Where are my Text Messages Stored?
Your text messages are a crucial part of your daily life, so it’s totally okay to ask questions like ”Where are my Text Messages Stored?” Read on to know where your messages are kept on your phone.
There are times that you might need to save your messages on your Andriod device, just in case you want to print them out or copy any of the messages to your email.
Or in a typical situation where you accidentally lost some of the important texts and you really need to recover them.
You might start to worry because you don’t know where your text messages are stored on your device.
Where Text Messages Stored on Android
The location of the Android text messages folder is in the phone’s internal memory, and it varies a little depending on the Android OS. The location of text messages in the Android file system is listed below.
- Android 4.3 or older:
/data/data/com.android.providers/telephony/database/mmssms.db - Android 4.4 or later:
/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/database/mmssms.db - Android 7.0 and above:
- /data/user_de/0/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
This is where your messages are stored on Android but all the files are in unreadable format and can only be accessed on a rooted phone.
How Andriod Stores Pictures from Text Messages
MMS messages and images are also kept in a database in your data folder on the internal memory of your phone. The images and audio in your MMS can, however, be manually saved to your Gallery app.
- Click on the image on the messages thread view.
- Choose a save option such as Save attachment, Save to SD card, Download Attachment, etc.
- This will download to the “Download” folder on SD Card and the gallery
How to Save your Text Messages Without Rooting
If you would also love to save your text messages from your Android device to your computer without root, then Tenorshare UltDta for Android is available for your use.
It serves as an Andriod files extractor that can help you export and save messages from your device to your computer without rooting. All you need to do is:
- Connect your Android phone to the computer. Then open the Tenorshare UltData for Android and select the feature “Recover Lost Data”“.
- Ensure you enable USB debugging which can be done by following the on-screen instructions.
- When your device is connected, choose the message and then tap “Start” to scan your device.
- After scanning, you can see all the messages displayed by the list and select the messages you want to save, and click Recover to save messages in. TXT, .XML, .XLS files.
We hope with this guide, you will now know where to access your messages whenever you want them and not just your text but MMS too.