How to Access and Extract Messages from iPhone Backup?

If you have the need for accessing iPhone backup file and want to extract messages from iPhone backup, you have come to the right place. Because we will guide you through how to access iTunes backup and read the text messages in it, and this method works on both Windows and Mac operating system.

Why You can’t Read iPhone Backup?

When you use iTunes to create a backup of your iPhone or iPad, the SMS messages are kept deeply in iTunes backup file on your computer, within various semi-encrypted databases. Hence, you are not allowed to read the iTunes backup data directly on PC.

Solution to Access iPhone Messages from Backup on Computer?

Fret no more, just to download this iPhone Backup Extractor which can do that difficult stuff for you. It works as an iPhone messages viewer and makes you easily access and read iPhone backup file on your computer.

No matter you use a Windows computer or Mac computer, you can choose the right version for your computer, which is free to try and has a easy-to-use interface. Next, let's go through the easy steps:

• Once you install and run the program, you can choose any of the iTunes backup files found on your computer. 

• After you choose an iTunes backup, the program will then ask you to choose which kind of data you want to scan, so that it won’t scan the whole backup and save you time.

• After waiting a few minutes, the program should finish loading the details of your iPhone text messages. Then you can see and read all your messages that are well displayed on the program preview window.

How to Get Messages from iPhone Backup to Computer?

Once this iPhone Message Extractor has loaded your messages from iTunes backup, it will enable you to extract the text messages from iPhone backup to computer in HTML, TXT, and EXCEL format.

Now simply select the messages you want to export to your PC, and hit the “Recover” button at the bottom right corner of the program interface. After that, there appears a pop-up window prompting you to save the output files to a certain location.

If you have questions that aren't addressed here or have problems during the usage of the program, please feel free to contact to contact the support team support@jihosoft.com.