How To Print Texts From An iPhone Backup
An iPhone backup on a Mac or a Windows PC still holds the messages up to the day it was made, and it can be read without the phone. We do not read iCloud.
How do I print texts from an iPhone backup?
Open our tool on the computer that holds the backup, pick the conversation, and it is set as a book. On a Mac, our Mac app can read an iPhone backup stored on that Mac. On a Windows PC, download our helper and open it. It finds the backup, you pick the conversation, and only that one comes to us, as text. How to export an iMessage conversation has the steps for both.
Which messages are in an old backup?
A backup holds the messages up to the day it was made. Anything sent after that day is not in it. It holds what was in the Messages app, regular texts as well as iMessages.
Do I still need the phone?
No, a backup on a computer can be read without the phone. That holds if the phone was ever backed up to a PC with Apple Devices or iTunes, or to a Mac. Without a backup you need a computer, a Mac or a Windows PC, and a phone that still works to make one.
What if the backup has a password?
You will need the password. On a Windows PC the helper asks for it when it opens the backup.
Can read receipts read an iCloud backup?
No, we do not read iCloud. We never ask for an Apple ID or its password. The backup has to be one stored on a computer. read receipts is not affiliated with Apple.
What if the phone is dead and there is no backup?
A phone that will not turn on and was never backed up to a computer cannot be read. The same conversation is on the other person's phone, and their export works as well as yours. If the phone still turns on, back it up while it works. The old or broken iPhone guide says how.
What leaves my computer, and what does the book cost?
On a Windows PC only the one conversation you pick is sent, as text, with no photos, and the paperback is $49 and the hardcover $89. Nothing else in the backup leaves the PC. The digital edition by itself is $19.
Related Guides
- How To Get Messages Off An Old Or Broken iPhoneWhat a computer backup can recover, and where it stops.
- How To Export iMessages Without A MacA backup on a Windows PC with Apple's own app, and a helper that reads it.
- How To Export An iMessage ConversationThe steps on a Mac, and on a Windows PC from an iPhone backup.
- Turn Your iMessage Conversation Into A BookThe same steps with the book in mind.
If You Want It As A Book
read receipts sets a conversation read from an iPhone backup as a book, every message in order. You look through every page before anything prints. Or start with the free receipt.