How to find old text on windows phone?

[wp8-1]

This might be a long shot, but is there any way to find an old text message from my Lumia dated back almost 2 years? I have always had text message backup on.

 

[Shamshi-Adad]

This might be a long shot, but is there any way to find an old text message from my Lumia dated back almost 2 years? I have always had text message backup on.

Restore them?
Let Cortana search?

Peace. Alan
Galaxy S7Edge [MM6.0.1] Full Dresser
Lumia ICON [Win10M 14977.1000] Sportster
Even when I lose, I win.

 

[wp8-1]

How do you restore them? Sorry I haven't really ever done this process before.

 

[AV2RY]

How do you restore them? Sorry I haven't really ever done this process before.

(I think) the only way is to do hard reset first. Then you restore them during setup

 

[wp8-1]

Thanks that seems like a pain but if it works I'll take it.

 

[shmsnh]

If your text message backup is on, the messages will be there. However, I have noticed that all messages from WP 8.1 do not restore to Windows 10 Mobile. All you have to do is select download messages from 'any time' and voil?. This works without a hard reset as well.

All of this is from personal experience. I have managed to restore messages from 2014 (on my first phone) in 2016 (to my second phone) using this.