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Thursday 6 March 2014

How to back up and restore Messages on a fresh iOS install

Backing up and restoring Messages


Backing up the iPhone has always been an interesting phenomenon. iTunes makes backing up your iOS device inherently easy, and iCloud, when you have enough space to store all of your files, makes it even simpler. Unfortunately, people still seem to have lots of questions about backing up their devices.


One of the main issues that makes backing up such a questionable process, is the way that backups are handled in the first place. For starters, backing up your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is basically an all or nothing affair. It’s the clothes, the appliances and the kitchen sink, or it’s nothing.


One of the biggest questions that always seems to come up involves backing up and restoring just the SMS and iMessage messages found in the Messages app. Of course, you can perform a normal iTunes backup, and grab all of your messages and the kitchen sink as well, but that’s not a viable solution for everyone.


With that in mind, what do you do if you want to backup and restore only your text messages (iMessages and SMS messages) and keep everything else clean and fresh? Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t provide a way to do this with either iCloud backups or iTunes backups, but it can be done.


There are many reasons as to why you’d want to create a fresh backup and restore and maintain your SMS messages. Perhaps you’d even like to transfer your Messages to a separate device?


In this tutorial, we will show you how to backup your iPhone SMS and Messages, no jailbreak required. We’ll also show you how to import these SMS and Messages back in the same iPhone or a different one. Check inside as I walk you through the entire step-by-step process.(...)

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