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How to download iPhone text messages to the computer?

The use of texts messages now is very common than when people are making calls. The text messages are now an essential conversation on your iPhone that are very significant kinds of communication with friends, family, loved one, coworkers and even with your boss. Perhaps a friend sent you a funny joke that you would like to save or possibly you need to produce a backup of your text for legal purposes. It can also be that some texts are so important that losing them may cause you greatly; you may want to even print them out and keep. Whatever the good reason, iLike will enable you to access and save your valuable iPhone's text messages to your computer.

In this article you will learn the simple way to use iLike to export your iPhone text messages and any other attachment to the messages to your computer.

In this article you will learn the simple way to use iLike to export your iPhone text messages and any other attachment to the messages to your computer.

• You need iLike installed on your iPhone
• Fully charged iPhone
• Fully charged Laptop or computer or Macintosh personal computer with iTunes installed
• Your USB cable to connect your iPhone to your laptop

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Now these are the steps to follow to transfer or download text messages from an iPhone to your personal computer:

• Connect your iPhone to your computer and open up iLike.
• Click on the Data tabs in the device overview display and click on the messages button.
• In the event that you have not yet created an iTunes back-up on your computer, the system will ask you if you will like to back up just choose yes. If you already have a back-up, but older than 24 hours, iLike will ask you if you would like to use Last Back-up or Refresh to make a new one.
• Once iLike has completed loading your Text messages, you may choose conversation from the left window. There will be one icon at the top of the conversation use it to view them and filter by date-range, show attachments only, or export the complete conversation to your computer.
• You may not want to transfer or download all conversation, you can choose the messages bubble, or multiples, and then click on the "Export # messages" button

In-Depth Tutorial

iLike is an essential tool and it can load, read and export text messages that are either on your iPhone or the ones that you have saved in an iTunes Back on your pc. This in-depth tutorial will show you both options.

Access Test messages on your iPhone device

Export or transfer text messages from your iPhone to computer
To access text messages from your iPhone, open iLike and connect your iPhone to your personal computer. Once this is done, you should see the Device Overview display. From there, go to Data --> then go to Messages or you can go to backups from the left column under your device’s name --> then to Messages.

Now to Access Text messages in an iTunes back up

When you make a backup of your iPhone using iTunes, your text messages are kept to your personal computer; however they get hidden deep within various semi-encrypted databases. iLike can do the heavy lifting for you and make these messages easily available and prettily formatted for you so that you can read and export them on your pc.

To access text messages from an iPhone Back-up, you will need to open iLike first, then you will click Explore Backups. From your left column, under the Browse iTunes Backups section, choose the backup you want to work use. Then within the back-up choose, Messages.

Viewing, Searching and Exporting iPhone Text Messages

After you might have clicked Messages either from an iPhone back-up or a presently linked iPhone device, iLike will load your text messages database. On the left column, you will see your conversation list. You may sort the list by name, time frame and number of Messages.

After choosing the dialog, you can choose from several export options such as .html, .TXT, or .vcf format including a choice to export all your conversations in one transfer. You can even filtering & export images, videos, and other attachments from text discussions.


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