{"id":7802,"date":"2015-10-16T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T07:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=7802"},"modified":"2015-10-10T14:03:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T21:03:13","slug":"exporting-text-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=7802","title":{"rendered":"Exporting Text Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know the cops or a vicious divorce attorney can do it. How about you? When you want to save a copy of a text message thread, is there a better way to go about it than long-press\/copy\/paste? You bet there is!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTo save more than a single SMS (text message) cartoon bubble, you must look outside the apps that came with your Android phone and visit the Play Store. Search for &#8220;SMS Export&#8221; or something similar.<\/p>\n<p>One app I found and use is called <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore\" target=\"_blank\">SMS Backup &#038; Restore<\/a>. This app offers a good range of features for archiving single messages as well as saving the messages locally or sharing them with cloud storage.<\/p>\n<p>In Figure 1, you see the main SMS Backup &#038; Restore backup screen. Options are available for archiving the entire SMS library, individual messages, and whether or not to backup locally or upload to the cloud.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7808\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7808\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1016-figure1.png\" alt=\"Figure 1. The SMS Backup &amp; Restore app.\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1016-figure1.png 281w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1016-figure1-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. The SMS Backup &#038; Restore app.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I choose to backup my phone&#8217;s messages locally, on the phone&#8217;s internal storage. Then I use the File Manager app to move the SMS archive to my Dropbox folder for long-term storage.<\/p>\n<p>Other, similar apps are available at the Play Store, including apps that archive your text messages to Gmail.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not certain whether this is the app that law enforcement or the courts use to pull information from a phone&#8217;s text messaging app, but it works!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to archive messages from your Android phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-7802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7812,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7802\/revisions\/7812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}