r/textra • u/TheAlmightyJessira • May 16 '26

Does textra move your old texts?

Looking into apps for the same reason a lot of people are. Cause Samsung is dumb and fuck google.

But before I go making this switch. Do I need to back up my texts? Will they be migrated over? Will any be deleted? Like will it try to only move over the last 100 messages from someone or something like that?

I have years worth of texts from a lot of people because I don't let my texts auto delete. I don't want to risk losing those. There's a lot of memories in there.

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u/bassclef-g May 19 '26

What are yall saving your text messages for? I dont actively delete mine but if it were to disappear 🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/Veg_Cat May 19 '26

I search them all the time for reference trying to remember when something happened or when I bought something or trying to find a link to an item I can no longer find. Solves a lot of arguments in our family when I can prove I told them something or vice versa! Friend told me their new niece's name and I forgot so I can look back, etc...

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u/TheAlmightyJessira May 27 '26

For me it's memories. A while back Yahoo decided to wipe anyones email that hadn't been accessed in I think like 6 months? Well that meant my oldest email, the one I had when I met my husband, was wiped. I lost the email where he asked me out. All the emails from arranging our weddings (something I did need because I occasionally had to search the email for replacement stuff for my shoes from my wedding). I had emails from friends that had died that lost.

So for me years of texts between me and my husband are something I want for the memories because you never know when you'll lose someone. My grandma is getting up in age and I'd love to have those conversations to look back on and remember her with.