How to save text messages as PDF

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Introduction

This article provides a quick walkthrough on how to save your Android text message conversations to your PC in a PDF format using the Droid Transfer App.

Droid Transfer for PC works alongside the Android app, Transfer Companion, enabling you to save your Android Messages to your PC in various file formats. You can export text messages from Android to PDF, or save text messages as Plain Text or HTML formats. Droid Transfer also lets you print text messages directly to your PC connected printer.

Droid Transfer saves all the images, videos and emojis included in your text messages on your Android phone.

Summary

Here's how to save your Android phone text messages to your PC in a PDF format...

1. Download and install Droid Transfer (link below)
2. Connect to your Android Device using the steps shown in our Start Guide.
3. Click 'Messages' in the features listed in Droid Transfer.
   
4. Select the conversations you wish to save from the recipient list in Droid Transfer.
5. Click 'Save PDF'.
6. Select the location on your PC where you wish to save your messages.
7. A copy of your selected messages will be saved in a PDF format to your PC.

You can download Droid Transfer for PC and the Transfer Companion app below...

Free Droid Transfer Download

Detailed Steps

Run Droid Transfer on your PC and connect to your Android Device running Transfer Companion as described in our Setup Guide.

How to Save Text Messages Android - In Droid Transfer Click the Messages Icon - Droid Transfer shows the message conversations on the available on your Android Device. Note that the messages displayed are those you've sent and received using your default messaging app on your Android device. If you wish to display message conversation you've had using another app, such as for example Textra SMS, please select this as your default messaging app in your device settings.

Select the text message conversation you want to save to your PC. Droid Transfer shows all the messages (sent and received) in that conversation, as well as any images and emojis.

Click the 'Save PDF' option in the control bar.

Select where on your PC you would like to save the PDF file containing a copy of the text message conversation. Then click 'OK'.

Droid Transfer copies the text messages from your Android phone and converts them to PDF format. The PDF file is then saved to your PC.

Once Droid Transfer has saved your text messages in PDF format to your computer, you can open the PDF document in any PDF document viewer to see all the text messages.

And that's how to download text messages Android. Now you have all the tools you need. I hope you found this useful!

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Are you curious about how to save your iPhone text messages as a PDF document and print out the messages on your PC or Mac? Today we're going to show you the quick steps on how to accomplish that task.

Saving and printing text messages in PDF format is helpful for a wide variety of circumstances including for business purposes, court or trial, preserving family memories, monitoring of a teen or child's texts, real estate transactions, or even just personal archiving of text messages between friends and loved ones. Let's get started:

Necessary items

• Windows or Mac computer

• iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch - You need to be able to back up your iOS device on your computer via iTunes. Note: If you are on a Mac that is running macOS Monterey, Catalina, or Big Sur, iTunes is no longer needed. You can simply back up your iPhone via the Finder.

• Decipher TextMessage - The software runs on your computer and will read in all your text messages and photo attachments and enable you save and print text messages as a PDF file.

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How to save text messages as a PDF

Specific steps to export and save iPhone text messages as a PDF document:

1. Back up the iPhone on your computer.
2. Launch Decipher TextMessage.
3. Select your iPhone and pick a contact whose text messages you need to save as a PDF.
4. Choose Export Current Conversation as PDF.
5. Save the PDF of the text messages to your computer.
6. Open the PDF, choose Print to print out iPhone text messages and iMessages.

Below is a screenshot of what a PDF of text messages looks like after they are exported and saved. Note that the contact info and time/date stamp is on every single text message! This is a unique feature of Decipher TextMessage.

Additionally, the PDF will include any photo attachments inline with the messages just as they appear on the iPhone or iPad itself. If needed, you can also export a separate folder containing just the photo and video attachments.

Save text messages as a PDF for a specific date range or time period

If you have a large amount of text messages from a specific contact but only want to save messages from certain dates, you can easily narrow down the SMS messages that you PDF and print by selecting the "Export via PDF with date range" option. This will let you specify the exact date range of the text messages that you need to capture and save.

In addition to being able to print the PDF of all your text messages, keep in mind that you also have the ability to email the PDF to colleagues or friends as well as save the PDF document to an external hard drive or cloud storage option of your choice.

Save iPhone text messages as a PDF - Video Instructions

Our step-by-step YouTube video will walk you through how to export and print your iPhone text messages as a PDF on your PC or Mac computer. Feel free to watch and follow along!

That covers it for today's overview and quick steps on how to save your iPhone text messages as a PDF so you can print out all your important text messages and iMessages.

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