How to use Android's built-in SMS Backup Many phones (including Pixel phones) have a built-in automatic SMS backup, courtesy of Google, in the messaging app.

Here’s how to transfer text messages from your iOS device to your computer: Connect your iPhone to your computer and open iExplorer. Click on the Data tab and then the Messages button.

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.

Here's how to move text messages from an old to a new Android phone and ensure you can recover all of your texts even if your phone is lost or stolen.

If you need to save your text messages, you can create a backup and save them to your Gmail account. Here's how.

Google produced a handy animation on how text scheduling works in Android Messages, but you may need to update your system and the app before you can use it.

If you want to save your text messages on an Android phone, it's actually extremely easy, and we couldn't recommend it more.

The messages are then written to a text file or a CSV, depending on which you select, and it's saved to your phone's SD card. SMS to Text is completely free and available in the Android App Market ...