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I need text messages from my last phone. Is there any way to retrieve them?

I need important text messages from my last phone. i dont believed they were backed up. They have to be somewhere?

Posted on Jan 30, 2020 7:28 AM

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KiltedTim

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Posted on Jan 30, 2020 7:38 AM

No... The don't have to be somewhere.

If you don't have a backup of the old phone from when the messages were still present on it, they're gone.

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I need text messages from my last phone. Is there any way to retrieve them?

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