Jay Walsh June 18, 2017 at 11:25 AM Categories: iPhone | View Comments
Since we do a lot of work with iPhone data, we're often asked how to save text messages and iMessages as a PDF. You may want to archive your text messages for sentimental reasons or you may need to export text messages to PDF for business, legal, or family matters.
How to send and receive iPhone text messages on your Mac Posted by Gautam Prabhu on Oct 21, 2014 in Continuity, How To, iOS 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, iOS 8.1.3 iOS 8.1 enables SMS Text Message Forwarding feature, a Continuity feature that lets you send and receive SMS messages on your Mac via your iPhone, even if the person you’re communication. The world of law is changing, and it is now possible and permissible for people to use digital means of communication as evidence in court. This means that if you are involved in a legal matter, that you can use any text messages that you have received from the people that you are involved with as evidence, which is a huge change from the way that things used to be ten years ago.
How To Get Text Messages Off Iphone
How to save iPhone text messages to PDF:
Download the free trial of Decipher TextMessage and install the software on your Windows or Mac computer.
Open Decipher TextMessage, select an iPhone, and choose a contact whose text messages you want to save as PDF. Select 'export' from the menu. Note: If you don’t see your iPhone in Decipher TextMessage, you simply need to make a backup of your iPhone via iTunes.
Open the exported folder containing your messages and double-click on the html file. The file will open as a local web page in your default web browser. Below is how to then best convert the saved iPhone text messages to a PDF on Mac and Windows.
Mac
Select Print in your web browser. The OSX print dialog has a built-in button to 'print' to PDF. You can find the 'PDF' button in the lower-left corner of the print dialog box.
Windows
Our recommendation to save text messages as a PDF on Windows is to use Google Chrome to 'print' the exported messages to a PDF file. Chrome not only has a very easy PDF export feature, it also does a great job rendering our iPhone-like formatting of the messages.
If you need to install Google Chrome, you can do so from the Chrome website.
Right-click on the html file exported from Decipher TextMessage and choose 'Open With' and then select Google Chrome.
Press Ctrl+P or press the button in the upper right that looks like three lines, and Print from the drop down menu.
Towards the bottom of the print options, make sure the checkbox that says “Background Colors and Images” is checked. (We've noticed that recent Chrome updates have a bug where you may need to uncheck and check the “Background Colors and Images” option again to get the bubbles to appear in the preview.)
Under “Destination” select “Change.” and then from “Local Destinations” select “Save as PDF”
Your “Print” button likely just turned into a “Save” button, press Save, and then select where you'd like to save your PDF text messages!
If you have any questions about saving or exporting text messages from your iPhone as a PDF document, contact us via our Decipher Tools Support page and we'll be happy to assist.
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I have a court case and have text messages on my iPhone I need to transfer to my iPad email for evidence. Every time I try it doesn't work, it will send them to my iMessage but not my email. I need to print them out How do I do this?
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There is an app called PhoneView that lets you view and print your messages as a PDF.see it here http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/P.S. I am not in any way affiliated with ecamm. :-)
RockadayRockaday
If you want to print out few text messages then you can take the screen shots and email the pictures to your computer for printing or simply AirPrint the screenshots. You might also consider third party apps like Phoneview or Tansee to print out your text messages. This guide worth a look: http://www.iphone-to-pc.com/how-transfer-messages-iphone-pc.html
Using as the base, I updated and modified the script to behave properly. Text editor with terminal for mac. Double-clicking a text file now opens it in vi in a new tab in Terminal, opening Terminal if it's not already running (which is rare, as I usually have four or five tabs open all the time).
The 'recipient' you're picking in step 5 above is the recipient for atext or iMessage; there's no way to select email instead.
The forwarded texts lose the 'speaker' indicator, so with multiple texts, it's a little hard to see who said what.
If you only care about getting the messages into an email (and don't need the speaker) first issue, the easiest solution is this:
Go to the text you forwarded yourself with all the texts lumpedtogether (that you got by following the 5 steps above)
Hold your finger on it until 'Copy/More' appears
Pick copy
Copy it into an email, and send it to yourself, print it, etc.
If you need to print something that indicates who was speaking, your best bet may be this:
Go to the beginning of the dialogue you want in your texts.
Hold the Home button, and press the power button without letting go of home.
You'll see a white flash, indicating that the hone took a screen capture.
If all the messages you needed didn't fit on one screen, scroll to the next set, and repeat.
Once you have done this for all the messages you need, go to the 'Photos' app, and open 'Camera Roll' - you'll see those screen captures as the most recent images.
Click 'select' in the upper right corner, then select all the pics you need.
Hit the 'share' button in the lower left corner, then pic 'Mail'
That will let you email yourself (or anyone else) printable images of the text conversation. Note that they'll be pics, so you can't edit the text, etc.
I'm one of the developers for Decipher TextMessage, a program that will help you print your iPhone text messages. I've gotten feedback from many of our customers who use the software for that exact purpose, so I've spent some time adding features to help support using our printouts for court cases.
There's a plain-text printout export as well as a fancier export that you can use to print with the iPhone-like text bubbles and image previews. Everything includes the party names (from your phone contacts) as well as the phone number, so you should have all of the needed information on the printout.
I hope this helps! You can try a free trial of our program on our website: http://deciphertools.com
KellyKelly
Spotify premium 8.4 apk. Forwarding messages from the messages app only allows sharing by messages, as you have found out. I would question how useful this is anyway, as it strips out any useful meta information, including who said what, and instead just lists all the content with no context. A better method although perhaps a little more time consuming might be to take screenshots.
If you swipe left to reveal the time and datestamps, then hold home and press power you should take a screenshot. Shortcut for mac to find areas where you can enter text. Take enough to show all your messages that you are interested in, and you can then wither just sync your photos to your PC or Mac, or even get clever and stitch them together into a single large image. Benefits of this are that it is clear the context that they are sent in, and also clear that rather than being just a text copy that could have been altered they are clearly shown to be unaltered.
Perhaps even better still because you clearly can edit images, is to use AirPlay mirroring to your Mac, and use Quicktime to record a video of the window as you slowly scroll down the list, occasionally left swiping to show timestamps.
Speaking strictly of your desire to send particular messages to your inbox, there is a way that works with at least AT&T (I have tested it only with AT&T) as a cellular provider. You need the ability to send MMS messages. Download meet me for mac.
It is actually a simple process than:
Switch off iMessage on your phone.
Tap and hold on a message that you would like to forward.
Select 'More'.
Select the Messages you would like to send.
Note that these messages will be concatenated together.
Forward them to your email address.
They will arrive in your inbox from an email address like [your phone #]@mms.att.net.
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