How to Read a Text Message Online
You may want to read text messages online for various reason. If you're wanting to save special text messages that were received on your cell phone to the hard drive of your computer or, possibly, you're a concerned parent who wants to track what is written and said on your kids' cell phone. Due to the legal privacy issues, there typically is not an online service that allows you to read your text message online, even if it's your phone. However, there are options that you can try on the Internet for gaining access to the documented texts on your cell phone.
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Instructions
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Getting the Message
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Contact your phone company by going to your service provider's website. Write an email to the customer service section explaining why you want read your own text messages online. Every company has a different policy, and if you can verify who you are, a representative may be able to send you an email with your text messages.
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Write an email to your customer service again if you want to retrieve the text messages from another phone, such as a spouse's or your children's. The company will not be able to legally give you those text messages to view online, but they should be able to provide you with the necessary steps for the process of legally obtaining text messages from another phone.
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Contact police or an attorney if you have a good legal reason to view recorded text messages from another cell phone and have contacted your phone service provider. An applicable reason could be that you paid for the phone and bill and are looking for legal proof of a domestic conflict through means of your partner's text messages.
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Sign the search warrant for the police to be able to access this information. Once the text messages are retrieved you can ask for a hard copy of the messages as well as have the document be sent to you as a PDF online. You can now view the messages online. Keep in mind that this legal process depends on your reason for needing to view the messages.
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Use Yahoo! Instant Messenger or AOL Instant Messenger on your phone instead of texting directly through the phone's texting service. This way you can use your instant message application at home to view messages that people send you while they are on their phone. You can also find online software that logs your instant messaging conversations. That way you can view messages that you sent from your phone online.
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Tips & Warnings
Don't use software to view other people's text messages. Such software is illegal, and in order to view the text messages on someone else's phone, you must be granted permission from the phone company or law enforcement.
