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How to back up your messages and save on storage space
- iMessage Exporter is a free tool for Mac that can back up your text messages (and iMessages). It creates a local backup with your full conversation history that you can search and read through.
- iMessage Exporter saves your messages in a rich file format that looks like a regular iMessage thread and allows you to include all attachments and pictures for maximum backup.
- If you back up your messages to a Mac, then you can comfortably delete your old messages from your phone, saving space
- You might already back up your messages in iCloud, but Apple charges an arm and a leg for space. You can save space (and money) by making a local backup and clearing out your cloud storage.
- To download the iMessage Exporter, go to GitHub’s Releases page. It is more complicated than downloading an app, but the article provides a step-by-step guide to running it on Mac.
- After making your local iMessage archive, to free up some iCloud space; Open Messages and go to Messages > Settings and just change the Keep Messages setting to One Year.
- If you mess up and want to run iMessage Exporter again with different settings, or you don’t think you need the backup, you can delete the backup file you created.
- The tool saves in your Home folder by default, and you can drag the imessage_export folder to the Trash and empty it.
- iMessage Exporter can't pull in contact names, using the Mac Terminal is challenging for those who are not fluent in command-line interfaces.
- However, this open-source tool indeed offers a quick and easy way to back up your messages without paying Apple for storage.
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