how to check backed up text messages

[WPCentral Question]

I have read most posts and do not see what others see on their outlook. i dont see anywhere that says message history or anything like that. i only see the emails. I have my phone set to text message backup on and can not figure out how to check my past messages that are no longer stored on my phone.

 

[Harrie-S]

Sorry to say this but if you have the messages not on your phone anymore then they are also not in the backup anymore.
So if you delete them on your phone they also get automatically deleted in your back up.

 

[jacobdrj]

Yeah, it is one of my biggest pet peeves with the Windows Phone platform, no access to backed up texts except via restoring them onto a phone... And if you delete them from the phone, they are just gone..
It was quite the unpleasant shock coming from Blackberry and Android...