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iPhone text messages can contain important information or media that you may need to save to your Mac or restore if your mobile device is lost or unusable. iPhone backups are great for this, but you’ll need a third-party utility to access and extract the data.

Decrypt SMS Designed to help you get what you need from your iPhone backups saved on your Mac. As the name suggests, it is designed for text messages, and it can recover text and various types of media contained in those messages.

iPhone backups used to be made with iTunes, but starting with macOS Catalina, they can be created directly from the Finder. If you have a backup on your Mac, the app should automatically detect it, provided you’ve followed the installation instructions and granted it the necessary permissions.

Once you’ve accessed the backup, you’ll be able to browse through your text messages with each contact, read their preview media, and then extract what you need. Messages can be exported to PDF, preserving iPhone formatting, and they can include all attached media. Alternatively, you can save them as plain text or CSV files.