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iPhone SMS Backup: Backup Text Messages on iPhone

By Emily Watson, Friday, Dec 19, 2014

Whether it's for personal or legal reasons, you may want to backup text messages - both SMS and iMessages. Just thinking about preventing text messages loss from unexpected accident, or the importance of keeping threatening texts from someone, you'll know why backup text messages is important.

To backup iPhone text messages, iTunes is really a good tool. However, you can't choose to only backup messages. What's worse, when we open iTunes backup files, we only find a SQLITDB file which is unreadable totally.

Luckily, with FonePaw iOS Transfer, you can get rid of these troubles. This tool enables you to backup iPhone messages on computer so that you can keep these SMS text messages for future use. The messages can be exported as CSV, HTML, or TXT files which are readable. This iPhone SMS backup program supports iPhone 7/7 Plus, iPhone 6s Plus/6s, iPhone 6 Plus/6, iPhone 5s/5c/5/4s, etc.

You can now download the trial version now and I'll show you steps to backup text messages from iPhone to computer.

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1. Launch iPhone SMS Backup program & connect iPhone to computer

When the installation is done, run the program and connect your iPhone to PC. This program will detect your iPhone automatically.

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2. Backup iPhone SMS

Find SMS from the left column and click it. You'll see that all text messages on your iPhone are displayed on main window. From here, you can choose to backup selected iPhone text messages or backup all text messages on iPhone.

Backup iPhone SMS on iPhone

To backup selected messages, check the check box in front of each wanted text messages. Click "Export to" > "Export Selected Messages" to save the messages as the format (CSV File, HTML File, TXT File) you want.

Select Messages to Be Exported

To backup all messages, click "Export to" and choose "Export All Messages". Then, the process of baking up text messages begins.

Besides messages, FonePaw iOS Transfer can also backup iPhone contacts, backup iPhone photos and backup iPhone without iTunes. For its wide usages, this tool not only can support iPhone to PC/iTunes transfer and PC to iPhone transfer, but can easily add files from local hard disk, and delete unwanted photos, music, videos to release free space for new files.

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