Originally Posted by
Pingerced People who come to this thread are trying to find a solution of retrieving deleted iMessages, however, nothing meaningful is found here.
Unless you have a backup of the device WITH the messages included, there's no way. And even then, to get them back requires a complete restore of the backup ... there is no option to restore just the messages, for example.
The only other way to access those messages would be on a different device, with which continuity was set up prior to the deleting of the messages. Again, they will be viewable from that other device, but there is no process for getting them back on the original device.
So that's why Sean's suggestion is the best way to go on this.