How Do I Get a Copy of My Text Messages and History from T-Mobile?

You can lose T-Mobile text messages or call history for numerous reasons, including theft, accidents, water damage, software issues, physical damage, device malfunction or a forgotten password. If you're a T-Mobile customer and have recently cleared your phone's inbox or call history, but suddenly need to access that message or number you deleted days ago, what should you do?

It's not possible for T-Mobile to give you a full transcript of text messages since they're unable to keep this data; however, you can get text message timestamps. Another possible solution is using a third-party service to directly recover messages from your phone.

Obtaining Timestamps from T-Mobile

With T-Mobile, you can access up to a year of phone records through your T-Mobile account page:

1. Log into your T-Mobile account and click "Usage" in the top menu.
2. Choose from the type of usage you would like to view: data, messages or calls.
3. When the results appear on your screen, you can download the records.
4. A PDF file will download, which you can then save and print.
   

Recovering Text Messages Using a Third-Party Service

There are numerous third-party services you can use to recover lost messages on a phone; however, these are not endorsed or guaranteed by T-Mobile.

You can find these services by Googling "How to recover my text messages from T-Mobile."

While a recovery service can reinstall messages, it's important to remember that it will also recover all images, videos, data and call records, since it can only complete a full recovery and not a selective one.

While T-Mobile help agents won't be able to assist with a full recovery, you can contact their customer service team if you can't figure out how to access your usage records.