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How to Find Old Messages with Scrolling Open the Messages app and enter the text conversation that you want to view the old messages. Touch the location of time (top-left corner of the screen) or network (top-right corner of the screen). Then you can quickly view the old messages from the beginning of the conversation.

They sit on the company's server for anywhere from three days to three months, depending on the company's policy. Verizon holds texts for up to five days and Virgin Mobile keeps them for 90 days. AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint do not keep the contents of text messages.

How to Look Up Old Messages on an iPhone With the Search Bar Go to the Messages app. Find the Search bar on the main screen with all the conversation threads.Type the words you remember in the search bar, or use your voice with a tap on the mic.

You need iOS 16, iPadOS 16.1, or later to recover deleted messages and conversations. You can only recover messages and conversations that you deleted within the last 30 to 40 days.

How to set iPhone text messages to automatically delete after a period of time Launch Settings on your iPhone or iPad. Tap Messages. Scroll down and select the Keep Messages option under the Message History heading. Choose for how long you would like to keep the messages on your iPhone: 30 Days, 1 Year, or Forever.

IMessage Can Help As long as the person you're texting has an iPhone, iPad or other iOS device with an active data connection, the operating system's iMessage service negates the 160-character texting limit.

How to Read Old Texts on iPhone Without Scrolling Open the Messages app. Tap inside the search bar. Type the phrase. Select the conversation.

To keep your messages for a certain amount of time, go to Settings, tap Messages, then tap Keep Messages. Then select how long you want to keep your messages.

Android - Quick steps to forever save text messages Open a Gmail email account if you don't have one. Enable the IMAP feature. Launch SMS Backup+ and select Connect. Accept the prompt to Backup. All your text messages will start backing up to Gmail and can save them forever.

To change the font size for Google Pixel phones and devices running plain Android, go to Settings > Accessibility > Text and display > Font Size and adjust the slider on the screen.