iMessage Export

[5268282]

I am looking for advice for an iMessage program/app that can export threads with dates/times in conversation style, preferrably to PDF.

I have researched this quite a bit, but most results seem gimmicky and I am hesitant without some actually user feedback. Hopefully I can get some feedback here with which program is worthwhile at providing what I need.

 

[Newbie67]

Me too!

 

[abhishekyadav1]

Try transcopy

 

[kingdavidd]

i use phoneview, does exactly what you are looking for

http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/

 

[Cogsworth]

CopyTrans worked much better for me than iMazing. Both can save iMessages and texts in multiple formats.

 

[kingdavidd]

Transcopy worked much better for me than iMazing. Both can save iMessages and texts in multiple formats.

would you mind proving a link, i would like to check them out.

google search results are showing different variants of "copytrans"

thanks!

 

[Cogsworth]

would you mind proving a link, i would like to check them out.

google search results are showing different variants of "copytrans"

thanks!

Ah yes meant to say "CopyTrans":

https://www.copytrans.net/4pack/

iMazing is decent as well, but had trouble backing up an extremely long iMessage convo from my phone:

https://imazing.com/

Both are pretty slow and take a while if you have lots of messages on your phone as I did.

 

[5268282]

I tested AnyTrans on my Windows 10 laptop and it worked pretty well, only did the trial. The PhoneViewer seems to be MAC only.

Anyone think a simple export to PDF might be included within iOS 11 or a future release?