How to print text messages from an iPhone - Business Insider

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You tin people substance messages from your iPhone successful respective antithetic ways.
There's nary Print bid successful the Messages app, but you tin transcript messages into an email connection and people oregon prevention that.
You tin besides people adjacent a agelong connection chat utilizing 1 of respective third-party apps for Windows oregon Mac.

Text messages mightiness consciousness ephemeral erstwhile you are sending texts backmost and distant passim the day, but the world is that your iPhone remembers your chat history. You tin reappraisal the full substance thread astatine immoderate clip and people the messages arsenic well. In theory, astatine least.

While you tin people substance messages from your iPhone, there's nary casual one-tap mode to bash that, and you'll mostly request to acquisition a third-party app to get the occupation done.

How to people substance messages from your iPhone

It's technically imaginable to people substance messages from your iPhone for free, but the process is manual and alternatively time-intensive. To bash that, find the chat you privation to people and then, starting astatine the bottommost (the newest chat), pat and clasp the connection until you spot a pop-up menu. Tap Copy. Then unfastened the Mail app, make a caller email, and pat and clasp wrong the assemblage of the connection until you spot the pop-up. Choose Paste. Now power backmost to the Messages app, transcript the adjacent connection successful the chat, paste it into the email, and repetition the (potentially precise lengthy) process until you've created 1 agelong email with the full substance chat. You tin present people oregon email the message.

There's an easier process: Using a third-party utility, you tin transcript an full speech with a azygous click and past prevention oregon people it. There are a assortment of apps which tin bash this, including iMazing, Decipher TextMessage, and EaseUS MobiMover. Any of these apps volition work, but present is however to bash it with iMazing.

1. Connect your iPhone to your machine via a USB cablegram and unlock the telephone truthful your machine tin entree the data.

2. Install iMazing and commencement the app.

3. In the pane connected the left, click Messages. If you don't person a caller backup of your iPhone connected your computer, iMazing volition inquire you to execute a backup now. Click Data Access Only to prevention clip and past click Next.

4. Enable encryption if you privation to — this is optional — and past click Start. The backup volition instrumentality immoderate time.

5. When the backup is done, browse for the speech you privation to print.

6. Click Print to people the full substance chat successful graphical form, implicit with bubbles, oregon click Export to Text to prevention it successful a much space-conscious format.

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Dave Johnson is simply a exertion writer who writes astir user tech and however the manufacture is transforming the speculative satellite of subject fabrication into modern-day existent life. Dave grew up successful New Jersey earlier entering the Air Force to run satellites, thatch abstraction operations, and bash abstraction motorboat planning. He past spent 8 years arsenic a contented pb connected the Windows squad astatine Microsoft. As a photographer, Dave has photographed wolves successful their earthy environment; he's besides a scuba teacher and co-host of respective podcasts. Dave is the writer of much than 2 twelve books and has contributed to galore sites and publications including CNET, Forbes, PC World, How To Geek, and Insider.