Guides to export, save and print your chats
iPhone Messages
Guides for exporting, saving and printing iMessage and SMS conversations from your iPhone.
How to Export Text Messages from a Specific Date Range
Messages can't filter a conversation by date. How to export text messages from a certain date to another as a PDF, spreadsheet or Word file.
How to Export Text Messages from iPhone: 4 Ways
Export a text or iMessage conversation from your iPhone to PDF, Excel or Word: free built-in options, Mac and PC software, and iPhone apps compared.
How to Export Text Messages to Excel
Get iPhone text messages into Excel with one message per row: why Apple can't do it, desktop software that can, and an iPhone app that writes the .xlsx.
How to Export Text Messages to a Word Document
Turn an iPhone text conversation into an editable Word file for a statement, report or timeline, with chat bubbles or as a plain transcript you can edit.
How to Export Text Messages with the Shortcuts App
On iOS 26 or later, a free shortcut reads one Messages conversation, photos included, and hands it to an app that saves it as a PDF, Excel or Word file.
How to Forward Text Messages to Email on iPhone
Forwarding in Messages doesn't reach an inbox. How to email texts from iPhone instead: as screenshots, or the whole conversation as one attached file.
Free Up Messages Storage on iPhone Without Losing Chats
See how much space Messages uses, keep a copy of the chats that matter, then delete big attachments or old conversations in the right order.
How to Print Text Messages from iPhone: 3 Ways
Messages has no Print button. Get a text conversation on paper with screenshots and AirPrint, a Mac, or a PDF of the whole chat printed from your iPhone.
How to Save and Export a Group Text on iPhone
Keep a group chat from expiring, collect its photos, and export it to PDF, Word or Excel so every message still shows who sent it. Free options come first.
How to Save Pictures from Text Messages on iPhone
Save a photo, a stack or a collage from a text to your iPhone's library, find every picture in a conversation, and keep photos together with the messages.
How to Save Text Messages as a PDF on iPhone
Turn a text or iMessage conversation into a PDF: what a Full Page screenshot can do, the free Mac method, and a full chat PDF made on your iPhone.
How to Save Text Messages on iPhone So They're Never Lost
Stop your iPhone deleting old texts, then protect them: Keep Messages, Messages in iCloud, backups and a readable copy, and what each one covers.
How to Screenshot an Entire Text Conversation on iPhone
Full Page won't reliably capture a whole chat. How to screenshot a long text conversation screen by screen, or record it and turn it into one document.
How to Transfer Text Messages from iPhone to Android
Which Android setup methods copy your iPhone texts and which don't, why to turn off iMessage first, and how to keep a readable copy of chats that matter.
Export, print and convert WhatsApp chats on iPhone: PDF, Excel, Word and more.
How to Export a WhatsApp Business Chat
Export a customer conversation from WhatsApp Business, what the export can and can't do, and how to turn it into a PDF or Excel client record.
WhatsApp to PDF: How to Export a Chat on iPhone
WhatsApp's Export chat gives you a ZIP file, not a PDF. How to export a WhatsApp chat on iPhone and turn it into a readable PDF with names and photos.
How to Export a WhatsApp Chat with Photos and Media
Pick the right media option when you export a WhatsApp chat, find out why some photos go missing, and keep the pictures next to the messages.
How to Export a WhatsApp Group Chat
Export a WhatsApp group from the group info screen, what to do when the option is missing, and how to read a busy group export with many senders.
How to Open an Exported WhatsApp Chat on iPhone
A WhatsApp export is a ZIP file. How to unzip it in the Files app, what you'll find inside, and how to read it as a real conversation again.
How to Print WhatsApp Messages from iPhone
WhatsApp has no Print button. Print a few messages as screenshots over AirPrint, or a whole chat as numbered pages made from WhatsApp's export file.
WhatsApp Chat Analysis in Excel, Step by Step
Count messages per person, chart activity by month and find the busiest hours of a WhatsApp chat with COUNTIF and a PivotTable. Sample data included.
How to Export a WhatsApp Chat to Excel
Turn a WhatsApp chat into an Excel sheet with one message per row and Date, Time, Sender, Message and Attachment columns, from WhatsApp's own export.
WhatsApp Chat to Word: Export a Conversation as a .docx
WhatsApp has no Word export, only a ZIP with a text file. Two ways to turn a WhatsApp chat into an editable Word document on iPhone.
WhatsApp Export Chat Limit: How Many Messages You Can Export
WhatsApp's help page states no message or size limit for exports. What it does say about media, and how to handle a very long chat honestly.
