With the plethora of messaging apps available, the messages you receive on the native Messages app on your iPhone often go unnoticed. If you’re like us, you often find it difficult to search for something important in the sea of irrelevant messages that you receive on a daily basis. While you can delete these messages from your iPhone, sometimes you may accidentally delete a text that was of some importance.

Luckily, Apple lets you save deleted messages in a section called Recently Deleted, which you can access later if you need them. In this post, we’ll explain everything you need to know about Recently Deleted Messages on iPhone.

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Recently Deleted is a special section in the Messages app that hosts all the messages you’ve deleted from your iPhone in the past month. Any messages you delete from your iMessage account will appear in this section. This includes text messages, pictures, voice messages, or files shared by you or others.