How to Transfer Text Messages Between iPhone and Mac

“I have a MacBook and I want to transfer all SMS in my iPhone X to my Mac. Is there any way possible that I take transfer text messages and manage them on my MacBook? Any of your suggestions will be appreciated, thanks in advance!”

You should have to keep your favorite texts from family and friends, and have a way to save your most significant messages from work. Unfortunately, your iPhone 6 messages can disappear for mistaken deletion, iOS update failed jailbreaking or some other unexpected reasons. So many iPhone users would like to backup their important messages so as to avoid SMS losing. To backup SMS from iPhone 6 to Mac, we will show an easy and efficient way to transfer text messages from iPhone to Mac and export SMS from Mac to iPhone with a few clicks.

The following guidance will show you two parts to help you know more about data transfer between iPhone and Mac, and you can free download the software to have a try. You can transfer text messages between iPhone and Mac easily and completely. No matter your are iPhone for iPhone 12/11, iPhone XS/XR, iPhone 8/7/6S/6/5S/5/4S or Mac users for iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro run with OS X El Capitan or ealier OS version. Now keep on reading and begin your data transferation.

Part 1 How to Backup SMS from iPhone to Mac

Phone Transfer program is an all-in-one transfer tool, allows you to manage your iPhone with ease. It can easily and quickly help you transfer messages, notes, contacts, music, playlists, movies, apps, photos, books, and other type of files from your iPhone to Mac. Besides, it keeps the messages in PDF/HTML/TXT format on your Mac so you can read or even print out the texts for forever preservation.

Step 1. Connect your phone to the computer

Connect your device to the computer. Run the module "Backup" after you open MobileTrans.

Step 2. Select file types and begin backup

After that, MobileTrans will load all supported file types. It supports different file types for iPhone and Android phones. Select the file types you want to back up and click on "Start".

Here is an example for iPhone's file types to backup:

This is the supported file types for Android phones:

Step 3. Backup completed

Keep your phone connected and back up will complete in a while. You can view what's backed up using Restore from the "MobileTrans backup file" on the "Restore" module.

Part 2 How to Transfer Text Messages from Mac to iPhone

 
If you have transfer your text messages to iCloud or Gmail before, you can easily get SMS back to your iPhone. Otherwise, you can use Phone Transfer tool to import all SMS from Mac to iPhone. Fortunately, here you will be shown on how to transfer Gmail text messages to iPhone.

1. Upload SMS from Mac to Gmail

Step 1. Open Google browser on the internet and sign in your account and land Gmail page.
Step 2. On the left column, click Gmail > SMS to show the messages control panel.
Step 3. Click More to show its pull-down menu. Choose Import…. In the pop-up dialog, click Choose File.
Step 4. Browse your Mac to find the saved CSV or vCard file where SMS are saved. Then, click Open > Import to import your text messages to Gmail.

2. Sync Google SMS to iPhone

Step 5. On your iPhone running iOS 5/6, tap Settings. Scroll down to find Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Tap Add Account and choose Google.
Step 6. Fill out your name, Email, password and description. (Turn on Wi-Fi network).
Step 7. Tap Next and turn on “Messages”. Then, tap “Save” to sync Gmail messages to iPhone. When the sync is finished, go to SMS app and Google messages will be right there.



If your iPhone is running iOS 7 or later, here to learn how to sync Gmail SMS.

Step 5. Open the Settings app on your device.
Step 6. Select Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
Step 7. Select Add Account.
Step 8. Select Google.
Step 9. Fill out your account information in the following fields:
**Name: Enter your name
**User Name: Enter your full Google Account or Google Apps email address.
**Password: Your Google Account or Google Apps password. (If you’ve enabled 2 Step verification, you’ll need to generate and enter an application specific password.)
**Description: Enter a description of the account (e.g. Personal SMS).
Step 10. Select “Next” at the top of your screen.
Step 11. Make sure that the "Messages" option is turned ON. The switch should be green.
Step 12. Select Save at the top of your screen.

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