Thankfully, all hope is not lost for Windows computer users — there is a largely unknown alternative to using iTunes to back ...

If you do not have a recent iCloud backup or your Internet connection is slow, you can transfer everything from iPhone to ...

For Macs with older operating systems (like Mojave or earlier) or if you’re using a Windows PC, iTunes will be used instead of Finder to restore your iPhone’s data from a backup. 4.

You just need to know what to do, and do it quickly. Before iOS 16, you'd actually need to restore your iPhone from a backup to retrieve the message. Thankfully, this isn't the case anymore ...