You’ll lose styling (bold, italics, etc.) by exporting in plain text format, but metadata like date stamps and reactions will be retained.Įxporting as TXT instead of HTML is much faster, but keep in mind that no attachments will be saved in this format and chats won’t retain styling.įor further information, read the GitHub documentation. To export the Messages database as a TXT file instead: imessage-exporter -f txtĭepending on the size of your Messages database, exporting all your conversations and attachments may take a while. Running this command will save your Messages conversations and attachments as separate HTML files within the ~/imessage_export/ folder on your Mac. Once you have the correct version installed, run the following Terminal command to export your iMessage database as a text file: imessage-exporter -f html It’s available to download from GitHub in two versions-one is for Apple silicon Macs (“aarch64”) and the other is for Intel-based Macs (“x86_64”). How to save your iMessage data with imessage-exporter imessage-exporter is a command-line utility | Image: Christian Zibreg/iDBĪs a command-line tool, imessage-exporter is executed through the Terminal app on your Mac. Exporting the Messages app database in HTML allows you to browse your exported conversations and attachments in a web browser like Safari.Īs noted by, once you have your iMessage data exported in either TXT or HTML format, it’s super easy to browse your chats in Safari.Īs Apple’s Spotlight search feature indexes both text files and webpages saved locally on the disk, you can quickly find any iMessage chat by keyword.The entire Messages app database can be exported in plain text format (TXT) or as a webpage (HTML) for easy reference, searching and backup.A free new open-source utility, dubbed imessage-exporter, can conveniently export all your iMessage and SMS conversations and attachments.Browsing exported iMessages as a webpage | Image: Christopher Sardegna/ GitHub A new free command-line tool exports your iMessage chats, SMS texts and attachments in plain text or HTML format for easy searching and backup.
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