Recovering deleted text messages from an Android phone using a PC

Don't forget the other person. If you deleted your side of the chat, anyone you were texting still has theirs, and asking them for screenshots is often the only copy left that you'll actually get back.

The PC programs that promise this mostly need the phone rooted, and plenty of them scan for free then charge you before you can see whether anything was found. I'd check the free places first: - Samsung Messages has a recycle bin (three dots > Recycle bin), deleted texts sit there for a while - Google Messages: check Archived in the menu, people archive by swiping without meaning to - a Google or Samsung Cloud backup, but that usually only restores during setup, so you'd have to reset the phone and you lose anything newer Meanwhile use the phone as little as possible, new data can overwrite what's left.