How to back up Android SMS messages to Gmail

we all know that backing up our data is incredibly important in case we lose our phone or a hard drive fails here is how to backup SMS and MMS from an Android phone to Gmail first download SMS backup plus from the Google Play Store launch the app and tap connect to link your gmail account allow the app to manage your mail and it will ask you if you want to immediately backup all messages on the device select this option and the backup will begin depending on how many messages you have on your phone this could take anywhere from a few minutes or up to an hour now when you go into your gmail account you should see a new label called SMS all of your text messages and MMS content is there for you to view also make sure to turn on the auto backup feature within the SMS backup plus app change the frequency to suit your schedule such as backing up messages once per day in San Francisco I'm Alexis Avedis cnet.com for CBS News

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Published: Fri May 06 2016