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Backup iPhone Text Messages

September 27th, 2009 - How to, OS X Apps, Tips & Tricks, iPhone, iTunes

iphone-text-messages-backup Backing up your iPhone text messages is made extremely easy thanks to a freeware utility called Syphone. Since the iPhone has a limited number of text messages it can store at any one time, Syphone allows you to backup all the text messages and read through the archived text messages yourself on your Mac in an easy to read iChat-like interface. The full feature list is quite nice:

* View synced iPhone SMS messages on your Macintosh
* Archive SMS messages
* Import/export SMS messages
* View SMS messages offline in an iChat-like interface with selectable colors
* Open Address Book contacts
* View the number of sent and received messages for each contact
* Support multiple iPhones

After downloading Syphone, all you’ll need to do is launch the program when your iPhone is connected and you’ll be able to start backing up all your iPhone SMS messages. The real question is, why does Apple not include this incredibly useful feature by default with iTunes?

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Note: Syphone has not been updated to work with anything beyond iPhone 2.0 which sort of makes it useless for the time being, thank you to Jack Frost for pointing this out

Posted by: Paul Horowitz

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Comments: 9

Comment from Boo
Time: September 30, 2009, 12:36 am

Running it on Snow Leopard doesn’t work. The iPhone 3G is connected, but it still says “No iPhones found!” :(

Comment from Jack Frost
Time: September 30, 2009, 10:53 am

The app was released in 2007, and according to their forum, only works with iPhone version 2.0 or older – with no plans to update.

I think that’s useful information that should be worth mentioning both on their product page and also here in this entry.

Comment from backup sms
Time: September 30, 2009, 11:40 am

try this instead

http://insend.de/index.php?l=en

Comment from Jack Frost
Time: October 2, 2009, 11:39 am

Yeah, thanks for the commercial app spam, “backup sms”.

Comment from Jeff Preston
Time: October 18, 2009, 10:42 am

We had more than 50,000 SMS messages on our iPhone and Syphone was crashing. Eventually I find PhoneView which it turns out I already owned because of Mac Heist 3. PhoneView did the trick and it let me get my MMS too!

Comment from DanY
Time: October 20, 2009, 3:46 pm

Thanks. This is good for mac users. But for Windows users, I use this iPhone to pc backup program called Tansee iPhone Transfer SMS

http://www.gutensoft.com/Utilities/Tansee-iPhone-Transfer-SMS.htm

Hope it helps.

Comment from BadGirl57
Time: October 23, 2009, 3:20 am

When Rerun realizes this, he starts to run after the truck, with no success. ,

Comment from Paula
Time: November 24, 2009, 4:43 pm

I have backed up my iPhone sms with your guide. Thanks.
But if you want to backup your music, videos, photos, podcasts and TV Shows between iPod/iPhone and Mac and add them to your local iTunes library, here is a tip:
http://www.ipod-tool.com/mac-tools/imacsoft-iphone-to-mac-transfer.html

Comment from Steven
Time: January 11, 2010, 10:32 am

I don’t think it’s a good idea to use insend’s iphone backup sms extractor. You have to upload your messages and contacts to some website and get back a report. Doesn’t make me feel good

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