How can I save my iPhone text messages?

[WhiteiPhones]

Use www.uppidy.com - great service and it's free. You can search text messages, etc.

[Djs621]

Originally Posted by MasterTick

I never get why people are so desperate to save SMS conversations.

I used to be like that until I was forced to do a clean restore, then I realized I didn't care lol

Girlfriends say the darnedest things. Sometimes it's nice to reflect.. All I'm sayin

[Alex Finlayson]

Several folks at my firm use decipher text message to save all our texts to our computers. Works good. Easy to run. www.deciphertools.com

[BullittMustang]

Originally Posted by lauraconnelly

I use the decipher text message program to save my messages to my pc. http://www.deciphertools.com My husband uses it at his law firm and seems to also like it. A couple of lawyers in his office have to document their sms stuff so they archive things each month.

I also use decipher. It works well.

[walmartmartyr]

everytime u plug your phone into the computer, itunes backs up all your txt messages don't it?

[AppleFanatic10]

Originally Posted by sanskakola

I was looking to save text messages from my boyfriend because they are so sweet - and I tried AllYourTexts. Within seconds of downloading it I had all of my text messages from him, and all of my other contacts too, on my PC in a really easy to read color-coded conversation format with all of the photos we exchanged in full-size too. I am really impressed with the ease of this program - it works without even connecting my iphone to my PC. Very impressed.

Yes! Tried this app called "All Your Texts" and I absolutely love it. It keeps both the texts and your picture messages. The only thing that seems wrong with it is that it only works for windows, so since I have a Mac I'd have to save all my texts on my windows partition, which sucks because I barely use it. They need to really work on releasing a Mac version and I think it would be the best SMS application for saving text messages. I tried to us uppidy like another user said but that one worked to no avail. So I'd suggest this one since it actually works and its only $4. Try it, I think you may like it

[Mliii]

Originally Posted by AppleFanatic10

Yes! Tried this app called "All Your Texts" and I absolutely love it. It keeps both the texts and your picture messages. The only thing that seems wrong with it is that it only works for windows, so since I have a Mac I'd have to save all my texts on my windows partition, which sucks because I barely use it. They need to really work on releasing a Mac version and I think it would be the best SMS application for saving text messages. I tried to us uppidy like another user said but that one worked to no avail. So I'd suggest this one since it actually works and its only $4. Try it, I think you may like it

Try 'PhoneView' for the Mac. It saves texts and does a lot more...

[AppleFanatic10]

Originally Posted by Mliii

Try 'PhoneView' for the Mac. It saves texts and does a lot more...

I tried it and didn't like it too much.

[tagsalegirl]

my iphone has been doing wacky things lately (I got it June of '10) and one of them is that it will suddenly flip to "clear all previous messages?" when I'm reading texts and I've always caught it and stopped it. Apparently it did it while I was no watching this time, phone must've been in my pocket or purse, but regardless, suddenly my 5 months worth of texting from this incredible person is GONE and I am really really sad. I would like them restored on my phone but if that's not possible I'll go the computer route, just to have them back again.
HELP?!?!?!

[AppleFanatic10]

Originally Posted by tagsalegirl

my iphone has been doing wacky things lately (I got it June of '10) and one of them is that it will suddenly flip to "clear all previous messages?" when I'm reading texts and I've always caught it and stopped it. Apparently it did it while I was no watching this time, phone must've been in my pocket or purse, but regardless, suddenly my 5 months worth of texting from this incredible person is GONE and I am really really sad. I would like them restored on my phone but if that's not possible I'll go the computer route, just to have them back again.
HELP?!?!?!

Did you back it up recently?

[sk24iam]

I use the SMS export app to backup my text messages on my computer and it works great.

[tagsalegirl]

Originally Posted by AppleFanatic10

Did you back it up recently?

I synced my phone to download photos a couple months ago but not recently.... I'm SOOL, aren't I?

Is it worth $19 to get online with an Apple person to "chat" through this issue?

[AppleFanatic10]

Originally Posted by tagsalegirl

I synced my phone to download photos a couple months ago but not recently.... I'm SOOL, aren't I?

Is it worth $19 to get online with an Apple person to "chat" through this issue?

You're pretty much screwed. Sorry

[sheels]

SMS backup created by iTunes can be found here:

Windows 7:C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
Windows XP: %APPDATA% = C:\Documents and Settings\[your username]\Application Data\

Then you can use using SQLite reader to extact. Also, there is a possibilty to copy or transfer SMS to computer as a text/mht format using some third party programs.