4 Best Solutions to Retrieve Deleted Texts on Samsung Galaxy/Fold Phone
Last Updated on October 27, 2023 by Joanna LakeLast week, my friend Micheal asked me, “I have bought a new Samsung Galaxy S23 and I want to transfer text messages from my S21. While I deleted all text messages on the old device before successful transfer. Can I retrieve those texts?”
Of course, we shouldn’t delete texts before successfully transferring to a new device. Don’t Panic if you are encountering a similar problem, here I will show you 4 best solutions to retrieve deleted text messages on any Samsung phone.
Now you need to act as fast as possible because the deleted text isn’t immediately erased from your Android phone before being overwritten by a new file.
To be more specific, the space used to occupy will be marked as blank in the memory, once this blank space is taken up by a new file, your lost texts will be impossible to retrieve anymore.
Hence, please STOP using your phone immediately once you realise you have deleted texts by mistake.
#1Solution 1. Retrieve Deleted Texts on Samsung from Samsung Cloud
With Samsung Cloud, your data is always safe even if your device is broken or stolen. It is a reliable and powerful service to back up, sync and restore data among different Samsung phone devices.
So it is so lucky for you to have enabled messages backup feature with Samsung Cloud. With several clicks, you will have all deleted messages back.
Step 1: Launch Settings app on your Samsung phone.
Step 2: Find Samsung Cloud option.
Step 3: Go to Backup and Restore and tap Restore Data.
Step 4: Select to restore Messages.
Technically speaking, you have all your messages back now. If you don’t, turn to other solutions.
#2Solution 2. Retrieve Deleted Texts on Samsung from Samsung Backup
Samsung Kie/Kie3, similar to iTunes, is an official software of Samsung devices, on which you can transfer, back up and restore data on Samsung phones.
For those who have backed up their Samsung phone with kies, they can restore the backup to retrieve deleted texts.
First: Connect your Samsung phone to your PC.
Second: Open Kies ⟶ Back up/Restore ⟶ Restore Data, click the bar that under Select the backup file to restore and choose a backup file on the drop-down menu.
Third: Tick the checkbox and click the Restore button. If you see some settings, make the decision based on your needs. Then click the Complete button and you have successfully recovered deleted text on Samsung.
#3Solution 3. Retrieve Deleted Texts on Samsung from Mobile Carrier
Some mobile carriers store call history and SMS history for users. So why don’t try to login to your carrier’s account on its official site and check if you can get something back.
Next Step:
- View Deleted Text Messages Online with Verizon
- View Deleted Text Messages Online with Cricket Wireless
- View Deleted Text Messages Online with U.S. Cellular
- View Deleted Text Messages Online with T-Mobile
- View Deleted Text Messages Online with Metro PCS
- View Deleted Text Messages Online with AT&T
- View Deleted Text Messages Online with Sprint
It is just a list of some most popular mobile carriers, if you could not find your mobile carrier, search on Google, then you will find it.
#4Solution 4. Retrieve Deleted Texts on Samsung with Samsung Texts Recovery
If you don't have any backup on samsung cloud or samsung kies, another method is to retrieve deleted texts on samsung with Samsung Texts Recovery.
Samsung Texts Recovery is a professional Android text messages retrieving application. Just install it on your PC and start retrieving your deleted texts.
Note: Turn on the USB Debugging Mode
Before starting to recover your data, you need to make sure the USB debugging mode is enabled. Follow the instructions to turn on the USB debugging mode, then click the OK button. If it has been enabled, you can just go ahead and skip this part.
Learn more about Enable USB Debugging on Android
Step 1: Connect Your Samsung Galaxy to PC
Open UltData for Android > Recover Lost Data. When finishing connecting your Samsung phone to the computer with USB, the application will automatically detect your device.
Step 2: Scan your Samsung Phone for the Deleted Text Messages
To save scanning time, you might need to choose the file type you want to retrieve before starting scanning.
Take retrieving text messages for an example, you can choose Message as file type and then click the Start button to start the process.
Step 3: Retrieve Samsung deleted text messages
After the program finishes scanning files as you selected, here you can preview both deleted and existing text messages on your phone.
The next thing you need to do is just check the boxes before text messages you want and hit the Recover button. By doing this, the application will retrieve the deleted text messages to your PC.
What you should do next:
To avoid losing text messages on Android phones, you need to regularly backup your precious text messages. So read 1 Click Backup SMS from Android to PC