Ways to Recover Deleted Messages on Android

The reason why SMS messages disappear is often due to some cases such as accidentally deleting them, phone data errors, someone borrowing your phone and then deleting the messages,... However, do not worry too much when SMS messages are lost. Because all SMS messages will be completely restored thanks to the 2 methods instructed below.

One thing to note is that you should restore SMS messages as soon as possible after they were deleted, so that the message data can be recovered as completely as possible.

How to Recover Deleted Messages on Android

Restore with MobiKin Doctor software

MobiKin Doctor software on PC will be your "savior" in case of deleted SMS messages. MobiKin Doctor is a recovery software that supports more than 2,000 popular Android devices today (click here, select Tech Spec to see the list of supported Android devices).

Step 1: Find and download the MobiKin Doctor application and then install it.

Step 2: At the software interface, select Android Recovery to activate the data recovery feature on Android phones.

Step 3: You connect the phone that needs to restore SMS messages to the computer via cable.

Step 4: Tap Allow on your phone (if available)

Step 5: At the software interface on the PC, select Messages (to restore SMS messages). In addition, you can select other items to restore such as:

- Call Logs (call history)

- Contacts

Photos

- Audios (sound files)

Step 6: Select the messages to restore or you can click on Messenges (on the left) to select all previously deleted messages and click on "Recovery" to restore.

Recover deleted SMS messages right on Android phone

In addition to the above method, you can also restore deleted SMS messages using Google backup files. However, if you want to use this method, your phone must have the automatic backup feature enabled first.

To check if your phone has SMS backup, follow the steps below (instructions are done on Samsung galaxy phone, other devices do the same).

Step 1: In the "Settings" section of your phone, select "Google", select "Backup".

Step 2: If your phone does not have the "Backup to Google Drive" feature enabled, it means your phone has never backed up SMS messages and this guide cannot be applied.

Step 3: If your phone has backed up SMS messages, you will see Backup... Select it, you will see SMS text messages were backed up before what period of time

Step 4: Now you need to restore the phone, then log back into your Google account and choose to restore from backup. In the example above, it is "SM-N950F Backup".

Note: SMS backed up on the current Android version will not be able to be restored on Android updates lower or higher than it. For example: You have an SMS backup on Android 9, but you want to restore SMS messages on your Android device, but it is not possible.

Khanh Son (Synthesis)

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