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How to download an entire text conversation? (alien.top)
submitted 9 months ago by februarytide-@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch
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I am moving my "work life" over to google voice to get better separation from my "personal life" (i.e. I don't want to see my boss' damn name in my text messages), and want to download the entire thread I have with a couple of work contacts. So far, I haven't found any way to do this without sitting there clicking every single message in the conversation going back almost two years. Does anyone know of a good way to achieve this?

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[–] MangyCanine@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you're talking about iMessage messages and not google voice messages, the paid ($$$) iMazing program for the PC or Mac can save entire iMessage conversations to a PDF. However, it only puts maybe 15-20 messages on a page (less if you have pictures), and that can result in a long PDF file. I once saved a big thread just to see if iMazing could handle it (it could and did), and I ended up with over 650 pages in the PDF file.

[–] februarytide-@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I downloaded imazing after searching for a free app, only to find it’s paid lol. But if it works well and nothing else fits the bill, it might be worth it for me!

[–] MangyCanine@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isn't there a short trial period?

[–] februarytide-@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wasn’t sure if I would lose access to whatever it rips after the trial? Worth investigating!

[–] MangyCanine@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Well, you'd lose access to iMazing after the trial but, if you converted your messages to PDF, you would still have the PDF files (I don't know if the trial limits you to some max number of saved/converted messages, though).