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FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages

9to5Mac • Thu, 09 Apr 2026

A new report from 404 Media reveals that the FBI was able to recover deleted Signal messages from an iPhone by extracting data stored in the device’s notification database. Here are the details. more…

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A new report from 404 Media reveals that the FBI was able to recover deleted Signal messages from an iPhone by extracting data stored in the device’s notification database.

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