Our smartphones hold countless conversations and memories. Unfortunate circumstances, such as a lost, stolen, or malfunctioning phone can cause us to lose them all within seconds. It's also highly ...

Google Messages is getting a backup and restore option, and we were able to activate the feature. This should be a more convenient way to back up your chat history than the current Google One solution ...

If you buy a new phone, Google makes it easy to transfer most of your data, letting you pick up where you left off. However, text messages won't automatically be transferred to your new phone. So any ...

Want to preserve every last drunken text message for posterity? SMS Backup & Restore integrates with your email account, Google Drive, or Dropbox to back up your SMS messages in XML format. You can ...

This guide will explain how to recover lost data or deleted files and messages on Android. It’s a question we get asked all the time, and thankfully you have options. On Android deleted files just ...

Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

If you're anything like us, your Messages app is a pretty busy place. While still playing host to conversations with friends, family, and beyond, the humble default messaging app has also become the ...

The Android operating system stores text messages in the phone's memory, so if they're deleted, there's no way to retrieve them. You can, however, install a text ...