Need to print out iPhone text messages

There is an app called PhoneView that lets you view and print your messages as a PDF. see it here http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/ P.S. I am not in any way affiliated with ecamm. :-)


If you want to print out few text messages then you can take the screen shots and email the pictures to your computer for printing or simply AirPrint the screenshots. You might also consider third party apps like Phoneview or Tansee to print out your text messages. This guide worth a look: http://www.iphone-to-pc.com/how-transfer-messages-iphone-pc.html


Okay, I think I see what's happening:

As it sounds like you may have already figured out, you can forward multiple texts by:

  1. Holding an individual text until the "copy/more" dialog pops up.
  2. Picking "More"
  3. Clicking the circle next to the left of each text you want to forward.
  4. Clicking the "share" arrow on the lower right
  5. Picking who you want to send them to

But, there are two possible problems:

  • The "recipient" you're picking in step 5 above is the recipient for a text or iMessage; there's no way to select email instead.
  • The forwarded texts lose the "speaker" indicator, so with multiple texts, it's a little hard to see who said what.

If you only care about getting the messages into an email (and don't need the speaker) first issue, the easiest solution is this:

  1. Go to the text you forwarded yourself with all the texts lumped together (that you got by following the 5 steps above)
  2. Hold your finger on it until "Copy/More" appears
  3. Pick copy
  4. Copy it into an email, and send it to yourself, print it, etc.

If you need to print something that indicates who was speaking, your best bet may be this:

  1. Go to the beginning of the dialogue you want in your texts.
  2. Hold the Home button, and press the power button without letting go of home.
  3. You'll see a white flash, indicating that the hone took a screen capture.
  4. If all the messages you needed didn't fit on one screen, scroll to the next set, and repeat.
  5. Once you have done this for all the messages you need, go to the "Photos" app, and open "Camera Roll" - you'll see those screen captures as the most recent images.
  6. Click "select" in the upper right corner, then select all the pics you need.
  7. Hit the "share" button in the lower left corner, then pic "Mail"

That will let you email yourself (or anyone else) printable images of the text conversation. Note that they'll be pics, so you can't edit the text, etc.


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.

I hope this helps! You can try a free trial of our program on our website: http://deciphertools.com