I recently wanted to be able to save a whole iMessage conversation thread. I have my iMessage on my iPhone and Mac, I did LOTS of googling and was only coming up with various software to download and then buy the full version to be able to get more than last 10 messages.
I then found the print option..
On the Mac you need to scroll to the top of where you want to save or print from.
Then go to Messages – File – Print…
The on the pop up, bottom left where it says PDF, select Save as PDF
Make changes to file name / location and then save.
You then have a PDF copy of your whole iMessage conversation.
THIS IS AN AMAZING HACK!!!!! THANKS SO MUCH
YES!! Thank you all so much, like you said I could only find articles that made me download a software for my Mac and I did not want to do that. Thank you so much for such a helpful article!
I am trying to print off my entire chain of imessages on a Mac desktop. Tried your tips but “print” option is not available (grayed out) to me in file drop down. I know it’s now almost 2 years this was posted…I just installed the macOS Sierra. Is there a new trick now?
Thanks!
I am on version 10.12.1 of MacOS Sierra and it is working fine here – have you got the conversation selected?
Hi there,
You say On the Mac you need to scroll to the top of where you want to save or print from.” but if the conversation is on my iPhone, don’t I need to connect that to the Mac first via USB cable? How do I see those messages on my Mac in order to print them?
It only works on these instructions if you use iMessage on your Mac and the messages are already there. If you’ve not connected it / deleted it I don’t think it’s an option.
For some reason not all of my messages from my iPhone have downloaded to my iMessage. Does anyone know how to get them all to download?
This is amazing. Thank you so much!
Oh my gosh. This is amazing thank you so much for this information. I recently lost my mother and I did not want to chance losing our text messages. Thank you Thank you.
So glad it has helped you 🙂
OH thank you!! I, like Karen above, have text messages that I wanted to save from my Mac from a very important person that we all just lost. Wish it was this easy to do from our iPhones!!
Really glad it has helped you – all the best
Jo
Straight and to the point. Thanks for the help! 🙂
help! how do I get it to save the entire conversation, not just a page or two? thanks!
Did you scroll to the top of the conversation? It will then save it from there to the end as long as it is all loaded in iMessage on your mac
Brilliant! Thank you!
THank YOU! Perfect hack.