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Q: iPhone sms backup and restore

Hi

 

Why does the iTunes backup function not include the backing up of the SMS messages on my iPhone or a facility to restore these in the event of having a new iPhone etc?

 

The only means of doing this seems to be through a 3rd party app which is not ideal, and i would much rather prefer to do this within iTunes.

 

If i wanted to upgrade my iPhone 4 to the new iPhone 5, i would essentially lose nearly 2 years worth of texts, which i would prefer to avoid.

 

Surely there must be some way to 'copy' these over from one iPhone to another.

 

I have a program called iPhone SMS which i have used to export all my SMS to my PC, but there is no ability to then restore these.

 

Anyone know of a way to do this or why Apple dont provide this within iTunes?

 

Thanks

iPhone 4, Windows 7

Posted on Sep 24, 2012 4:23 AM

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  • by Brunooon,

    Brunooon Brunooon Sep 14, 2016 1:36 PM in response to ios decipher
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    Sep 14, 2016 1:36 PM in response to ios decipher

    Hello - I run "Erase All Content and Settings" on my iPhone5 where battery was very damaged "decrease 30% after 1 hour", I thought at least, and I have it only for music only default apps all was removed - after that iPhone has very good condition decrease "3% after 1 day" - so I want do that repeatedly on my iPhone6 with today new iOS10 - but there is problem with sms still. I don't want backup whole 50GB of data I don't have even place for that.

     

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