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Turn your iMessage conversation into a book

How do you turn your iMessage conversation into a book? iMessage keeps your conversations on your Apple devices, and no phone app can read them. So the book is made on a computer, a Mac or a Windows PC. Only one of you needs one.

The steps

First, choose your book and pay. We email you these steps, so you can do them when you are at the computer.

On a Mac

  1. Download Read Receipts for Mac, open the download, and drag the app to Applications.
  2. Open it. It asks to read Messages: in System Settings, open Full Disk Access and turn on Read Receipts.
  3. Pick your conversation and make the book in the app. Or choose Make It on readreceipts.lol and it carries on in your browser.

On a Windows PC

  1. Get Apple Devices from the Microsoft Store. Plug your iPhone in, and tap Trust on it if it asks. In Apple Devices, choose Back up all of the data on your iPhone to this computer, then Back Up Now. The first one can take an hour.
  2. When the backup is done, download our helper. If the browser says it isn't commonly downloaded, keep it.
  3. Open it. Windows may say it protected your PC, because we haven't signed the helper yet: choose More info, then Run anyway. It finds the backup, you pick the conversation, and only that one comes to us, as text.

Then look through every page, change what you like, and approve. It prints and ships from there.

The Unabridged is words only. For the Anthology, you add your own photos to the moments you keep.

Two books from one conversation

Unabridged

Every message, start to finish, set as a novel.

$49 paperback $85 hardcover

  • Paperback or hardcover
  • Words only, with a small note where a photo was sent
  • Includes the digital edition

Anthology

The moments that mattered, each beside a photo of yours.

$89 landscape hardcover

  • Printed in colour
  • Your photos, printed beside your words
  • Includes the digital edition

Free US economy shipping. We ship within the US only for now. The digital edition by itself, a PDF and an ebook, is $15.

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