Connect your iPhone or iPad to your Mac using a USB cable, like you would normally do when connecting to iTunes.

Open iTunes on your Mac.

Click the little iPhone icon at the top left, iTunes will then show information about your device.

You now need to backup your iPhone to your Mac.

To do this:

• Under Backups, select This Computer
• Make sure Encrypt iPhone Backup is not selected.
• Then click Back Up Now (on the right of the screen).

iTunes will then backup your iPhone to your Mac, this may take a minute or two to complete.

Now you can close down iTunes and open the Print Text Messages app. The app will find all the iTunes backups you currently have. If you can't see the backup you just made, click the Find Backups button and it will update.

Select the backup you want to read from the backups list, all message conversations within this backup will then be loaded into the Conversations list.

MacOS Mojave Users

If you use the Mojave update for MacOS you will have to allow Print Text Messages permission to read your backup files. To do this:

1. Go to System Preferences on the Mac.
2. Open Security & Privacy.
3. Select the Privacy tab at the top.
4. Click the little lock (bottom left) and enter your master password.
5. Select Full Disk Access on the list on the left and then add Print Text Messages to the list on right.

Select the conversation you want to print from the list, all text messages from the selected conversation will be shown in the Conversation box.

Congratulations, you are now finished. Simply click the Save to Clipboard, Print or Save as PDF buttons to choose how you want to print your text messages.

• Save to Clipboard - saves the message thread to your clipboard so you can paste them into a document.
• Print - connects to your printer so you can print out your message conversation.
• Save as PDF - saves your message conversation to a PDF so you can email it to someone.

All your messages are printed with the senders number and the date and time they were sent. The PDF option is especially useful for court or legal matters as they cannot be edited.