If you find yourself in need of a hard copy print out of your iPhone text messages, including SMS and iMessage, the question is simple: How do I print iPhone text messages? There are a few ways to print text messages from an iPhone. Taking screenshots on your iPhone and printing those screenshots is quick and easy if you have a short conversation. Alternatively, when dealing with extensive message threads spanning multiple screen lengths, third party software proves more effective. This article offers step-by-step instructions for both methods, allowing you to choose the most suitable option based on the amount of messages you wish to print.
To print text messages directly from your iPhone, take screenshots of the Messages app on your iPhone and then print them. This method works best when you need to print a small number of messages.
Steps to print iPhone text messages using screenshots
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Again, if you only need to print a few text messages, the screenshot method is free and quick. However, if you have more than just a few iPhone text messages to print out, taking and organizing a lot of screenshots will quickly get out of hand. (We do have a video demonstrating how to use the Shortcuts app to help organize many text message screenshots into a Pages document if you absolutely need to go the screenshots route though.)
Disadvantages of screenshots for printing text messages
For these reasons, if you have more than a few messages, we don't recommend using the screenshot method to print your text messages. It's often too time consuming to be worth the hassle!
Decipher TextMessage is third-party software that enables users to quickly save and print iPhone/iPad text messages in just a few easy steps. The program first saves text messages from iPhone to your Mac or Windows computer and then you can immediately print out a PDF of all your SMS messages or iMessages. Quick, simple, and easy!
Items needed to print text messages from iPhone/iPad
Mac or Windows Computer
Printer
Follow these specific steps to print iPhone text messages on any Windows or Mac computer
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Yes, you can print text messages from only certain dates! Many iPhone users don't want to print every single text message from a specific contact but rather they prefer to narrow down and only print SMS messages from a few days or even a single day.
To print text messages only from a specific time period, click Export > Export Current Conversation > PDF (Date Range) in Decipher TextMessage.
Decipher TextMessage has a special preference that lets users print text messages with the name and phone number on every single iPhone text message, both sent and received. Click Preferences in the program and make sure "Show Contact on Every Message" is checked.
This is useful for business, trial, and legal reasons. It's important that the contact name and phone number be visible on every single text messages for documentation and verification purposes. This feature also provides a quick visual reference of who each message is from when anyone is browsing through print outs of the text messages.
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Our helpful video tutorial contains specific steps to print text messages from any iPhone as a PDF. Simply follow along at the link below to export and print text message and iMessages.
Learning how to print iPhone text messages is a very useful skill that comes in handy for personal text messages and also for business-related SMS exchanges and conversations.
Determining what is the best method for your needs depends on how many text messages you need to print and also how regularly you need to accomplish this task.
If you need any further advice or have questions about how to print text messages on iPhone or iPad, simply email us or leave a comment below and someone from either our Phoenix or San Francisco team will respond. Happy text message printing!
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