iPhone: Back up SMS messages - how it works

If it is important to you to back up the SMS messages on your iPhone, the fastest way to do this is by creating a backup of all your data. Find out how to create a backup and what other options are available to protect your SMS messages from loss in our article.

How to backup your SMS messages with iTunes

To protect the SMS messages that are on your iPhone from loss, you can backup them using iTunes. To use this method to backup, please launch iTunes on your PC and connect your iPhone to the computer via USB cable. After that, click the name of your iPhone in the upper left corner of iTunes to go to the overview page. Now still activate the option "This computer" and click on "Backup now" to save a backup of all your data, including SMS messages, on the PC.

There is this further option to backup your SMS messages

In addition to the procedure described above, you can also find a number of free tools on the Internet.

1. For this purpose, download a software such as "CopyTransContacts" to your PC and run the EXE file to use it even without installation.
2. After that, connect your iPhone to the PC via USB cable and click on "Start" in CopyTransContacts.
3. In the program, switch to the "Messages" section afterwards and select the SMS messages you want to backup.
4. After clicking on "Export selected", it is still necessary to select a format and a location before the messages are backed up.