Wednesday, February 11, 2015

How to Print Text Messages from iPhone 6S, 6, 5S, 5, 4S

Text messaging has become a vital part of communication in our daily life. Sometimes you may get some important information via SMS that you want to keep and print for further usage. For example, I found this question in Apple Discussion: "Need to print some text messages I exchanged on my iPhone 5S for a court case. How can I do this?" Whatever the reason is, there is always a way to save and print text messages from iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, etc. Below are several approaches to help you do that. Have a try!

Option 1: Take a Screeshot
If you don't have a lot of text messages to print, taking a screenshot and emailing them to yourself can be a nice option. To do this, position the text message on the screen and press the "Sleep/Wake" and "Home" buttons at the same time. Your iPhone will put the screenshot in your Camera Roll and you can email it to yourself to be printed later.

Option 2: Copy and Paste
If you don't need to retain all of the formatting and time and data stamps, you can also copy and paste entire message threads into an email. Open the message thread that you want to save, touch "Edit", select all of the messages, copy and paste them into an email for printing.

Option 3: Print Text Messages from iPhone Backup
Apple iTunes also backs up your text messages when you sync your iPhone. To access your messages from the iTunes backup, we recommend you use Free iPhone Backup Extractor. This freeware can help you print iPhone text messages on your computer effortlessly in no time. Check the following step-by-step guide:

Preparation: If you don't have available backup, please backup your iPhone data with iTunes first.

1. Download Free iPhone Backup Extractor from its official site. Then install it on your computer.
2. Run the program, it will automatically scan all iTunes backup files on the PC. Go through them and select the one of your iPhone and hit "Next".
3. Choose "Text Messages" from the listed file types and click on the "Next" button to start scanning messages in the backup.
4. After scanning, preview the extracted text messages in detail and then hit "Print" to print text messages form iPhone.               

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