Q&A: Can I retrieve text messages after they have been deleted?
Question by steffers2222: Can I retrieve text messages after they have been deleted?
My son has a cell phone on my plan. He is 12 years old and is into the texting feature. How can I manage his incoming & outgoing text messages if he keeps deleting them from his phone? Is there a way to retrieve text message once they have been deleted from the phone?
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Answer by dhawal.chheda
You can ask the carrier. That might be your best bet.
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you can’t.
no
you need a subpoena for the cell company, get one from ur local police dept.
There isn’t a way…..you’d have a better chance with picture messages.
a 12 year old should not have a cell phone.
i was lucky to get one when i was in high school!
quit being a helicopter parent
yes just go through the waist bin/ trash and look for it. but if u emptyd the trash than u r screwed
The only way you can retrieve text messages would be to get them directly from the cell carrier. My guess is, they will not willingly pull records of previous messages unless there is criminal or civil law activity involved.
On a side note, not to tell you how to parent or anything, but why do you need to read all of your son’s messages? It’s not good for the kid to have everything constantly monitored. Why not let him be a kid?
You can ask your cellphone provider to show you the messages, all the messages your son sends are in the cache of the providers servers and if you own the contract you can retrieve all of them that have been retrieved/sent within the last week. Anytime before that you can’t because they get deleted from the servers.
Theres also SimCard readers you can buy that retrieve deleted information off of cellphones.
I saw a news special on CNN about this a few months ago, and I’m a computer specialist. Not all deleted information gets actualy deleted, theres still remnants left. This is why businesses remove hard drives and cellphone chips before they un-lease them.
Most of the people answering this question do not know what they are talking about. As the person down there has stated if you have verizon you can look at them online and shes right. People please do not answer things you are clueless about.
The carrier has them. i really suggest that you let him have a personal life, a private one. now if you think he is doing drugs or drinking i think it is ok, but just to snoop on him, please do not.
say if you were verizon go into the verizon store nearest you and ask the information desk that question, im sure they would be glad to help you. or whatever network you are go to there store and ask them about it . good luck!
you can’t, but if you wanted to find out for sure you would have to call the phone company
you can recieve the outgoing texts
depends on phone-some have a trash/deleted messages file that are still there after text are deleted-some are hard to find (gotta hit alot of menu options to pull them up)but you can find past text in there unless hes smart and knows how to delete his trash files too(most folks dont know that option is on a cell phone)
I’ll answer this with a question….”Can you retrieve anything that has been erased off a chalkboard?”
There is no way to do that. I think TMobile has a program where you can track how many text message your child get a month or where you can only allow them so many but once they are deleted they are gone. Go online. Whatever carrier you have you can sign up online, i know that with Cingular you can have a ‘detailed billing’ option when you get the bill it shows you the time and number of every text and call but not what is says. hope that helped
no u can not unless he does not find out about delivery reports or something like that
i hate to rat the kid out (i hate when my parents go through my texts)- but if you have verizon you can look at them online.
no, if it is deleted, it is gone forever. . .