In this post we're going to go over two techniques for printing text messages from iPhone. The first technique will build a Pages document using screenshots and the Shortcuts app on your iPhone that works great for short conversations; the second technique will use third party software to create a PDF document of your messages on your computer.
I've made a quick video showing how to take screenshots you've taken of a text message conversation and quickly turn them into a Pages document that you can send or print from your iPhone. This technique works great for shorter conversations, and produces a document with one screenshot per page of the document, ordered in chronological order.
Steps to Print Text Messages from iPhone Using Screenshots and the iOS Shortcuts app
Now you have a Pages document with those screenshots arranged one per page in ascending chronological order! Using iPhone screenshots to print your text messages has some notable downsides, such as the small amount of information in each screenshot, the date and time only being shown for some messages, and the lack of clear labeling of contact and number on each message. However it has some notable upsides too, such as the messages looking 100% exactly as they do on the iPhone (because it's a screenshot!) and that this method is free. Can't beat that price!
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Good third party software to print text messages from iPhone will clearly label each message with the date, time, and sender's contact information. The resulting document from third party software should be more informative than screenshots, and take better advantage of the larger page size to show more messages than the screenshot method.
At the 5:32 mark in the video above I show how to use the third party software that I help develop, Decipher TextMessage to create a PDF document of your iPhone text messages, so you can quickly print text messages from your iPhone with the correct labeling and in a more concise format than screenshots. This technique works better than screenshots for longer conversations.
Steps to Print Text Messages from iPhone Using the Third Party App Decipher TextMessage
Back Up
and plug your iPhone in to your computer.
Make Backup
. Decipher TextMessage will make a backup of your iPhone that only contains the text messages app data.Export
> Export Current Conversation
.
PDF
if you would like to print out the entire text message conversation from your iPhone, or click PDF (Date Range)
if you would like to specify only messsages from a certain period of time.
Download Decipher Text Message
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