Restoring Messages From Mac To iPhone

I just bought a new iPhone today, unfortunately I had no back ups to restore from iCloud, nbd. I do, however, have all of my old text chains saved on my iMac as the iMessages went to both my phone and iMac. Both are on the same appleID, and I have toggled the sync function on icloud for messages and the messages app on my Mac. How can I get all of the messages from my computer onto my new iPhone. Seems like this shouldn't be a difficult thing to do, but, I am completely stumped!

iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 16

Posted on Dec 31, 2023 6:44 PM

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Jan 1, 2024 12:12 AM in response to FranklinDRoss

FranklinDRoss wrote:

I just bought a new iPhone today, unfortunately I had no back ups to restore from iCloud, nbd. I do, however, have all of my old text chains saved on my iMac as the iMessages went to both my phone and iMac. Both are on the same appleID, and I have toggled the sync function on icloud for messages and the messages app on my Mac. How can I get all of the messages from my computer onto my new iPhone. Seems like this shouldn't be a difficult thing to do, but, I am completely stumped!

You don't since you don't have a backup, that is the only way to retrieved the data and put it back on your phone.

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