Transferring text to new phone

I just bought a samsung s25 and am trying to transfer the Google messages to it from my s22. I used samsung smart switchn clicked the transfer all data. Everything came over except the messages. I thought that i might had screwed up so I rebooted the s26 and did smart switch again. Still no messages.

So how does one get their old messages on to their new phone? There's 2 years worth of text between my landlord and i that i really want to keep. I have tried making sure that the messages are being back up on the cloud, etc. But still nothing.