Getting text messages off phone for court

[Family Court Strategies: When Your Partner Has BPD OR NPD Traits.]

Does anyone know an easy reliable way to print your text messages off an iPhone? I will need them for court and I tried taking screen shots of the messages but my button for doing that is broken.

[knowledgeseeker]

Does anyone know an easy reliable way to print your text messages off an iPhone? I will need them for court and I tried taking screen shots of the messages but my button for doing that is broken.

[ForeverDad]

Others may chime in and even recommend what worked best for them, whether iPhone, Android, Windows Phone or whatever.  (Hint to the others here, please expand on this topic, I need to download texts from my old dying Android phone since they didn't copy to my new phone!)

I ended up buying an iPhone for the sole purpose of exporting texts. Phoneview actually prints out the way the texts look on the phone -- it's as though the judge is seeing them on the screen, time-stamped and in chronological order. Every time I plugged the phone in to my computer, the texts were backed up, as well as every voice mail message. You can then save the pages of texts as a PDF and print it out. I printed out hundreds of pages and then my L flagged the ones she wanted to use. In one of our hearings she had me read through dozens of them and then she would ask me how I felt when i received those texts.

I found the Android versions were too awkward to use and one of them dumped things out into a spreadsheet, and that didn't look credible. The volume that I was getting was too high to be fiddling all the time with the program.

Android users may be able to use SMS Backup from the Google Play store and use it to back up SMS messages to your Gmail account:

www.howtogeek.com/112852/how-to-backup-your-text-messages-to-your-gmail-account/

[Nope]

There are actually a lot of SMS backup apps available from any app store. But for our case DH just took screen shots and then downloaded those into a cold on our laptop. If you do that be sure the time and date is showing and maybe a little bit of the text from the prior page so the court can see you haven't skipped anything. The positive of doing it this way is that the court can see the texts exactly as you saw them. The negative is that depending on how much texting ex does it can be very time consuming.

[livednlearned]

I used phoneview for my iPhone -- I think it costs roughly $20. It's worth it -- you can actually print out the text messages exactly as they appear on your phone (as a PDF), lending a degree of credibility I found important in my case.

Especially when there are pages, and pages, and pages of single-word insults, over and over and over and over. It translated "he sent 50 text messages" into something much more tangible for the judge to see.

[Teereese]

 

I used an app called Text to Email for my android phone.

It saves the texts in PDF form, which is great if there are a lot of texts.

I was considering screenshots but they would have taken up a lot of storage and cost a small fortune to print out.

Text to Email was free amd easy to use. Only problem that I had was ot does not process/convert MMS messages - long texts, emojis or pictures.