i Message is one of the necessary function for iPhone. In case the i Messages does not work ,we will not only cannot send message, but also cannot receive messages. This really cause us great convenience. Why the i Message does not work, and how to fix
First step: Please delete the older conversation in i Messages. Although that does not always solve your problem, at least you can try this first.
Second, you can turn on the switch of Set Data& Time automatically in Settings. This may help you to solve the i Message problems.
Third, you should check the network state. If your iPhone is in poor Wi-Fi or cellular connection, you may cannot receive the i Messages. To solve this problem, you can go to Settings>Cellular, turn off and turn on this switch again. If still not, you can reboot your iPhone. Generally, reboot will fix the cellular problem.
If the problem still not solved, you can go to Settings>General>Reset>Reset Network Settings
Fourth, check the settings of Messages. Go to Settings>Messages>Send&Receive, you will find the number, Apple ID, and email that you used to send and receive messages.
Fifth, update the iOS. You can update your system to updated iOS to see if this solve your problem.
How to recover the lost messages on iPhone?
If you accidentally delete your messages on iPhone, you do not need to worry, you can 100% recover data from iPhone with iPhone data recovery software.
What are the lost messages go?
After you remove the messages from iPhone, they still store on the phone and wait to be overwritten. As long as you have not write too many new data to replace the raw data, the raw data will always keep here. What you can do is to retrieve them before the overwritten occurs. While if you have backups of your iPhone, you also can recover the lost data from iPhone. But what you need to pay attention is that do not restore directly from your iTunes to your iPhone. If you do this, all your data on your iPhone will be replaced by the backup. So that the new data that have not been backed up will be replaced.
To avoid such kind of data loss, you’d better extract your data from the backups first. And then keep your data.
How to extract deleted messages from iTunes backup with recovery program?
First, you should have iTunes backups on your computer.
Second, Run H Data iPhone recovery software and choose “View and Restore files from iTunes backups”, choose the backup that you need to recover.
Third, click “SCAN” button to scan the backup.
Fourth, preview messages after scan.
Fifth, choose the messages that you need to recover, click each message, you can see all your conversation on the right side. On the right side, it display the contact name, number and the detailed conversations.
Tick the messages that you want to recover, click Export button.
Then you can check the recovered messages on the location you choose. They are kept in a file folder called Recover Messages.