3 Ways to Get Text Message Records from iOS or Android Devices

In order to keep the phone runs always like new, people like to clean unnecessary files from their mobile phones irregularly. So sometimes they may used to delete text messages, photos, contacts, etc. on the cell phones without too much considerations. However, in some special moments, you found that these deleted messages can cause immense trouble for you, especially the text is deleted by accident, then what will you do? Undoubtedly, you may wish to retrieve these message records completely, right? But the fact have proved that it is not simple to reach the goal in the daily life. This article will explain how you can get the text message records from iOS and Android devices in different methods. And you can compare them and decide which one is better according to your own needs.

Method 1. Get A Text Records from A Service Provider

There are lots of service provider on the market like Sprint, Verizon, AT&T. And when you wish to get the text message records of your mobile phone, asking help from these service provider could be the 1st idea comes into your mind, right? Before trying it, you may think it could be the most effective way to get back the deleted messages,, but you may don't know that all these service providers requires you to offer a court order, then you'll get the dates, number and the time you were sent only, no detailed texts contents here.

So if you're not satisfied with the contacts history you have gotten, and wish to recover the actually text message contents, you need to take other alternative ways into considerations. For many users, you may know that data deleted from the device is not deleted permanently. And as long as the data is not overwritten, then you still have a chance to get them back by using an amazing 3rd-party program - SMS+Contacts Recovery for iPhone & Android devices.

Method 2. Retrieve Text Message Records from iOS and Android Respectively

- For iOS Users: Coolmuster iPhone SMS+Contacts Recovery

Coolmuster iPhone SMS+Contacts Recovery is specially designed for iOS users to recover lost messages and contacts from all generations of iPhone directly. It can restore not only the data, time and phone number of message you were sent, but also the detailed text contents without losing. Here, you're allowed to preview the detailed conversation in the program before recovery as you like. And the program provide users with free trial version, that allows users to take a free trial on this powerful tool before placing an order. But one thing you should pay attention is that the free trial version only support users to scan all files on your iPhone device. That means if you wish to retrieve the found data, you should get the full version at first.

What's more, if you wish to get back more data from your iPhone like SMS attachments, photos, call history, etc., please take another program from Coolmuster as your option here - Coolmuster iOSRescuer.

Detailed steps of how to perform the powerful program:

Step 1. Link iPhone 6S/6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 5S/5/4S/4 to the computer, and then launch the program. (iTunes should be installed before)

Step 2. The program will detect your connected iPhone automatically, and show it as below. Tick the type of data you wish to restore and hit "Start Scan" button to begin scanning files on your device.

Step 3. Preview the scanned files, and tick the messages you wish to restore. Hit "Recover" button to save them on your computer and finish the whole process.

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- For Android Users: Coolmuster Android SMS+Contacts Recovery

Similar to the above data recovery software for iPhone, this tool is specially designed for Android users, that aims to help them recover deleted or lost data like text messages, contacts from Android mobile phones within few clicks. And here you also can get a comprehensive Android Data Recovery - Coolmuster Lab.Fone for Android as your assistant to retrieve contacts, messages, media files, archieve files, etc. from mobile phones as you like.

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Steps of Recovering Text Message Records from Android

Step 1. Connect device to desktop and make it be recognized by the program. (To restore Android text messages, the Android device is required to be rooted, and USB debugging on your Android phone also should be opened.)

Step 2. When the phone is recognized by the tool, it will conduct a deeply scanning on your device and show the scanning results in the program in the form of category.

Step 3. Preview the found text conversation, and tick the records that you wish to restore, then hit "Recover" button to save them on your PC/Mac as you like.