How to Spy on Text Messages for iPhone and Android Phone
Last Updated on November 1, 2023 by Jason Ben
Spy on Text Messages of others is not a good option for us. However, you must want to keep your child from danger and want to know if your spouse is treating on you, then, Spying on Text Messages seems reasonable.
Children are always venerable, especially children of nowadays. With the development of the internet, they are more likely to get in touch with bad things such as violence, eroticism or addition to online games. As parents, we always want to protect them from any kind of bad thing, and it is reasonable that parents want to know what’s happening in their life. However, when entering adolescence, they may have their own secrets and refuse to share everything with parents. At the same time, Parents may have thousands of questions in their mind.
"Why is she so upset recently? Does everything at school go well?" "Why does she begin to make up lately?" "Does she have a boyfriend?" "Is her boyfriend a good guy or not?" "Why does my little boy always lock himself in his room?" "What is he doing in there?" "My son got hurt on his face yesterday, did he fight with others or just as he said simply because he fell down when going back home from school?"
If you and your children trust each and can communicate without any difficulties. You are lucky. It’s a very good choice to talk equally with them and help them go through the adolescence period by providing some useful advice or experiences. But some parents may have a very strained relationship with their children, they don’t know how to communicate with each other friendly. Meanwhile, they are really worried about their children and want to secretly know what’s going on in their life. They choose to spy text messages on children’s iPhones. Maybe it’s their last choice but it’s really a very good way to know what are they getting in touch with, who are they making friends with, what’s happening in their daily life etc..
In this article, I will show you some workable ways to Spy on Text Messages for iPhone and Android
Guide List
#1 mSpy
mSpy is one of the best Spy app for iPhone and Android Phones on the internet. You can track all text messages on the target phone (iPhone and Android) with a very clear, easy-to-use and even sophisticated dashboard. With the well-organized information and delicate calculation, you can get the focus easier and faster, such as new call, new message, recent 5 most calling contacts, recent 5 most messaging contacts, and last known location.
As for Messaging, you can not only track txt message but also messages sent by most popular Social Apps here is a list for you:
| Facebook Lite | Messenger | ||
| Messenger Lite | Snapchat | Skype | LINE |
| Viber | Kik | Tinder | |
| Hangouts | Tumblr | Telegram |
There are some unique features with mSpy that might interest you.
- Blocking Calls: you can set a list of unwanted numbers which will be blocked no matter calling in or out.
- Audio Recording: you can trigger the recording feature to record ambient voice for 1 to 20 minutes.
- Blocking Websites: if you don't want your kids or your employees to browse some websites, add them to the block-list.
- Keylogger: you will have a full list of all text that the user type on a keyboard on the target phone which is very useful.
Compared with other spying tool, mSpy has additional features of managing how the phone should be used. So it is more suitable for monitoring your kids' phones. And of course, it is very professional in monitoring phone text messages, especially the Keylogger features which allows you to spy on all text that the user types on his/her phone no matter what social app he/she is using.
mSpy Phone Monitor
Track Android phone and tablet, iPhone and iPad remotely and secretly! All information is visible to you!
Monitor all social media apps, FB, IG, Twitter, Snapchat, etc
View SMS/IMs, call logs, contacts, emails, browser history
Record every keystroke and set alarm for specific keywords
#2 FlexiSpy
FlexiSpy is a very professional Phone hacker and tracker. It is very similar to mSpy while FlexiSpy still has its own unique features. Just like other phone Spy app, FlexiSpy focuses a lot on messaging, you can not only spy on SMS, MMS messages but also on iMessage, Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber, Messenger, Skype, Hangouts, KIK, Tango, Snapchat, Telegram, and more.
You can view all activities in a timeline making it more intuitive for you to understand the whole actions. AND my favorite feature is Alert, by setting a watchlist contact and watchlist keyword, you will get notifications immediately when the target phone is contacting someone in the list or they are talking about something in the list.
Besides Messages, you can spy on more data on the target phone, such as Calls, Locations, Intercept Phone Calls, Capture Screenshots, Smart Capture, Keylogger, Photos, Video Preview, Voices, Documents, Email, Contacts, Browser History, Calendars, Clipboard, WiFi Logger, App Block, Downtime, App Activity.
FLEXISPY Phone Hacker
Make secrets inside Android & iPhone visible to you
- Listen to Calls
- Record surroundings
- Record VoIP Calls
- Read email & SMS
- Track GPS location
- Check web chats
- View media files
- See Web Cam
How to Spy on Deleted iPhone Text Message
Let me introduce how to spy on someone’s deleted text messages on the iPhone. I will show you how to extract text messages from the target iPhone's iTunes or iCloud Backup files. AND you can even recover deleted text messages from the iPhone device. Read more: Read Someone's Text Messages without Installing Software on Their Phone
#1 How to Spy on Text Messages via iTunes Backup
Step 1 Install and run iPhone Data Recovery or Android Data Recovery, Here We will take iPhone Data Recovery for example.
Spy Text on iPhone. Download iPhone Data Recovery as Below:
Spy Text on Android iPhone. Download Android Data Recovery as Below:
Step 2 Choose Recover from iTunes Backup and then click Start.
Step 3 Choose the data type that you want to spy on. Then click Next.
Step 4 Select an iTunes backup to scan then click Scan. It will go to scanning process. Please wait patiently, it may take some time.
Step 5 After scanning, you can see the messages on the iPhone.
#2 How to Spy on Text Message via iCloud Backup
Step 1 Install and run iPhone Data Recovery or Android Data Recovery.
Spy Text on iPhone. Download iPhone Data Recovery as Below:
Spy Text on Android iPhone. Download Android Data Recovery as Below:
Step 2 Click Recover from iCloud Backup then click Start.
Step 3 Same with the previous method, choose the data types you want in this step. Then click Next.
Step 4 Sign in your Apple ID and password.
Step 5 Choose a backup and then click Next. Same with previous method, it will go to scanning process. Please be patient for the scanning may take some time.
Step 6 When scanning process is done, you will see the message contents on your children’s phone.
⚠ Learn more about: Spy on Text Message via Retrieving Messages from iCloud Backup
How do you feel the above two methods? By using above two methods, you don’t need to install any spy text app on your kids iPhone or touch their iPhone, so you are 100% safe and don’t need to worry about that they will know you are spying on them. Moreover, you can spy someone’s text messages for free. The aformentioned program will not charge any fee if you only view the messages without saving them on your computer.
FAQs
Yes! You just need to use a recovery program like iOS Data Recovery or Android Data Recovery to restore all deleted text messages in one click. That's how easy it is.
Yes! Text messages on Android can be hidden through the archive feature. However, it might not be possible for iPhones as such a feature is not available as of the moment.