Hi all, basically had this problem for the past couple of days and was wondering if anyone could help:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7540060?start=0&tstart=0
A week ago my iPhone SE spazzed out and all my photos disappeared, but then magically started reappearing. Didn't think too much about it and continued to go about my day since I didn't think I had lost anything. A couple of days later I noticed that I haven't received any text messages, and when I checked I noticed that everything in my inbox was gone. I look at my storage settings and see that messages is taking up 19GB of my space, so they have to be in there right? Also, I can't see any text messages that I have received and sent out.
I hadn't updated to the newest iOS (was running on 10.1 I believe), so today I backed up my phone and updated to 10.2.1. Still nothing in my iMessages inbox. My last two options is to restore from the backup I just made or to go to the Apple Store. I want to try to restore from backup, but I'm paranoid that I will lose my photos, can someone reassure me that it's included in the backup I just made?