How To Save Text Messages From Iphone To Mac For Free

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For many of us, the Messages app on our iPhones is the most frequently used function. However, it is surprisingly easy to accidentally delete a message or a whole thread of text messages. IPhone touch screens are super sensitive and disaster can strike from a simple wrong tap of a button. Discover how to export text messages from iPhone to PDF format using TouchCopy. You can save SMS, iMessage and WhatsApp Messages to Windows PC or Mac. You can export SMS, iMessage and WhatsApp Messages to Windows PC or Mac. Step 3a: To copy/save all iPhone text messages to Mac Select the '.tfst' or '.txt' format, if you want to backup all the text messages from iPhone to your computer, and then click 'Start Copy' button.

if you have a Yosemite mac, and enable SMS forwarding, the SMS and iMessage will automatically go in the Messages app in the Mac. you can therefore archive these messages in the app. And even if the Mac crashes/dies, the Time machine backup will have a copy of the SMS+iMessages, forever.

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Also, The SMS and iMessage are automatically saved in the iTunes/iCloud Backup, however, this has 2 drawbacks:

  • If the iPhone is lost/dies, you'll be able to recover the messages only by putting the backup on a newly reset/bought iPhone.
  • the backup only saves current SMS/iMessage, which means that if you manually delete from the iPhone the messages, it will also delete from the backup next time the backup syncs. This therefore doesn't allow 'archiving'.

So the first solution is best if you have a Mac, especially since it's for legal reasons, for which it is recommended to have 2 versions of the files.

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Hope this helps 🙂

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<Edit>: Also, you'll probably never find an app that syncs messages, since iOS is a sandbox OS, meaning the Apps don't have access to the data of other apps. so Messages data isn't available to any other app.