There are text messages you don’t want to lose. You can back them up using your phone’s native apps or go with a third-party option.

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There are text messages you don’t want to lose. You can back them up using your phone’s native apps or go with a third-party option.

If you don't want to send a text message right away, you can schedule it to go out whenever you want. We'll show you how to do it on your Android phone.

Before We Begin First, to schedule a text message, you need the Google Messages app installed on your Android phone.

After you buy a new phone, you don't want to lose your text messages. Here's how to move text messages to a new phone so that doesn't happen.

Did you accidentally delete an important text message on your Android phone? If so, you can try to recover your message using a Google Drive backup (if you have one) or a third-party method.

How to recover deleted Android text messages with Cloud backups If you use Google Drive to back up your phone, you might be able to retrieve the latest copies of your messages before deletion.