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.