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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