Today, people may have switched to instant messaging apps like WhatsApp and the gang. However, text message remains important and even irreplaceable. Some bank transactions use text message to send the challenge code. Popular services, like Google, also use text message to send the validation code on the registration process.

While text message is important, you can also lose your text messages on Android phone for unexpected causes. From accidental deletion, app crash or even virus attack. Don’t worry too much if you lost important text messages on your Android phone. There is always a chance to get them back using the right tool. PhoneRescue is one of the text message recovery tools we recommend.

How can deleted message be restored?

Well, it is an interesting enough question.

If you deleted a message from your Android phone, the actual data of the message is not really deleted from your phone. Instead, it still around for a certain period until it is overwritten by other data. Text message recovery tools like PhoneRescue works by scanning your phone to see if the message you mean is still around. If they found it, then you can recover it.

Root is not required to recover deleted text messages using PhoneRescue (depending on the scanning option you choose). You just need to install it on your computer, launch it and connect the Android phone you want to recover the deleted messages from. PhoneRescue is a professional tool, yet extremely easy to use. Its user interface is pretty simple and clean. Once the scanning process is done, it allows you to preview the lost messages and selectively recover the message you want.

This tool has a great device support, works on the vast majority of smartphone brands. From Samsung, LG, Sony, and so on. It works on Android 4.0 and the newer versions. In addition to text message, this tool also supports different data types recovery. Such as contacts, photos, videos, app documents and even WhatsApp messages. While you can use it to recover lost messages caused by accidental deletion or app crash, recovery from different data loss scenarios is also possible.

In addition to Android, you can also use PhoneRescue to retrieve deleted text messages on iPhone.

Okay, how to use this tool?

Well, here is how to recover deleted text messages using PhoneRescue.

How to use PhoneRescue to recover deleted text messages on Android

First and foremost, you need to install the app of PhoneRescue on your computer before being being able to use it. This app is available for Windows and Mac. You can download the binary file of PhoneResue on its official website. Double-click the downloaded binary file to install it on your computer. On the appearing dialog, click the Click to Recover Android Data button since you want to use it to recover deleted text messages on Android.

Once PhoneRescue is installed on your computer, launch it and connect your Android phone using a USB cable. PhoneRescue will automatically detect your Android phone. If you find PhoneRescue is unable to detect your Android phone, try to restart the app (close and re-open). This issue typically happens on the first launch right after the installation. You will see the PhoneRescue app opens on your Android phone once it is successfully connected.

Select the data you want to recover and click the Next button. If you only want to recover text messages, you can untick all options but Messages. PhoneRescue allows you to recover diverse types of data which are essential for Android users, such as photos, contacts, WhatsAp messages, Line, app documents, music, videos, etc And personal data like messages, contacts, call logs, calendars can be directly restoreed to Android phones for instant use.

Wait a second while PhoneRescue is analyzing your phone. Once done, select one of the available scanning options. PhoneRescue offers to scanning options: Quick Scan and Deep Scan. You can choose Deep Scan to recover older message deletions or Quick Scan to recover newly message deletions.

One thing. If you choose the Deep Scan mode, PhoneReque will automatically root your Android phone. If you want to recover text messages without root, you can select the Quick Scan option.

PhoneRescue will start analyzing your phone once you select one of the scanning options. Don’t disconnect your phone until PhoneResque is done analyzing your phone. The analyzing process can take minutes, depending on the scanning option you chose and the amount of messages. Once the analyzing process is done, you will see the following window.

By default, all of the analyzed messages will be selected. You can untick the Messages option on the upper left corner to unselect all messages if you only want to recover some messages. You can make use of the search feature to find the messages you want to recover. Click the recover button at the bottom-right corner to recover the selected messages.

The verdict

PhoneRescue is a recovery tool which you can use to recover deleted data on your Android phone, including text message. You can use it to recover newly deleted text messages without rooting your Android device. In addition to message, you can also this tool to recover other data like contacts, photos, app documents, and so on. PhoneRescue is capable of retrieving lost messages on all Android phones with the highest data recovery success rate even without any backups in advance. You can install the PhoneRescue app on either Mac or Windows. PhoneRescue has an extremely clean interface that is easy to use. For more about text message recovery on Android, you can visit official guide of PhoneRescue. PhoneRescue is a paid tool, but you can try it for free to figure out if it really works.