
WeChat is a free messaging and calling app that allows you to easily connect with your family and friends across countries. They contain a lot of data that can easily get lost after virus attacks, accidental deletion, jailbreak or after an iOS 12 update. It is, therefore, necessary to recover WeChat data on iPhone. This article explains the method of recovering lost WeChat messages from iPhone even with a backup file.
We recommend that you use iFonebox, a professional tool that allows users to preview and selectively recover app data in three ways: recover from iOS device, recover from iTunes backup and recover from iCloud backup. It comes to help you recover as many as 17 file types like contacts, notes, texts, photos, videos, voice memos, safari history, call logs, reminders, calendar events, weChat data, WhatsApp data and so on.
Let’s see some highly useful features:
- Quite easy to use all thanks to its user-friendly interface
- Three excellent working modes: recover from iOS device, recover from iTunes backup, recover from iCloud backup
- It’s suitable for a large variety of iPhone/iPad/iPod touch
- The trial version allows you to view all the recoverable data for free
- You can choose target data to back up instead of back the entire device up
- It’s 100% safe and the progress can be finished in a while
Before we start the instructions, you need to download the program to your computer. iFonebox has two available versions: Windows version and Mac version. Please make sure to install the right version for your computer. Once you have installed the program, next I will show you how to restore disappeared WeChat messages on iPhone.
Step one: Launch iFonebox
Connect your iPhone to the computer, in this interface, you'll see “Next” in blue area, click it to continue. It’s necessary to enable the flight mode and keep the USB cable connected stable during the progress.

Step two: Scan data
Take tests for example, it will scan automatically after you click the “WeChat Messages” icon, the duration depends on the amount of your data so it might take your some time, please wait patiently.

Step three: Get back data
After the scan completes, a list of WeChat messages will show up on your program interface. Just choose the items you want and click the “Recover to pc”.
