Hi, I have iMessages on my old iPad that I don’t want to lose. How can I either move them to my new 7th generation iPad, or to a removable device? (None of the iTunes options/icons appear on my old iPad)
thanks
iPad 2, iOS 9
You can’t move them to an external device, but you can easily synchronise them to another iPad/iPhone that is logged-in to iCloud with the same AppleID:
On all devices that you wish to synchronise Messages:
Settings > [Your Name / AppleID] > iCloud > Messages
Optionally on your iPhone:
Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding - explicitly enable each device that should receive/send forwarded messages.
You can’t move them to an external device, but you can easily synchronise them to another iPad/iPhone that is logged-in to iCloud with the same AppleID:
On all devices that you wish to synchronise Messages:
Settings > [Your Name / AppleID] > iCloud > Messages
Optionally on your iPhone:
Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding - explicitly enable each device that should receive/send forwarded messages.
You can also get a 3rd party program for your computer and take those messages off the iPad and archive them on the computer. This is especially good if you are no longer using the iPad. PhoneView is one that works on the Mac, and TouchCopy works on both Windows and Mac. It does much more than just Messages.
Hi cheers for that....how exactly do I do that?
I don’t have another computer....just another iPad 😕
Okay.
Securing old imessages on ipad2
