Guide to Restore Deleted SMS or Text Messages on Android

Accidentally deleted some of your important SMS or Text messages from your Android powered smartphone? Don’t Worry, today in this guide we’ll show you how you can restore your SMS back on your smartphone. This happens to most of us, when we accidentally deleted our saved messages from Android inbox. This thing happened for me twice and thanks to SMS Backup+ android application to easily restore my messages. There are many methods by which you can backup your messages and restore them easily in future. SMS Backup+ is a software with one such awesome feature, which you can use on your device to restore the messages directly to your phone.

In this guide, i am going to guide you through a simple way by which you can backup your SMS on your Gmail account and restore them easily anytime without any problem. The app allows you to Automatically backup SMS, MMS and call log entries using a separate label in Gmail Account. From there you can easily restore SMS and call log entries back to the phone.

Restore Deleted SMS or Text Messages on Android

How to Restore Deleted SMS

Open the Google play store application on your Android smartphone and search for the SMS Backup+ and install it. You can find the direct download link of the application at the end of this tutorial. Once the app is installed, run it and from the very first screen of the application tap on the “Connect” button to connect your Gmail account with the application. See the screen shot below:-

Backup SMS

On the next screen the application will ask you to authorize your Gmail account with the application. Tap on the OK button to connect the app with your Gmail account to start the backup process on your Gmail account.

Connect your Gmail Account

Now the application is connected with your account and you are ready to take the backup of your SMS. Tap the “Backup” button and the SMS backup will start on your android smartphone.

Start Backup

Once the SMS backup process is finished on your phone, Go to your Gmail Account and here you will see the two new folders for your SMS and call history backup. Open both the folder and you can see all your SMS messages and call logs.

Backup Labels

In future, if you want to Restore the deleted messages on your phone, go back to the application and Tap on the Restore button and all messages and call logs are restored on your android smartphone.

Download SMS Backup + App here