How to Recover Deleted Text Messages on Android

If your primary means of communication is via text, there may have been times when you accidentally deleted a text message on your Android phone. If you recently deleted a text message containing important information from yourself or the sender and want to get it back, let’s look at how to recover or retrieve deleted text messages on Android.

Retrieving deleted text messages on Android depends on the platform. Most messaging apps do not have an option to retrieve deleted text messages, so the chances are low. However, not all hope is lost as your carrier might have them, or you may have archived them instead of deleting.

Recover Messages on Google Messages

While there’s no way to recover deleted messages onGoogle Messages, there’s still a chance that you archived a message instead of deleting it. Here’s how to restore them.

Retrieve Deleted Messages on Samsung Messages

Samsung Messages has a Recycle bin feature where the app stores deleted messages for 30 days before deleting them permanently. Here’s how to restore your messages using the same:

Recover Deleted Text Messages on WhatsApp

The process of retrieving messages on WhatsApp depends on if you want to retrieve a deleted message or if you want to restore messages you lost after switching to a new phone.

Using Notification history

While there’s no way to retrieve a deleted message on WhatsApp, you can still check the text message they sent usingAndroid’s Notification Historyfeature.

Using WhatsApp Backup

If you previously used WhatsApp’s backup and restore functionality to back up your chats, you can restore them on to your new device with ease. We have an exclusive guide onhow to see deleted WhatsApp messagesthat you may want to check out.

If you still have WhatsApp installed on your old phone, back up your messages by navigating toSettings>Chats>Chat backup>Back up. You can then try restoring the backup when you log in to the app on your new phone. On your new phone, installWhatsApp> wait until you get to the backups page >Restoreto recover all messages.

Retrieve Deleted Messages on Android by Factory Reset

This may sound weird but if you have Google backup turned on, there’s a chance you can retrieve the deleted message. Android usuallybacks up text messagesalong with other data, and if the backup date is older than the date of the message that got deleted, you can try factory resetting your device. Mind you, we don’t recommend this but if the situation is dire, you can give it a try.

And those are some of the ways you can recover deleted messages on an Android phone. Do you know any other helpful methods to retrieve deleted messages, let us know in the comments below.

Abubakar Mohammed

Abubakar covers Tech on Beebom. Hailing from a Computer Science background, the start of his love for Tech dates back to 2011, when he was gifted a Dell Inspiron 5100. When he’s not covering Tech, you’ll find him binge-watching anime and Tech content on YouTube, hunting heads in competitive FPS games, or exploring Teyvat in Genshin Impact. He has previously worked for leading publications such as Fossbytes, How-To Geek, and Android Police.

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