Samsung Galaxy Help Needed

[The Brummie]

My fairly new Galaxy S10E has just updated itself.

And in the process deleted all of my text messages!!!

Some I’m not bothered about - others I am because of the content. Work, personal stuff etc

Is there any way to recover lost text messages or are they, as I fear, gone for ever?

TIA.

[eybic]

Do you have any of the auto backup options enabled? Samsung Cloud or Google perhaps??

[The Brummie]

eybic said:

Do you have any of the auto backup options enabled? Samsung Cloud or Google perhaps??

Honest answer? No idea. How do I find out if I have? Stupid question I know however.....

[eybic]

No problem. Look in "settings" (drag down from the top of the screen then the cog) then "Accounts and Backup", hopefully you should see a "restore" option???

[The Brummie]

Found it a while ago.

Backed up 10.8k texts. Some going back 10/12 years.

The stuff I want/need? Nowhere to be found.