How To Backup And Read IPhone Messages On Windows And Mac

Since the debut of iOS 5, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad owners have been able to enjoy encrypted, free messages between them thanks to iMessage. However, being such an essential aspect of everyone’s lives (as much as email in some cases), it is important to know how to keep your messages safe and protected in case something happens to your iPhone or other iOS device. Here’s is how you can do it and also how you can read your message backups on your computer without your iPhone. Step 1: To start, you will need to perform a local backup of your iOS device via iTunes to have all its information on your Mac or PC. To do so, just open iTunes on your computer and plug in your iPhone (or wait for it to show up if you have wireless syncing enabled). Once it does, click on its main information window and click on Back Up Now under Manually Backup and Restore. The backup process might take a while, so be patient.