Google Messages App Backup. Learn how to back up and restore your messages on the WhatsApp help center. Your backups will not use your Google Drive storage for your personal Google Account. You can use your backup to restore your messages and attachments to WhatsApp. You can stop and delete backups, but you won't be able to look at the files inside the backup. Meet Messages, Google’s official app for texting (SMS, MMS) and chat (RCS). With Messages, you can communicate with anyone in any location with the reliability of texting and the richness of chat. Connect with friends and family through group messages, shared photos, videos, GIFs, emoji, and more. Intuitive and modern, Messages makes conversations easy, expressive, and fun. The most recent backup was 5:09 AM, for example. When I click on backup, I see a modal with 4 lines: apps, call history, device settings, and sms (50KB). Is it possible to access these files to retrieve a backup of the SMS file from a previous point in time or through the Google Messages app data?
Meet Messages, Google’s official app for texting (SMS, MMS) and chat (RCS). With Messages, you can communicate with anyone in any location with the reliability of texting and the richness of chat. Connect with friends and family through group messages, shared photos, videos, GIFs, emoji, and more. Intuitive and modern, Messages makes conversations easy, expressive, and fun. The backup process will start, and depending on how many messages you have, will take anywhere from a minute to a half hour (or longer!) to complete. It clips along at about a message per second. You don’t even have to wait until the process is finished to jump over to the Gmail account and check the progress.
The most recent backup was 5:09 AM, for example. When I click on backup, I see a modal with 4 lines: apps, call history, device settings, and sms (50KB). Is it possible to access these files to retrieve a backup of the SMS file from a previous point in time or through the Google Messages app data?
I accidentally deleted a large thread on my SMS text messages. My Android phone gets backed up to Google Drive. The backup is dated before I made this mistake. The backup shows that there are SMS messages backed up. How do I restore these SMS messages from this backup? I can only find information on how to use this backup to create a new phone. You will see SMS text messages towards the bottom of the screen along with the backup information; Additional Notes. If you do not have the option to backup SMS text messages, then there are third-party apps in the Google Play Store that may be able to backup and restore your messages. Backup includes messages sent and received. The backup process will start, and depending on how many messages you have, will take anywhere from a minute to a half hour (or longer!) to complete. It clips along at about a message per second. You don’t even have to wait until the process is finished to jump over to the Gmail account and check the progress. The primary addition offered by Google One is backing up multimedia messages (MMS) in apps like Messages. As a result, you can restore conversations when you set up a new Android phone.
