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My wife is preparing to switch from an older Samsung Android based phone to an iPhone 4S.

She's been able to transfer her contacts - now looking for a way to transfer her texts (she uses the phone for her home-based business).

 

Can anyone suggest the best way to go about this?

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Guest LilBambi

Might look into the following articles on some of this:

 

Digital Trends article on switching from Android to iOS:

 

Moving your text messages

 

It’s often a wrench to leave behind your old text messages when you switch to a new phone. Most of them won’t be missed, but sometimes you’ll have a special goodbye or a romantic message that you want to keep. Unfortunately there’s no easy way to transfer SMS to your new iPhone. You might consider using a free app like Super Backup : SMS & Contacts to create XML file backups of your old texts, just make sure you copy them onto your computer.

There are a few premium software options out there which claim to allow you to transfer SMS from Android to iPhone, but they tend to be expensive. We would advise caution and proper research before you splash out on one of them.

 

Super Backup : SMS & Contacts - Google Play Store

 

And this one from iGB on how to transfer SMS from Android to iOS:

 

Backuptrans (Requires Windows) and here's a tutorial from the Spiceworks Community.

 

Or this one that can be done from Windows or Mac:

 

How to Transfer Text Messages from Android to iPhone

 

This one is my personal preference. But whatever works for you!

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Thanks for responding.

What she ended up doing was to use the SMS Backup + app to export her texts to her gmail account.

 

Pretty slick - sets up a folder in gmail and transfers the texts. Can't reply to them and no capability to transfer them to the iPhone but she really only needed them as a record of past conversations.

 

Bonus - they are now searchable so she can find specific messages more readily, and she can easily delete the non-relevant threads.

 

I gather that the app can be used to automatically perform scheduled backups of new messages, and to restore backups back to an Android phone, but we did not test either of those functions.

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Excellent! Great job! With the searchable bonus makes it a perfect historical record.

 

And she can get to the created folder easily via the GMail specific folders in Mail if she needs to and is not at a computer or logging in via browser is not viable.

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