Preserve and Print Text Messages - iPhone

With the amount of text messages sent daily around the world in recent years, the need to preserve and print iPhone text messages is commonplace.

As of last year, there are over 2.2 billion iPhones in the world and there are over 23 billion text messages sent each day!

With this large amount of text messages being sent daily, iPhone users often find themselves with a need to preserve and print out both text messages and iMessages.

After saving and preserving iPhone text messages on a Windows or Mac computer, you'll breathe easier knowing that your important messages are exported and archived for safekeeping.

Reasons to preserve iPhone text messages include:

• Preserving iPhone text messages for court of trial.

• Preserving business text messages between employees and clients.

• Preserving texts of family, children, and loved ones.

• Preserving texts for legal reasons, discovery, or evidence.

• Preserving texts for compliance and archiving.

• Preserving texts in the event of a lost or stolen iPhone.
  

Accuracy when saving and preserving iPhone text messages

When preserving and printing iPhone text messages, accuracy is the most important factor. It is paramount to make sure that your text message print outs are an accurate reflection of how the texts appear on your iPhone.

You also want to make sure that metadata such as the time stamp and contact info are displayed on every message sent and received.

What is a trustworthy third-party software app to preserve and print iPhone text messages?

When it comes to ensuring accuracy and reliability, the popular third-party app Decipher TextMessage is widely recommended solution for saving, preserving, and printing text messages.

Decipher TextMessage is known for its reliability and accuracy and the software enables users to preserve and save text messages with metadata on all messages.

The program also includes any photo attachments as part of the text message exports.

Here is an example of how iPhone text messages appear when imported into the software:

How to preserve and print iPhone text messages

Follow these exact steps to preserve and print iPhone text messages:

1. Connect an iPhone to your computer.
2. Open Decipher TextMessage and choose “Back Up.”
3. Once the back up completes, restart the program.
4. Select the iPhone and choose a contact with text messages you want to preserve and print.
5. Pick the “Export Current Conversation / PDF.”
6. Open the saved document and choose “Print” to print out the iPhone texts.

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What are the different formats used when preserving and saving iPhone text messages?

Decipher TextMessage software has the ability to preserve, save, and print text messages in a variety of formats including PDF, HTML, CSV, and TXT formats.

Here is an example document of iPhone text messages exported in PDF format:

Note: The exported PDF contains time stamp and contact name metadata displayed on every single text message sent and received. This is a unique preference to Decipher TextMessage that is useful for documentation purposes as well as evidence and discovery.

Searching for specific text messages that you want to preserve and print

Decipher TextMessage has a thorough search capability that enables anyone to conduct detailed searches of text messages across all contacts and also by date, contact, keywords, and device.

Users can then preserve and export messages from the filtered search results.

Source: How to Utilize Search Features in Decipher TextMessage.

Can I take screenshots to preserve and print text messages?

Any iPhone user can take screenshots to preserve, save, and print iPhone text messages.

Typically, screenshots are best when you only have a small number of text messages that you need to print.

If you have a large amount of texts to print, the screenshot method is not recommended since it can be quite time consuming to format and organize all the separate screenshots into one cohesive document.

If you are on any iPhone and would like to try the screenshot method for exporting text messages, here is how:

1. Launch the Messages app on your iPhone and select a contact.

2. Simultaneously press and release the "side button" and the "volume up" button. This will save the screenshot to your iPhone camera roll.

3. Select the screenshot in your camera roll and then tap "Print" to print the screenshot of your text messages.

Source: Official Apple Support.

Can I email text messages to someone to preserve the messages on a computer?

After you save your iPhone text messages to your computer as a PDF with Decipher TextMessage, you can easily email the text messages to yourself or anyone in your network.

Users can attach the exported PDF text message document to any email and send the file to themselves or any colleagues. This will ensure that a copy of their iPhone text messages is safely preserved and archived.

If you have a very large amount of text messages in the PDF file and the document is too large to email, you can also share the PDF file of the texts with anyone via a cloud storage solution like Dropbox or WeTransfer.

Takeaway: If you have a short amount of text messages to save, try the screenshot method. If you have a larger amount of text message conversations to save, use Decipher TextMessage.

Conclusion - Preserving and Printing Texts

Hopefully the instructions in today's tutorial will assist you to preserve and print text messages and iMessages from your iPhone or iPad.

If you need additional assistance to capture and print iPhone text messages, you can contact us via our Decipher Tools support page and someone from our team in either San Francisco or Phoenix will be happy to reply and assist.