How To See Blocked Messages On iPhone
Once you block a number on your iPhone, you won’t be able to recover any calls, messages, or facetime from that contact. Blocking a number notifies your phone that you are not interested in the texts and calls from that particular contact. No section in the iPhone allows you to see the messages sent from blocked numbers. Your phone ensures you will never see any connection with the blocked number.
If you want to see messages from a blocked number on your iPhone, you have to unblock that phone number. In this article, we have listed some methods of how to see blocked messages on iPhone.
1- Unblock The Blocked Contact
You have to unblock the contact to see messages from that number. Here is how to do it.
- Open the setting App.
- Tap “ Phone.”
- Tap” Call Blocking and Identification.” Upon tapping that option, you will see a list of all the phone numbers you’ve blocked on your iPhone.
- Find the number you want to unblock and swipe it to the left.
- Tap “ Unblock.”
Now you can see messages from this number.
2- Use a Messages Filter
If you are receiving messages from unknown phone numbers that aren’t in your contact list, you can put a filter in the messages. There is an option on your phone that will sort the unwanted messages in another tab. Using a filter for unwanted messages makes managing such messages efficient without blocking them. Here is how you can turn on the Filter in messages:
- Start the setting App.
- Tap” Messages.”
- Find the option saying “ FIlter Unknown senders”.
- Swipe right on that option to turn on the messages filter.
Now you will see two tabs on the top of your messages—one for the contacts in your list and one for unknown senders.
3- From iCloud
If the iCloud backup was enabled before you blocked the contact and messages from it, you can recover the messages from the iCloud account. This method only works if iCloud backup was already turned On for messages. Here is how to do this:
- Tap on the Setting app on your iPhone.
- Tap on Apple ID and then select iCloud from the options. A list will appear that shows you all the things saved on iCloud.
- Turn Off the toggle for the Messages option, which was previously turned On.
- Tap on “Disable and Download Messages” from the pop-up that appeared. Now you can Download the messages to see the messages from the blocked numbers.
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