Over the course of two years I have accumulated several SMS text messages that I wanted to archive. I could have used iTunes to backup the contents of my phone to my Mac, unfortunately to read the archived messages I would have to restore them to another iPhone. I discovered several paid apps in the App Store that would allow me to extract messages and read them on my Mac, however they were rather expensive. After a quick Google Search I stumbled upon Nelson Aguilar’s WonderHowTo article How to Extract & Back Up All Your Text Messages & Picture Messages from your iPhone to your Mac. Following Nelson’s instructions, I downloaded Chelsey Baker’s iOSMessageExport script on GitHub and it worked perfectly!
