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How to Export iPhone Text Messages from iTunes Backup

By Achilles Hill | Last Updated

The process of iTunes backup generally completes automatically, and the backup is usually saved in formats that we can't easily recognize and read. Therefore, we couldn't view the detailed information about it naturally. There must be a great many of people curious about what is in the iTunes backup. We all wish we had a tool which can help us to view the contents without difficulties, especially when we want to restore iPhone from iTunes backup, as at least we need to know what we're going to restore, isn't it? So is a tool like that really available?

In fact, there are a lot of programs designed to export iPhone contents from iTunes backup or export contents from iPhone available in the market. However, some of them will probably bring unnecessary troubles at the same time. If you don't want to jailbreak iPhone to export iPhone messages or other contents to your computer, an effective and safe tool is very important and necessary. In the following part of this article, you will learn how to export iPhone text messages from iTunes backup to your computer with a tool called "iTwin" easily.

export iPhone SMS from iTunes backup

Steps to Export iPhone SMS from iTunes Backup with iTwin

Before we start, you may wonder what iTwin is. Actually, iTwin is a free and effective tool which can export iPhone message/contacts/calendar/notes/birthdays from iTunes backup to Windows computer. Steps to use it are very easy. Now follow the below instructions to learn how to use it to export iPhone SMS from iTunes Backup. By the way, this method is also applied to iPad.

Step 1: Install iTwin in your PC.

First of all, get iTwin downloaded. After you install it properly in your Windows computer, run it right now.

Step 2: Set the screen language to English.

As iTwin's default language is German, we'd better change its interface language to English in order to make it easy and intuitive to use. Then you can scan the iPhone message, contacts and other contents in this program in English. And now you can decide which ones are the options that you wish to get from iTunes backup on your computer.

iTwin screen language settings

Step 3: Do "Import" settings.

Click the Import tab, and set the import database information, including device and backup.

First, set the imported device, and its name should be the iPhone or iPad name you that have set. Then choose one backup you have created. But now you can see the latest iPad backup is shown in iTwin automatically.

imported ipad and iTunes backup settings

Step 4: Do "Export" settings.

Click the Export tab. This menu is available to set what you want to export from iTunes backup. Choose contents and set its type, and then click the Save as button to save it in your computer. For example, SMS can be saved in HTML or TXT format.

export iPhone or iPad SMS from iTunes backup

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