How can I back up old text message to my iPhone?

How can I backup my old text messages back to my iPhone?

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HT201269 hi, my new device was set up in the store that I bought it from. How can I transfer all old text messages over to my new device? I have followed the icloud back up steps on this page. Please help, thank you.

hi, my new device was set up in the store that I bought it from. How can I transfer all old text messages over to my new device? I have followed the icloud back up steps on this page. Please help, thank you.
Its an iPhone 4
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Here is how
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109

How can i print out old text messages?

how can i print out old text messages?

As Ann said, it does depend on your phone. One third party app that works on many phones (especially older models, but not all phones) is BitPim ( http://www.bitpim.org/ ) but it can potentially harm/brick your phone if you don't know what you are doing - use it with caution. I have used it successfully to get texts and photos off an old flip phone that was deactivated and had no sd card.
Newer smartphones can download apps that will give you the ability to print out texts.

How can I look at old text messages

How can I look at old text messages that I haven't deleted my phone just won't load to let me go up that far.?

As Ann said, it does depend on your phone. One third party app that works on many phones (especially older models, but not all phones) is BitPim ( http://www.bitpim.org/ ) but it can potentially harm/brick your phone if you don't know what you are doing - use it with caution. I have used it successfully to get texts and photos off an old flip phone that was deactivated and had no sd card.
Newer smartphones can download apps that will give you the ability to print out texts.

How can I retrieve my deleted text messages from my iPhone 5s? I don't sync to a computer, only to iCloud.

How can I retrieve my deleted text messages from my iPhone 5s? I don't sync to a computer, only to iCloud. My last backup was 2/19/14.

Unless you had them backed up somewhere, I'm afraid they are gone.

How can I get my old text messages back?

Wanted to get old text messages back or at least see them! ... But how?

The only way to recover deleted SMS/iMessages is to restore the device to a backup created after the message was sent but before it was deleted.

How can I read my old text messages after transfer...

OK, I've got a couple of problems. First of all, I've been unable to send text messages from my 6620. As detailed in this older thread,
/discussions/board/message?board.id=messaging&thread.id=14597
...somebody on Yahoo answers suggested a possible fix, but it requires deleting all the text messages in m "In," "Out," and "Drafts" folders first.
I've therefore been dragging my heels about implementing this fix, as I have numerous text messages on my phone which I'd really like to be able to keep and refer back to in the future. The problem is, the last time I checked, there was no way to read any old text messages that you'd removed from your Nokia smartphone and stored on your computer.
Is this still the case? It seems ridiculous to be that there wouldn't be a way to do something as simple as reading an old text file on your computer, but as I said, the last time I checked, nobody could point to any app or utility that would make this possible.
I do recall being able to open certain "Mail" files on the Mac, using TextEdit, but the Nokia had buried the messages inside an incomprehensible structure of layers upon layers of folders and sub-folders, and when you opened the messages, you'd often have to wade through tons and tons of duplicates, all of which had tons of bizarre, random ascii characters showing up in the bodies of the text messages.
So using TextEdit's not a great solution.
Please, can somebody tell me if there's a program that will enable me to easily find and read my backed-up text messages? Ideally this would be something that works under OS X, but I can use VMWare Fusion or Virtual PC if there's only a Windows solution available. Thank you!

As I said previously, "Of course this will not include any messages you had prior to first using Verizon Messages on your old phone."
Verizon Messages will only sync messages which have been sent/received SINCE you first enrolled in it. It will NOT do so for messages from BEFORE.
You could restore older messages to your phone with an app such as SMS Backup & Restore, but they won't be on Verizon's servers to access from other locations such as desktop/laptop/tablet.

How can I upload my old text messages to Integrated Messaging?

I recently started using Verizon Integrated Messaging around a month ago and am now upgrading my phone (that has text messages for the last two years). Normally I could just take all my texts and send them, Android to Android via Verizon Cloud or a 3rd party program. However, I'm going to iOS from Android so those options aren't available (for reasons that still elude me...). In any case, I plan on using Verizon Integrated Messaging on the new iPhone since it seems to be a better option than iMessage. So, it would be awesome if I could upload all my old text messages to Verizon (which I saved via the Verizon Messaging app via the 'Backup' option), either to the website directly or my iOS device, or even directly from the old phone. But, that doesn't seem to be possible and I don't understand why - if I can restore old messages in my phone, why can't I restore them to the Verizon server? Any help would be appreciated - thanks!

