How to Retrieve SMS Messages on Samsung Galaxy S10/ S10+/ S10e

The release of Samsung Galaxy S10 marks a decade of Galaxy S phones. It's an outstanding phone for 2019, but what are your choices when SMS text messages are missing from the Messages app. You have four options to recover text messages from Samsung Galaxy S10 (Plus) & S10e.

Samsung Galaxy S10, like any smartphone, is vulnerable to losing text messages stored on it. You just cleared some spam threads from the Messages inbox, only to find that you accidentally deleted the one that's important to you. Or let's say you updated your phone without backing up the data, and now you can't find any conversations of text messages. Regardless of the reasons, you still stand a good chance of retrieving SMS on Samsung S10 phone (S10 Plus, S10e), and finally get the exact dates and the numbers from which the messages were sent or received from.

Option 1: Samsung S10 Messages Recovery via Samsung Cloud

Samsung Cloud service has made restoring texts on Galaxy S10 a straightforward exercise. Make sure you had the messages backed up during the time that the text messages were on your phone. It's easier to do this on the device.

• Grab your Samsung Galaxy S10, unlock it.
• On the Home screen, open Settings app.
• Tap Accounts and backup > Samsung Cloud > Restore.
• Tap on Messages to select it.
• Tap Restore Now to finish the restore.

The lost or deleted messages and attachments should be in the Messages app.

Option 2: Restore Smart Switch Backup to Get Deleted SMS on Galaxy S10 Phone

If there's local backup on the computer done by Samsung's smart switch app, then you can easily restore deleted text messages to Samsung Galaxy S10 by going to the Restore function.

• Launch Smart Switch on your PC or Mac to which you ever backed up Galaxy S10 content.
• Hook up your phone to computer.
• Click Restore.
• Click Restore Now, or you can click Select your backup data if you desire to restore another backup.
• In the Allow Access window on the mobile, tap Allow.
• Wait for the restoring process is completed. Click OK.

Option 3: Recovering Samsung S10 Texts in the Phone Memory

What if you don't have a Samsung Cloud backup of text messages nor a local backup of the device? No fret, there's something simple you can try that might just recover deleted text messages from Samsung S10 internal storage, if you're lucky.

You could perform the recovery using Android Data Recovery. The bottom line is that the SMS messages you lost or deleted still reside in the phone memory, and literally, unless they're overwritten, they can exist forever.

This is the popular method that many users use it to find lost SMS conversations and attachments in Samsung Galaxy S10/ S10+/ S10e, and then recover onto the computer. The software can access phone's SIM and internal memory, and let user search for the messages users texted which makes it for them to get back the temporary contacts without saving them in their phonebook, as well as any messages history information.

Before you can take these steps, though, you'll need to download the program and install it on a PC or Mac first. After that, here's how to retrieve messages that were deleted from Samsung S10 (Plus) & S10e, without backup files.

• Once open the tool, choose "Android Data Recovery" mode.



• When prompted, connect Samsung Galaxy S10 to computer.
• On your phone, turn on USB debugging. Follow on-screen steps to do this.



• Once the connection has been built, you'll see the kinds of data listed on the window. Click "Messages" and "Messages Attachments" and move on.



• Now, you'll be required to root your Samsung S10. Click Rooting Tools button, and the pretty safe KingoRoot utility will get this done. Step-by-step guide for the task: How to root and unroot an Android phone or tablet



• Wait for the scanning process to get complete.
• Now, once you're in the scanning results interface, select the lost SMS you tend to retrieve.
• Click Recover button to save text conversations in CSV & HTML onto computer.



All models are supported: SM-G977U, SM-G977T, SM-G977P, SM-G975U, SM-G973U, SM-G970U, SM-G973F, SM-G970F, etc.

Option 4: Use SMS Backup & Restore to Retrieve Samsung Galaxy S10 Text Messages

SMS Backup & Restore is a free third-party app for Android which enable user to easily backup and restore SMS and MMS messages. If you have installed this app on your device and enabled the backup option, it's super simple for messages restoration when a couple of old texts are gone from Messages in Samsung Galaxy S10 (+)/ S10e.

Here's how to restore the backup to get back deleted texts of Samsung S10 free:

• Launch SMS Backup & Restore from app drawer on Galaxy S10.
• Tap Restore.
• In the Restore Backup screen, tap the box next to Text Messages.
• Tap Restore. Then all the lost texts will be restored to default Messages inbox.