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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1928274" data-attributes="member: 83420">Always possible, Rod.&nbsp; Any sensible explanation needs to be considered.In fact, I had another idea which is this:At the beginning when I bought my wife's iPhone 14 Pro, I linked it to her MacBookPro such that she could send/receive Messages from there.&nbsp; She hardly ever used that method and, as iOS updates occurred, the link was lost - this is usual as you know &amp; requires setting up the link again.Now, for the short time the iPhone &amp; Mac were linked, her Mac Messages were synced to the iCloud, but never from her iPhone itself as that was turned OFF.So it occurred to me that maybe the what she got back from my turning ON the sync from iPhone to iCloud, were the messages from the early days when there was a sync from Mac Messages to iCloud.I temporarily thought I was being rather clever having thought that out myself - BUT - it turns out that the reclaimed messages were ALL recent and post-dated her lost link between iPhone and Mac.So I wasn't as clever as I thought<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite23" alt="(n)" title="Thumbs down&nbsp; &nbsp; (n)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(n)" />Anyway, explanations apart, she did get back around 10-15 &quot;self-deleted&quot; messages to her iPhone and she's a happy bunny!Ian</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1928274, member: 83420"] Always possible, Rod. Any sensible explanation needs to be considered. In fact, I had another idea which is this: At the beginning when I bought my wife's iPhone 14 Pro, I linked it to her MacBookPro such that she could send/receive Messages from there. She hardly ever used that method and, as iOS updates occurred, the link was lost - this is usual as you know & requires setting up the link again. Now, for the short time the iPhone & Mac were linked, her [U]Mac Messages[/U] were synced to the iCloud, but [U]never[/U] from her iPhone itself as that was turned OFF. So it occurred to me that maybe the what she got back from my turning ON the sync from iPhone to iCloud, were the messages from the early days when there was a sync from [U]Mac Messages[/U] to iCloud. I temporarily thought I was being rather clever having thought that out myself - BUT - it turns out that the reclaimed messages were ALL recent and post-dated her lost link between iPhone and Mac. So I wasn't as clever as I thought:((n) Anyway, explanations apart, she did get back around 10-15 "self-deleted" messages to her iPhone and she's a happy bunny! Ian [/QUOTE]

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