How to Recover Deleted Text Messages on Your Phone
In
this time when smartphones rule the world, text messages have become an
integral part of our lives. It is the most used method of communication and is
also one of the easiest ways as well. When there is something that is required
to be passed on to someone but it is not that important, is when we resort to
text messages instead of calls. It also gives us physical evidence of all the
conversation that has happened. It brings another issue of losing these
messages due to accidental deletion, software problems and other problems.
Now
if you are really in need to bring back deleted texts messages on your phone
this tutorial will surely help you. We will teach you the ways to recover these
text messages which has been deleted from our device. So look no further, here
are a few applications you can use to recover deleted messages from your phone.
For Android: FonePaw
Android Data Recovery App
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Download the FonePaw application on your computer – it is
available for both windows and Mac operating systems.
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Connect your phone to the computer – do not worry about your
phone getting hacked as it will be protected throughout the process.
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Turn on the android’s USB Debugging setting – the option is
available in the settings option.
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Choose the messages to recover – once the connection is
established successfully, tick on the message box and click next.
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Authorize the application to analyze the device – when asked
whether to provide the application access to scan files, click allow when the
pop-up window appears.
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Preview and recover – once the application scans the files, you
get the choice to read through the messages and choose which messages to
recover.
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The recovered messages will be saved in CSV and HTML formats on
your computer. Make sure to back up the messages regularly to not lose them.
Android Data Recovery
Instructions:
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Download and install the application depending on the operating
system you use – it is available for Windows and iOS.
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Now connect the phone to your computer – make sure to have at
least twenty percent battery left on your phone before going through the
process.
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Enable USB Debugging – the phone will
have the option to enable USB Debugging for all Android phones in its setting.
Go to the settings and enable it so that the application can work its magic.
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Choose the type of files to restore – a menu comes, from where
you can choose the type of files you can restore ranging from text messages,
what’s app messages, attachments, documents, audio, gallery and more. Tick on
text messages.
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Allow the device to scan – a pop-up window might appear if your
Android device is rooted, for you to allow the application to access the files
on your phone.
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View and retrieve deleted messages – once the application is
allowed to scan files, you will be delivered with the preview of the deleted
messages which you can look at and choose the ones you want to retrieve.
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This process allows us to retrieve messages from locked phones
too, proving it to be a very important tool.
Android SMS Recovery
Instructions:
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Download the application – options to download the application
securely are available for both iOS and Windows.
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Connect the phone to your PC – leave at least twenty percent
charge on your phone before connecting it to the PC.
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USB Debugging – go to the setting of the Android phone and turn
on the USB Debugging option if it is not yet on.
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Choose what to scan – if the phone have supports MMS, choose not
just the messages option but also the message attachments option too. This
allows you to retrieve both texts and MMS’.
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Oblige to the Super Users request – a pop-up window might appear
asking for the user to allow the application to scan through the files on the
phone. Click on allow.
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Choose the messages and attachments to recover – once the
scanning is done by the application; choose whichever messages you want to
retrieve. The deleted messages will be shown in red colour for you to preview.
Select the messages and click on the recover bottom on the lower right corner
to retrieve it.
For iPhone/iOS: Contact
Phone Provider:
One of the ways to
retrieve deleted messages is to call the phone provider. They might in some
cases have stored the messages, and it will be the easiest way to access the
messages that you have lost. Sometimes it may be as easy as logging into your
online account.
iTunes Backup
Instructions:
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If the option to back up the messages in iTunes is turned on,
this method will be very feasible.
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Connect your phone to the PC using which you sync the phone.
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iTunes will be opened automatically in most cases. If not, open
it manually.
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iTunes will show an option to choose your phone on the top right
corner. Choose it and select the summary option.
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Now click on the ‘Restore Backup’ button to restore all the lost
data inclusive of the messages to your iPhone.
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All the data that had been backed up previously will be added to
your phone in a few minutes.
iCloud Backup
Instructions:
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Open icloud and login to your Apple account.
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Click on the option called ‘text messages’. It will show all the
messages that have been backed up.
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Search for the messages you want to retrieve.
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Now open the iCloud setting on you iPhone and choose the open to
turn off text messages.
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A pop-up will appear, and you have to choose the option ‘Keep on
My iPhone’.
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Now turn on the text messages and click on merge. Wait for a few
minutes, and all the messages you wanted to restore will be back on your iPhone.
Third Party
Applications
There are some
applications available online which will help you restore the messages you have
lost. PhoneRescue by iMobie, Tenorshare iPhone Data Recovery and WonderShare Dr
Fone for iOS are a few applications you can use to retrieve lost messages from
your iPhone.
Conclusion
Now, it isn’t that
hard to retrieve phone text messages with the help of the above software surely
you can do it all by yourself. It is not impossible to restore lost data and
there are a number of ways for us to retrieve the lost messages from our
phones. But none of the methods beat the typical good old method of backing up
text messages on a regular basis. This saves us a lot of time and energy. But
even if you have not, fear not, there are a lot of ways to recover lost data.
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