We want to purchase a new iPhone but don't want to lose the text messages on that phone. Can they be uploaded and then restored onto the new phone

we plan on buying an iphone 5 but don't want to lose the text messges we have on our iPhone 4s. is there a way to upload the texts and then download them onto the new phone

Text messages are included in your iPhone backup. Before switching over to the new phone, back up the old one, then restore this backup to your new phone. That will transfer text messages, along with other data and settings, as well as your apps and other purchased media. More details here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2109.

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HT1766 i have backed up my old iphone as i want to transfer my text messages to my new iphone but it is not backing up my texts and there is no message option to select to back up in settings

I have backed up my iphone 3gs to i cloud as i want to restore to my iphone 5 the main item i want to keep is my text messages but it has not backed these up i have gone into settings on my iphone 3gs and into manage storage but there is no option to select to backup messages

Marcus.
I feel your pain.
I have experienced the exact thing. restore from itunes OR iCloud has successfully restored all my settings, EXCEPT EVERY-SINGLE-MSG. lol. Nothing. Even repeated it., no luck .
It seems to be a hit or miss.
I've read people from 3GS-i5, 4s-i5, not having the issue....meanwhile, you and I are lucky enough to have experienced it. Oh and also it's not across the board. Some people only lost certain SMS which weren't in their contacts...how odd?

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