

How can I restore individual message threads?! Some of those message threads are 5 years old đ Lost a weekâs worth of iMessages and donât know why â they were there a few hours ago. The command will ripple out and scrub them from everywhere. This is not the case if you accidentally delete your iMessages while connected to a network.

This level of redundancy means that losing one or more of your devices isnât a complete disaster â your iMessages will still be available to you on your secondary Apple devices and can be restored from the cloud. Theyâre on your MacBook, your iPad, your iPhone, on any other device you own which begins with â iâ and theyâre stored in encrypted form on Appleâs servers ( actually Amazon, but never mind that right now) in the cloud.

Under ideal circumstances, your iMessages should be on every apple device you own. By default, your Mac stores iMessages in ~/Library/Message.
