How to backup SMS messages with SMS Backup and Restore

Backing up messages on smartphone devices on cloud storage services will bring you many useful things, making it easy to find important information in old messages without needing to memory usage when saving them in the device. Currently there are quite a lot of support applications we can backup SMS, and SMS Backup and Restore on Android is one such application.

This application will save all Android device messages to email address, Dropbox or Google Driver storage service. And if you want to find any message, you will only need to access the application's item, even if the message is deleted from the device. In the following article, Network Administrator will guide you how to use SMS Backup and Restore to backup SMS on Android phones to Google Driver. For other services, we do the same.

Step 1:

First of all, download the SMS Backup and Restore application under the link below:

1. Download the Android SMS Backup and Restore application

Step 2:

After successful installation, you will come to the main interface of the application. Next, we choose Backup to set up customizations for SMS backup needs. In the Select Backup Folder interface, you can select the SMS storage folder. Here, I select the Default app folder.

Step 3:

Next, in the Create New Backup interface, you can choose backup content such as, Call Logs, multimedia messages (MMS), backup of conversations (Include MMS Message).

Scroll down, in the Local Backup and Upload section , we will see three new options Upload to Google Drive, Upload to Dropbox, and Upload to Email. Here, I will tick to Upload to Google Drive to backup SMS messages to Google Drive.

Step 4:

Once selected to Google Drive, the screen interface will switch to Google Drive Setup . First of all, in the Delete backups older than section , click the down arrow to select the time to delete the data, or you can select Do not Delete to not delete the data.

Step 5:

After selecting the data time, click on Log in to log in. In the Choose an account interface, we will select the Gmail account we are using on the device, or we can choose another account when clicking Add account. Click OK to continue.

Step 6:

Next, SMS Backup and Restore will ask you for permission to access the account . Click Allow . After that, the application will return to the main interface. Select the Only Upload on Wi-Fi option , then click Test to check if the application is fully set up.

Step 7:

Waiting for a few seconds, we will see a notification of the successful Test process. Click OK and click Save to save.

Step 8:

You will be taken back to the Create New Backup interface of SMS Backup and Restore. If you need to choose other services to store, you also do the same operations as above.

Next, users just need to click Backup . After that, you need to wait for the backup process to complete.

Thus, the steps to backup SMS messages on Android devices are completed with the SMS Backup and Restore application. Note, the interface of the application will vary depending on the operating system of the device, but the implementation is completely the same. If users have a large number of messages to back up, it is preferable to backup to Google Drive or Dropbox.

Refer to the following articles:

1. Instructions for backing up and storing data on your Android device securely

1. Simple way to transfer data from Android to iPhone

1. How to transfer data from iPhone to Android?

I wish you all success!