How To Print Text Messages From An Android Phone
Android's Messages app has no way to print or export a conversation. A free app, SMS Backup & Restore, saves your texts as one file, and that file can be set as pages and printed. No computer is needed.
Back Up Your Texts
- Install SMS Backup & Restore from the Google Play Store. It is free.
- Open it and set up a backup of your messages. You can leave out phone calls.
- Save the backup on the phone, or to Google Drive if you want to reach it from a computer.
- Find the file it made: its name starts with sms- and ends in .xml.
What You Get
One file with the texts and picture messages from every conversation on the phone. It is made for the app to restore from, not for reading: opened as it is, it reads as code.
As Pages
Upload the .xml file to read receipts. If it holds more than one conversation, we start with the longest and you can choose another. Only the one you choose is set as pages.
A conversation in WhatsApp, Instagram or Messenger is not in this file: each of those apps has its own export, in the guides.
If You Want It As A Book
read receipts prints the conversation as a book, with every message in the order it was sent. You look through every page before anything prints.