SMS Backup & Restore doesn’t write messages directly into your messaging app. It passes each message to Android’s built-in message storage, which every messaging app reads from. Before saving a …
The app always makes a local copy of each backup, even when it is set to back up only to a cloud account. This means a backup is still available …
Yes! Starting with version 10.26.003 of the app, you can restore a conversation from a backup made on another person’s phone — for example, if you want to get back …
Note that this page covers two separate Android 17 issues: some RCS messages not getting backed up, and conversations that seem to be missing on phones that were upgraded from …
SMS Backup & Restore does not send your personal data — including your messages, phone numbers, or call logs — to SyncTech or any third-party servers. All backups are stored …
A recent update to Google Messages (around May/June 2026) introduced a bug where outgoing RCS messages are no longer written to the phone’s messaging database. SMS Backup & Restore reads …
One of the main reasons of failure to authenticate with Google Drive is because you’ve previously allowed the app to have full access to Google Drive and are trying to …
Google is trying to reduce the risk of inadvertent access to data by making it difficult for app developers to gain full access to user’s Google Drive account. Their recommended …
It appears that a recent update to the phone software on Samsung phones (most likely as part of deprecating Samsung’s Messages app), the RCS messages are being stored as normal …
Due to the new restrictions being imposed by Google on accessing files from Google Drive, the app now defaults to limited access on Google Drive. This means that it can …