Moving (copying) text-chains from Android onto iMac?

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Moving (copying) text-chains from Android onto iMac?

Is there a way to transfer (copy) whole threads of my Android's phone-messages over to my iMac?

As a way of "backing up" chat-threads with certain people, having them on the iMac on same machine with the regular Mail e-mails from same people, being able to see sent photos on a LARGER screen, wanting things to not be "on my phone" anymore but still keep them, etc.?

I can't see where AppStore has anything like that. I'm wondering if it's an Android app I can get (to PUSH to iMac), or an Apple app (to PULL from Android to iMac), or maybe even just a trick of hooking the 2 machines (phone & iMac) together then punching some code into Terminal or something like that?

Thanks for any solutions.

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Apr 24, 2023 2:53 PM

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den.thed

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Apr 27, 2023 4:17 PM in response to SummerHaven

Android File Transfer can copy Photos and Files from the Android Phone to the iMac. I use it regularly to move photos from the wife's android phone to our Mac's.

The problem here is that you need to copy the photos from the text message into the Pictures/Photo App on the ZTE, so that you can use Android File Transfer to transfer them from the Pictures/Photo App to your iMac.

see > https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch002262.htm

Copy the whole text message to a file so that it can be transferred to your iMac, is a totally different bag of pain.

see > https://www.wikihow.com/Copy-an-Entire-Text-Conversation-on-Android

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BDAqua

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Apr 24, 2023 7:13 PM in response to SummerHaven

Look into Android File Transfer...

https://www.android.com/filetransfer/

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SummerHaven Author

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Apr 25, 2023 6:28 PM in response to BDAqua

Thanks. I already have AFT, but I don't see anywhere, when googling around, about how to transfer a complete chat-thread from Android to iMac using AFT. I just see transferring documents one at a time, photos one at a time, nothing about Android Messages at all. Maybe there just is no way, then, to save Android text-threads onto Mac in any way at all. Guess I just have to get used to that?

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SummerHaven Author

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Apr 27, 2023 3:45 PM in response to BDAqua

Thanks anyway for trying.

Maybe someone else here would know?

I can also do some more research, or ask my phone's provider (Consumer Cellular, who sold me the Android, a ZTE) if they know how to get "Android File Transfer" to do it.

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SummerHaven Author

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Apr 27, 2023 3:49 PM in response to SummerHaven

Funny how a program named "Android File Transfer", which sounds like it can easily do all kinds of "magic" like saving text-streams to your laptop (or other backup-device), doesn't seem capable of doing much of anything! From what I see so far.

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BDAqua

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Apr 25, 2023 7:15 PM in response to SummerHaven

I was thinking there was a a way to Select All & Save, or eMail it, but can't see a way to do it here. :(

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Moving (copying) text-chains from Android onto iMac?

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