https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Galaxy-S22/How-to-delete-Back-up-texts/m-p/3186967#M98606 <P>If your old texts are important to you, there is an app in the Play store called SMS backup and restore and it does a really good job of backing up messages to the location of your choice.&nbsp; You can backup all your old messages or selective conversations.&nbsp; You can set it to back up automatically or you can do it manually when you feel like it.&nbsp; There are other apps that do the same thing, but this is simple and the texts are readable in a .pdf file.&nbsp; Even if you choose to save it to Google, you can then delete any backups you no longer need.&nbsp; You can then, if you want, exclude backing up texts in the phone's backup by unchecking it in accounts and backup.&nbsp; You can also use Smart Switch to back up your texts to a flash drive, external hard drive or computer. In the meantime, if you truly no longer need the old texts you are looking to delete, delete old texts from your current messages and any new device backup should overwrite what is now in Google.&nbsp; You can also turn off backup to Google if you want, as your messages get backed up in the Samsung cloud (unless you turned that slider off). The Google backup is just insurance in case you move from a Samsung Device, as the Samsung backups can only be restored to a Samsung device. while Google backups can be restored to any device (I believe even Apple).</P> Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:01:49 GMT realaud 2025-04-03T18:01:49Z