Is there actually nonetheless no good strategy to comprehensively export an iMessage dialog with out using third occasion purposes?
If that’s the case, then why?
It’s no secret that this has been an especially lengthy gripe held by an enormous variety of folks. Moreover, it’s successfully a vital characteristic. I’m not one for conspiracy theories, however I can not think about why this matter has clearly been consciously ignored by Apple. Perhaps there’s something I’m lacking right here?
Both method:
If undertaking that is absurdly unattainable with Apple’s supplied instruments, then how else can I accomplish exporting my iMessage conversations?
I simply must get lots of them out of my iMessage utility as a result of it merely cannot deal with the information anymore. I need to protect the exports as backups on my exterior drive. Then I can take away the conversations from iMessage. For the reason that objective is to lighten the burden on iMessage, I’m not simply trying to export easy textual content, or export screenshots. I want a extra organized and complete export that will even embrace the actual information consuming components: photographs, movies, hyperlinks, animations, attachments…
I additionally want the export to be searchable, due to course. I do not want it to look precisely prefer it did within the utility, however the nearer the higher. It might be a pleasant perk if it preserved some related look components like emojis and inside message line breaks.
A transparent dealbreaker can be if the export can solely be seen and interacted with by way of a particular third occasion program as soon as it’s generated. Particularly if that program can be a subscription, UGH. This export will stay on my exterior drive and bounce between units, I can not be counting on a third occasion app that gate retains my entry to all this exported information. Perhaps the app makes it simpler or prettier to work together with the information, however I nonetheless want practical entry to it even with out the app.
It might actually be good if there was a method that the export may ever be imported again into iMessage. Nonetheless, I doubt it, and even when it was attainable at this second, there isn’t a dependable strategy to belief that this is able to final a number of OS variations later, not to mention indefinitely. I do not should be dropping entry to my exported recordsdata simply because a third occasion app stopped updating itself and is now incompatible with the latest OS.