If you've accidentally deleted an important text message on your Android phone, don't worry. You can recover your message using a Google One backup (if you have one). Otherwise, you can use a third-party app
How to Recover Deleted Text Messages on Android;
There are two options for recovery, depending on whether you backed up your phone before losing your messages or not.
If you created a backup to Google One before you lost your messages, simply restore the backup and all your SMS and MMS messages will be back.
But if you haven't created a backup, there are several Android message recovery apps.
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Android: Restore Deleted Text Messages with Backup
If you have enabled Google Drive backups on your Android phone, you can restore the backup to recover deleted text messages.
However, to do this, you will need to factory reset your phone. This means you will have to erase all the content on phone .
- If you choose this method, back up important files on your Android phone.
- Then, start the restore process.
- Open the Settings app on your phone. In Settings, at the bottom, tap “ System .”
- On the “System” screen, tap “Reset Options”.
- On the “Reset Options” screen, tap “Erase All Data (Factory Reset)”. Keep in mind that this will erase all of phone .
- Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the reset.
- Then, start setting up your phone from scratch.
- When your phone asks you to sign in with a Google Account, select the account you used to back up your phone. This will give you access to your Google One backup.
- Then, choose to restore your data from a backup.
- Select your Google One backup and enable the “SMS Messages” option.
Once the process is complete, you will recover all your messages on your Android phone.
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Restore deleted SMS messages on Android without backup
In case you haven't created a backup, you can use a third-party Android data recovery app
For example, there are the apps Dr. Fone Android Data Recovery and PhoneRescue. Almost all of these apps work in the same way. They scan your Android phone for traces of lost messages and then allow you to restore those messages.
There's no guarantee that your text messages will be recovered with these apps, and they can also be quite expensive. But if you don't have a backup , you don't have many options.
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If you ultimately fail to recover deleted messages on your Android phone, it's important to make a habit of backing up SMS regularly. This way, you'll never miss an important text in the future.
Source: www.howtogeek.com
