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Text2Store
Back up your iPhone or iPad messages. Keep them forever.
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Back up your iPhone or iPad messages. Keep them forever.
8 followers
Text2Store is a desktop app for macOS and Windows that backs up your iPhone's text messages locally over USB or WIFI, then lets you browse, search, archive, and export them. No cloud, no per-device fees; one plan covers every iPhone, iPad, and computer you own. Download for Mac and Windows.
Finally a backup tool that keeps everything local over USB, the wifi option is a nice bonus too. Search worked fast on a couple thousand messages I tested with.
Finally a tool that keeps my iPhone texts off the cloud and still lets me search them like email. The local backup over USB took about two minutes for 40k messages.
One thing I'd love to see is a timeline view that groups messages by day with little previews, makes scrolling through years of texts way less tedious than the current list layout. Could be a nice toggle alongside the search view.