How to Read/view text messages on iPhone 5 and Print text messages

Hello, I heard that it is possible to access and view iPhone 5 text messages on computer and print text messages from iPhone 5, so, in the past days, I tried many methods to view iPhone messages on computer but failed, please help! Help suggest a way that I can access and read iPhone messages on computer and print text messages on iPhone! Thanks!


PS: My device is iPhone 5!

iPhone 3G, iOS 7.0.2

Posted on Dec 19, 2013 10:23 PM

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Dec 19, 2013 10:37 PM in response to dyj95

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Hey, You canont directly view your iPhone messages on computer or Mac, before this, you have to export or transfer text messages from iPhone to computer.Somebody says: backup iPhone with iTunes. Yeah, but this ways you still cannot read messages due to the backup file is inaccessable format.


Solution: It is highly recommend using Vibosoft iPhone/iPad/iPod backup extractor program, it can extract all data from iPhone to computer and print text messages.

Sep 12, 2014 5:48 AM in response to dyj95

I'm one of the developers for Decipher TextMessage, a program that will help you print your iPhone text messages. I've gotten feedback from many of our customers who use the software for that exact purpose, so I've spent some time adding features to help support using our printouts for court cases.


There's a plain-text printout export as well as a fancier export that you can use to print with the iPhone-like text bubbles and image previews. Everything includes the party names (from your phone contacts) as well as the phone number, so you should have all of the needed information on the printout. v I hope this helps! You can try a free trial of our program on our website: http://deciphertools.com


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Nov 21, 2014 12:27 AM in response to dyj95

An easy way to access and print text messages from iPhone is to email it to yourself.

Open the SMS message that you want to print;

tap and hold the message for a couple of seconds.

Tap the "Copy" button to copy the message text to the clipboard. Open the "Mail" app on your iPhone, enter your email address in the "To" field and then tap inside the message body text box and tap the "Paste" button when it appears to paste the contents of the text message.

Tap "Send," open the email on your desktop computer and print it out on your local printer.

You should note, though, that the time and date information does not transfer when you copy and paste the SMS message in an email.

Mar 17, 2015 8:46 PM in response to EstebanKinard

EstebanKinard wrote:


An easy way to access and transfer text messages from iPhone is to email it to yourself.

Open the SMS message that you want to print;

tap and hold the message for a couple of seconds.

Tap the "Copy" button to copy the message text to the clipboard. Open the "Mail" app on your iPhone, enter your email address in the "To" field and then tap inside the message body text box and tap the "Paste" button when it appears to paste the contents of the text message.

Tap "Send," open the email on your desktop computer and print it out on your local printer.

You should note, though, that the time and date information does not transfer when you copy and paste the SMS message in an email.

That would help to save texts but a little complicated.

May 28, 2015 9:28 PM in response to dyj95

Do we really need to use these apps? Can't we just take a screenshot by pressing the Home and the sleep/wake button simultaneously and forward this to our email address or Airprint it to a airtprint capable printer? There are many useful methods for transferring and printing text messages on a computer mentioned in this Oreilly discussion: http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/4184-how-to-print-out-iphone-sms-text-messageso n-pc/

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