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Hi,
Once you block someone on iPhone, their texts don’t show up in your Messages app at all.Apple doesn’t keep them in some “hidden folder” that you can open later — they’re just not delivered to you.
I learned this the hard way after blocking a contact and then unblocking them later. None of the messages they sent while blocked ever came through.
If you unblock the person, you’ll start receiving new texts from them again, but you won’t see anything they sent while they were blocked.
There’s really no recovery option unless you had a backup from before you blocked them and those messages were already on your phone.
So basically: blocked = gone. The only way around it is to check with the person directly and ask them to resend anything important.
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Hello,
Unfortunately, iPhones don’t save blocked messages anywhere you can access. Once you block someone, anything they send is filtered out by the system before it reaches your inbox. I once thought maybe they went into a “blocked messages” folder like email spam, but nope, Apple doesn’t do that.
When you unblock someone, you’ll start receiving their texts again, but you won’t suddenly see the ones they sent while they were blocked. The phone just treats them as if they were never delivered.
The only possible way to recover anything is if you had an iCloud or iTunes backup made at a time when those messages were already on your phone (before you blocked the contact). In that case, restoring the backup might bring them back — but that only works if they were actually saved before.
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