How to Backup Messages from iPhone X to Computer

Summary: How to backup messages from iPhone X to computer? Is it possible to do it without iTunes? iRefone is simply and quickly export messages.

iPhone messages is the conventional and important way to communicate with others. Sometimes, these messages may contain useful information you need. Thus, do you want to save iPhone messages to your computer for better storage and management? Below post works for backing up messages from iPhone X to computer.

Method 1: Backup iPhone X Messages to Computer with iRefone

iRefone is specifically designed to recover and backup iPhone data. It supports to nearly all data kinds on your iPhone like messages, notes, contacts, wechat, whatsapp, etc. Backing up iPhone X messages to computer can be easily accomplished by iRefone with few simple clicks. Besides, you are allowed to preview these messages in the software interface so that you could selectively choose these messages as you need.

1.Choose the version you need and download iRefone.

Window version/Mac version

2.Run iRefone and connect your iPhone X with computer. If it is the first time that you connect iPhone X to computer, just click on “Trust the computer” to go on. Then the software will detect your device automatically. Click “Start” to enter the next interface.



3.Then it will ask you to choose the data you need to scan in iPhone. Click on the icon of Messages to start the scanning.



4.When the scanning is finished, all of the messages on your iPhone will be displayed. You could preview these messages content in the software and select these you need. Then click on “Recover to PC” to save these data.

Method 2: Backup iPhone X Messages to Computer with iTunes

If you choose iTunes to save iPhone text messages to PC or Mac, this can be divided into two steps: the first is backing up iPhone data file with iTunes, and then use an iPhone backup extractor to export and read text messages as TXT, CSV, and HTML file on PC or Mac

Back up iPhone text messages with iTunes

1. Before you make an iPhone backup, ensure the latest iTunes version has been installed on your PC or Mac.

2. Run iTunes on the Windows PC or Mac.

3. Connect your iPhone to the computer with the original USB cable, which is to avoid the iPhone cannot connect to iTunes error. If this problem happens, check how to fix it.

4. Choose File > Devices > Backup.

5.After the backup progress has finished, a backup file of your phone's contents will be generated.

Save iPhone X text messages from iTunes backup to PC/Mac

Technically speaking, the iTunes backup files are encrypted for data safety. If you want to save and read the text messages on PC or Mac, you can use iRefone to export and save the text messages as TXT, CSV, and HTML files to your Windows PC or Mac for better viewing.