How do I back-up my iPhone to my laptop?

If you have a Mac click here-> Back up with your Mac

If you have a Windows PC click here-> Back up with your PC

Do note, Messages cannot be accessed from the backup. You cannot export them, and the only way to actually print them, is to screen capture them from within the Messages App.

If the messages are SMS messages, you can contact your carrier for a print out of all SMS messages sent through them.

Carolyn-101 wrote:

How do I back up my iPhone to me computer? I want to print out text messages.

To print out text messages the easiest way is with a 3rd party app on your computer such as TouchCopy, which is available for Mac & Windows and can print text messages directly from your phone when it is attached to your computer. Another useful app is IMazing, which can extract data from a computer backup as well as directly from your phone. There are other 3rd party apps that can export and print data from a computer backup; google “iPhone backup extractor”. There’s even one that can extract data from iCloud backups. It is expensive by current standards, however.