![]() ![]() For Macs running Monterey, Big Sur, or Catalina, you now backup via Finder instead of iTunes to save messages. Never lose important conversations again Features: Quickly read text messages from your iTunes backup of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. I think if windows backups are stored the same way, the same python code should work there as well. Decipher TextMessage lets you save your iPhone SMS text messages to your computer. (The price is free, I've successfully tested on macOS with an iOS 14 backup. This script might be a good starting point if you're interested in doing these backups yourself. The result is a kind of hacky but working (for me) tool that I've uploaded to GitHub: iPhone message export. I wanted to future-proof my exported messages (or make their contents human-readable and easily accessible), so I wrote a script to load these database, export the chats as JSON files, and archive all the attachments alongside each chat (message group). Combining the manifest and sms databases lets you query and export all the conversations and attachments from decrypted files in your backup directory.The Library/SMS/sms.db file on your iPhone is another database containing all the message and attachment data.The manifest.db is an SQLite database mapping all the files in that directory to actual filenames on the device.Your backup lives inside ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup//. ![]() You can actually do this yourself if you're particular about how the data is exported. They all rely on interpreting data from an unencrypted iPhone backup. There are numerous tools (as linked elsewhere here), both free and expensive, to export message data.
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