IPhone – How to export text messages from android into iphone

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When moving back from Android to iPhone, I'm unable to transfer my text messages with the "move to iOS" app.

About half my text messages are missing for some reason.

I'm looking for an alternative method (either an application, or steps to do by hand). In regards to application, I am specifically looking for something that not sketchy (eg. dr. fone, or the rebrands of such app).

Ideally something open source or provided by a reputable company.

I've attempted to move messages over by editing the backups sqlite database file, however upon restoration, itunes thinks the backup is corrupted and refuses to restore it.

What are my options?

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Method for saving text only: similar to the "move to iOS" app, but still requires a complete application-SMS Backup +. It also transfers text messages, but it cannot be added to iPhone Messager or iMessages. Here are the steps: Log in to Gmail on Android> Settings> Forwarding and POP / IMAP> Enable IMAP> Enable IMAP> Download SMS Backup from the Google Play Store +> Launch the application> Connect to Gmail> Backup SMS to your Google> On iPhone login Gmail> Done.
Method for saving text and merging with iPhone Messager: It is recommended to use transfer tool to convert the file to a format supported by iOS.

The above information is from this article, it also mentions the comparison of several methods.

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iPhone – How to Export SMS Text Messages

Get /var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db
It is now exported.

What format do you want the export to be? The existing format is sqlite, so you can convert it to ASCII like so: sqlite3 sms.db .dump > sms.db.txt

For step one, you can jailbreak and then scp, or you can just search your backup folder for the file, no jailbreak required.

If your phone is not jailbroken, look on OS X in:

~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/<long_hex_string>/

And, in my case, and according to various web sources, although not in all cases, is named:

3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28

To answer your other questions: Any OS, Free, Successful.

iOS Messages to iMessage on Mac – How to Sync

This is possible.

Move the sms.db and Attachments from your phone. They are located at /var/mobile/Library/SMS/ or you can extract them from a backup made by iTunes.

On your Mac, move the contents of ~/Library/Messages to a backup location.

Copy the sms.db and Attachments folder to ~/Library/Messages

Using an SQLite browser such as DB Browser open the sms.db file and execute the following to change location of attachments:

UPDATE attachment SET filename = replace(filename, '/Library/SMS/Attachments/', '/Library/Messages/Attachments/') WHERE filename LIKE '%/Library/SMS/Attachments/%';

Rename sms.db to chat.db

Then you should delete the folder ~/Library/containers/com.apple.iChat and restart. You are now done.

Source: https://denbeke.be/blog/mac/exporting-messages-and-attachments-from-iphone-to-mac/

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