How To Transfer Text Messages From Iphone To Mac Via Itunes
Disconnect iphone from computer step 3.
How to transfer text messages from iphone to mac via itunes. Check if your iphone show up in itunes. Please make sure that you have turned off the icloud backup on iphone and itunes before backing up in itunes. Select this computer below. Import messages from itunes backup. Select file type and connect iphone.
Click on it and all text messages on iphone will be shown on the screen. Besides it highly supports any frequently used ios data like contacts call logs videos audio and more. And then click the next to connect your iphone. Another old fashioned but straightforward way of saving your messages to the computer is to use itunes. Transfer iphone text messages to your computer using itunes.
To save text messages from iphone to computer using itunes. Backup the messages from iphone via itunes. If this is the first time you re plugging your iphone into this computer tap trust on your phone s screen to authorize the connection. Connect your iphone to your computer with a usb cable and wait for itunes to launch automatically. How to backup messages using a mac or pc alternatively you could plug your iphone into itunes and backup to your mac or pc.
Choose the messages you want to transfer to mac by ticking the box before the contact name and click export to button to transfer imessages from iphone to mac as csv html or txt files. Then click export button on the central of the top menu bar. But the one big downside of this method is that you have to back up your entire device as there is no option to transfer only messages to computer. Open itunes on your computer. You can find it in your applications folder on a mac or on your start menu on windows.
Connect your iphone to mac first and then launch the itunes. Navigate to the left sidebar and find sms. Open itunes and click on the iphone icon. Follow the steps to import messages from iphone to mac with itunes. From the recover from ios device option click start to check message.