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I've been looking around to find a good, privacy respecting way to sync my messages between phones. I decided I'm going to use SyncThing so I don't have to mess around with a server. The only problem with this is that I haven't been able to find any apps that work on modern Android that routinely backup and import messages from a file/folder into the messages database. Does anyone know any app that might do this?

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[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That looks promising, much appreciated. I should also mention I also mean to back up MMS along with SMS.

[–] Parasite_Messiah@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Then I'm glad to be of at least partial assistance with your search. Ah, I'm not entirely sure if it does, and I can't presume so due to it including the entirety of the messages, and I unfortunately can't check, as I don't have any MMS to save.

I do however hope it does, but if not, I wish you the best of luck with your search, and that others will chime in with more effective solutions.

[–] ionize@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

This can be done no matter what SMS/MMS app you use, but it is slow.

SMS Import / Export (Imports and exports SMS and MMS messages, call logs, and contacts.) https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.tmo1.sms_ie/