How to Backup SMS on Android

SMS, or text messages on your phone stores some important information that you do not want to lose. However, you cannot never imagine what accidents will occur tomorrow.

Just take an insurance for your text messages on phone, backup SMS.

How to backup SMS on Android phone?

Come up with the solutions here.

• Method 1. Backup SMS to computer from Android (Recommended)
• Method 2. Backup SMS from Android to Gmail
• Method 3. Backup SMS to SD card with SMS backup APK

Method 1. Backup SMS to computer from Android (Recommended)

The first way is the easiest and safest way to backup your text messages on Android. What you need is using Apeaksoft iOS Data Backup & Restore.

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Step 1. Download and launch the program

Download and install Android Data Backup & Restore on your computer. And then launch the program. Choose the third icon in the left list. Here you can choose the functions of "Device Data Backup" and "Device Data Restore".

Step 2. Connect Android phone to computer

Click "Device Data Backup" to back up your Android data to computer. Before backing up, make sure Android is connected to your computer. After that, the program can detect the Android device automatically.

Step 3. Backup SMS on Android

After connecting your computer, start to backup SMS on Android. Wait a few minutes, the process will end. Click Start to preview the backup data and choose SMS and text Messages you want to backup.

Method 2. Backup SMS from Android to Gmail

You may ask, does Google Drive backup SMS on Android?

No from Google.

However, you can back up SMS on Android to Gmail with SMS Backup+.

Step 1. Enable POP/IMAP on Gmail account

On your computer, sign into your Gmail account, click the gear icon on the right-hand to go to "Settings".

Go to "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab and click "Enable IMAP".

Step 2. Download SMS Backup+

Download SMS Backup+ from Google Play, install and run it on your Android phone.

SMS Backup+ is an efficient and free tool for users to backup SMS, call logs, and MMS, and also supports you restore SMS and call log.

Step 3. Backup SMS on Android to Google

Hit "Connect" to add your Google account to this app.

Get the backup settings to tick "Backup SMS", tap "Backup" and it will quickly sync all your text messages to your Gmail account.

Step 4. Check SMS on Gmail

After the backup process is done, visit your Gmail, and you will see a new label on the side: SMS. Click it and you will see all the backup SMS on Gmail.

Method 3. Backup SMS to SD card with SMS backup APK

Instead of computer or cloud, you can also transfer your SMS from Android phone to SD card. What you need is SMS Backup & Restore.

SMS Backup & Restore is one of the best APKs, which can back up your data into .XML format and automatically upload the backups to your email, etc. If you want to backup SMS on Android with SMS Backup & Restore, just click on "Backup", and then it will ask you where you want to save the data. The destinations you can choose Google Drive, Dropbox (recommended) and Local Backup.

Free download this app from Google Play, install and run it on your Android phone.

Step 1. Tap "BACKUP" > "Create New Backup" to make a new backup for your SMS messages.

Step 2. Rename the backup. Hit "OK" > "Yes" button to backup SMS on Android.

The backup is stored by default in the "SMSBackupRestore" folder of the first/default SD Card of the phone (/sdcard/SMSBackupRestore).

There are more similar SMS backup apps for Android phone.

Super Backup & Restore may be the fasted tool for you to backup SMS on Android. You can backup call history, applications, contacts, text messages and so on to your SD card. The usage of Super Backup & Restore is really simple. After launching this app, tap SMS and then tap Backup option. You can also delete your backups by this app.

Easy Backup and Restore is a free and features all-in-one backup tool we recommend for you to backup SMS on Android. It allows you backup your contacts, call logs, text messages, calendar and so on to your computer. Before you back up your data, make sure your Android is connected via a USB cable to your computer.

Helium is a pretty popular app which you can back up nearly all things exist on your phone. The usage of this app is really easy so that you can follow the prompts on screen to backup SMS on Android. The free version of this app may have some ads and lack a few additional functions while the premium vision can provide more features.

Moreover, when you get an iPhone, you could also transfer SMS from Android to iPhone here.