How to print text messages from an iPhone
An iPhone has no way to print a conversation as it stands. There are two routes that work: screenshots for a short exchange, and a computer for the whole thing.
How do I print a few messages?
Take screenshots as you scroll through the conversation, then print them as you would any photo. This works for a page or two. Past that it is slow, and the dates are easy to lose.
How do I print a whole conversation?
You need a computer, a Mac or a Windows PC. iMessage keeps your conversations on your Apple devices, and no phone app can read them.
On a Mac, our app reads the conversation from Messages. On a Windows PC, you back the iPhone up with Apple Devices and our helper reads that backup. How to export an iMessage conversation has every step.
From there the conversation is set as pages. The digital edition, $15, is a PDF and an ebook of all of it, and a PDF prints at home like any document. A printed book is the same pages, bound.
Can I do it without a computer?
Only with screenshots. We read up to 20 of them into pages, and only if you tick the box that lets Claude, Anthropic's model, read them. For anything longer you need the computer, and only one of you needs one.
What happens to photos in the conversation?
In the Unabridged, a photo shows as a small note where it was sent. The Anthology is the book that prints photos, each beside the moment it belongs to.
If you want it as a book
read receipts prints the whole conversation as a book, with every message in the order it was sent. You choose the book and pay, and we email the steps for your computer.