As I said previously, "Of course this will not include any messages you had prior to first using Verizon Messages on your old phone."
Verizon Messages will only sync messages which have been sent/received SINCE you first enrolled in it. It will NOT do so for messages from BEFORE.
You could restore older messages to your phone with an app such as SMS Backup & Restore, but they won't be on Verizon's servers to access from other locations such as desktop/laptop/tablet.

How can I back up my text messages to my PC computer so that I can read them or print them?

I have been trying to backup my text messages so that they are in a readable format on my computer so that I can read them or print them. I have a number of pictures that have been sent and some important conversations I need to save; however, they are taking up a lot of memory on my phone and I would like to delete them, but still have access to them on the computer. I downloaded a free program called Appandora, but it locked up every time it started to save the second text message thread. The one that it did save was in a .txt file and was very difficult to read. I do understand that the texts are backed up when the phone is backed up, but I want them in a readable accessible file. I would appreciate any help anyone could give me. Thanks.

Hi Maria,
I am one of the developers for the program Decipher TextMessage, which will help you back up your text messages to your computer. You can read the texts right in the program in a format similar to the phone itself (with the little chat bubbles,) and you can export the messages into a file with that formatting as well. You can download the free trial from our website: http://deciphertools.com/
If you have any questions, you can followup here, or you can contact me directly through the support page on our website linked above (feel free to mention my name, Kelly, explicitly )
(Note: As I mentioned, I work for the company being linked-to above, so I stand to benefit from the links I am posting.)

HT3529 how can you back up old sms messages?

How can I back up or send a copy of a long history of sms messages to an email address?

Try the computer apps PhoneView (Mac) or TouchCopy (Mac & PC):
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/
http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/index.php

How do I get my old text messages from my iPhone to my new Galaxy?

Recently, I just upgraded from an iPhone 4 to a Samsung Galaxy 4. I upgraded my account from Sprint and got my new phone at Best Buy. I'm trying to get into my iTunes because I know I recently synched my iPhone on my iTunes a little over a week ago. What I'm trying to do is get into my iTunes because I know my iCloud is backed up on iTunes. I got all of my contacts and pictures already transferred from my iPhone to my Galaxy. Now, that last thing I'm really worried about is my old text messages. There is this old text message that I'm needing to save, but I can't seem to figure out how to get my old text messages to my new phone.
Is there some way I can get those back or what I need to go to Geek Squad to help me with this?

Apple has not designed the iPhone for loading up old messages across phone platforms.
Screenshot the important stuff on the Android or use a tool to archive the old SMS on your computer.

How can I see really old text messages without scrolling tediously?

Hi, I'm attempting to find a way to find dialogue from a while ago. I've been texting this person daily for months, and I want to see our conversations from months ago. I could scroll tediously but it would take forever and I'm not sure my phone would even allow it.
How can I access dialogue from that long ago and many messages ago?

Try using PhoneView to get access to the old messages
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/
~Lyssa

How can i retrieve my old text messages?

I synced my iphone 5s to the computer for the first time and all my personal data was wiped such as text messages, photos, emails and contacts they were then replaced with my dads information? How do i get my stuff back?

Hello rosebud56,
I understand how important those precious memories are! Are your device settings and call logs still present on the phone? Did you change any settings or select the option to reset to factory settings? Have you restarted the phone since the messages disappeared? I am eager to continue troubleshooting with you!
Thank you,
YaleK_VZW
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All of the sudden my entire text message history was deleted, but if I search for a text it shows up in the results but will not open. How can I restore the old text messages?

I went to text message on my phone and when I looked down my entire text message history was gone. When I sent a text message it showed up as the only box an there was not an Load Older Messages option. But when I page over and search a word or name old messages show up in the results and when I press on them it opens the text message page but there is no text message.

i think that was the problem. i simply downgraded to Firefox 5, not only because of the highlighted text fields, but because i was getting a lot of crash reports whenever i opened multiple tabs. downgrading to Firefox 5 resolved it.

How can I check my daugters text messages?

How can I check my Daughters text messages? Her boyfriend is not the kind of boy I want her seeing but she is young and doesn't know what she wants.

It is very simple.
depending on how old she is. If she is a minor, then the phone is technically your property and under contract with you. If she is older then 18 then you could have some legal issues in trying to do this.
Either way, you can install SMS Backup on her phone or one of the other SMS apps. SMS Backup will save a copy of every text message to a gmail account and you can simply read them from gmail.
I am not going to lecture on the ethical or legal part of this as I do track my son (for various reasons) with this (with 100% knowledge on his side)

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