WhatsApp Export Chat Not Showing? Why and How to Fix It
No Export chat option in WhatsApp? Usually Restricted chat is on. Where the option lives on iPhone and Android, and who can turn the setting off.
Other chat apps
How to get your messages out of Telegram, Signal, Instagram, Messenger, Discord, Slack and other apps.
How to Download Your Instagram Messages
Download your Instagram DMs with Export your information on iPhone: the steps, the wait, what you get, and how to save one chat as a readable file.
How to Download Your LinkedIn Messages
Request your LinkedIn messages archive from a computer, know what's inside and how long it takes, and save one LinkedIn conversation as a PDF on iPhone.
How to Download Your Facebook Messenger Messages
Download Messenger messages from the iPhone app, get end-to-end encrypted chats from a computer, and save one conversation as a readable PDF.
How to Download Your Tinder Messages
Request your Tinder data with Download My Information, learn why an unmatch removes a chat for good, and keep one Tinder conversation as a file.
How to Download Your Twitter (X) DMs
Download your Twitter (X) DMs through Your X data, know what the archive contains and how long it takes, and save a single DM conversation on iPhone.
How to Export a Discord Chat
Discord's Data Package only holds the messages you sent. How to request it on iPhone, why chat exporter tools risk your account, and a safer readable copy.
How to Export a GroupMe Chat and Download Messages
Download your GroupMe messages with Export my data on the web, pick the chats to include, open the JSON files, and save one group chat as a PDF on iPhone.
How to Export LINE Chat History
Export a LINE chat as a text file on iPhone in two taps, back it up for a new phone, and know which option keeps photos and which can be restored.
How to Export Signal Messages
Signal has no chat export, and its backups only restore Signal. What each official option does, and how to keep a readable copy of one chat.
How to Export a Slack Conversation
Slack's export tool is for workspace owners and admins, and DMs need a paid plan and approval. What a member can do to keep one conversation.
How to Export a Microsoft Teams Chat
Export Teams chat history from a personal account, see what work and school users can do instead, and save one Teams chat as a PDF on your iPhone.
How to Export a Telegram Chat on iPhone
Telegram's chat export lives in Telegram Desktop, not the iPhone app. How to use it, what it leaves out, and how to get a readable copy on iPhone alone.
How to Export a Viber Chat
Viber has no chat export: what Viber Backup and Request your data actually save, and how to keep one Viber conversation as a PDF or text file on iPhone.
How to Export WeChat Chat History
WeChat says chat history can't be exported. What you can do instead: back up to WeChat for Windows or Mac, migrate to a new phone, or save to Favorites.
How to Save Your Messages Before Deleting an Account
Before you delete WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, X, Discord or another account, download your data and save the chats you need. App-by-app checklist.
How to Save Chats on Snapchat
Save Snapchat messages with a tap, stop chats from auto-deleting, download your saved chats with My Data, and know when the other person can tell.
Formats & tips
Which file format to choose, how to turn screenshots into text, and how to share chats safely.
Best Apps to Export Text Messages on iPhone
iPhone apps and Mac or PC programs that export text messages, compared by how they read your chats, what files they make, where data goes and how you pay.
Best WhatsApp Chat Exporter Apps for iPhone
WhatsApp's own Export chat, iPhone apps that turn the file into a PDF or archive, and Mac or PC tools that read backups, compared by what each does well.
How to Blur Names in a Screenshot Before Sharing a Chat
Hide names and phone numbers in chat screenshots with iPhone's Markup, clean up an exported chat before sending it, and check what still identifies people.
PDF vs Excel vs Word: Which Format to Export a Chat To
PDF to read or print, Word to edit, Excel or CSV to sort and count, Text for a transcript, HTML for one file with photos: pick the right chat format.
How to Convert a Screenshot to Text on iPhone
Copy the words out of one screenshot with Live Text, or turn a whole chat's worth of screenshots into one document with senders, dates and times.
How to Make a Text Message Transcript
Turn an iPhone text conversation into a transcript with the date, time and sender on every line, as a plain text file, an editable Word document or a PDF.
Records & keepsakes
Keep conversations as records for work, or as keepsakes you can print and hold on to.
How to Keep a Record of WhatsApp and Text Work Chats
Keep a record of WhatsApp and text work chats: check policy first, stop texts from expiring, export on a schedule, and file PDFs and Excel logs by month.
How to Save Text Messages from a Loved One Who Died
Keep a loved one's texts from expiring, back them up, make a copy you can print or share with family, and learn what Apple's Legacy Contact can give you.
How to Make a Text Message Book
Turn a text or WhatsApp conversation into a printed book: export it as a PDF with chat bubbles, then upload it to a print service that accepts PDFs.