How To Save and Print Text Messages for Court

How Do I Save and Print Text Messages for Court?

Follow these specific steps to save and print text messages for court:
Step 1. Backup your iPhone via iTunes.
Step 2. Run Decipher TextMessage.
Step 3. Select a device and chose a contact whose text message you want to save for court.
Step 4. Select "Export PDF.”
Step 5. Choose "desktop" to save the text messages to computer.
Step 6. Open the PDF containing your court-related text messages.
Step 7. Select “Print” to print out the text messages for court.

Video Overview:
Welcome to our Decipher Tools tutorial about how to save and print iPhone text messages for court, trial, or any legal related matter. Keep in mind while we're running today's video tutorial on a Mac, this also works on any Windows computer.

To complete the tutorial you'll need three things:
1. iPhone or an iPad.
2. Windows or Mac computer with a copy of iTunes installed.
3. Decipher TextMessage. deciphertools.com/download-decipher-textmessage…

Detailed Video Instructions to Save and Print Text Messages for Court.
The first thing you want to do is backup your iPhone via iTunes. We have helpful instruction on how to do that here if you’ve never made an iTunes backup before. deciphertools.com/support/knowledge-base/how-do…

Next, run Decipher TextMessage on your computer. Decipher TextMessage is the desktop program that lets you export your iPhone text messages to your computer in a PDF document so you can save them for court.

Navigate to your web browser and go to deciphertools.com/decipher-textmessage.html to install Decipher TextMessage.

When the program first open the software will automatically read in any existing iTunes backups on your computer. If you don’t see any backups in the program and the left-hand column in the program is blank that simply means that you've never used iTunes to backup a device and you need to backup your phone via iTunes on your computer.

After doing so when you launch the program, you'll see your device here in the left-hand column. If we click on a phone, you'll immediately see all your iPhone contacts in the middle column of the program. If we select one, you'll then see in the far right hand column all the text messages with that contact.

One of the special features of Decipher text message that is useful for court is that the program has a unique preference that will display the contact name and phone number on every single text message both sent and received. Even messages on the iPhone itself and in the messages app are not displayed this way.

This feature of the program is something that many lawyers and courts appreciate since it helps with documentation and clarification of exactly who sent and received every single text message. Now this feature is on by default, however you can always double check by simply clicking the preferences and making sure there's a check mark next to the show contact on every message option. You can also email them to your lawyer or anyone related to your court or legal case. It's that easy!

A few quick additional features to keep in mind if you don't want to export all your text messages and you only have a few messages that you want to export, you can simply use the export date range option.

Navigate again to the export menu choose "export current conversation" and pick the "PDF date range" option. A little calendar will pop up and you can choose the exact dates for which messages you want to save.

We'll select that specific day and then we'll choose export. We now pick a place on our computer where we want to save the exported PDF with the text messages.

Privacy
When you use Decipher TextMessage to export or print your text messages for court, all of your text message data is private and local to your computer. Nothing is stored on servers or in the cloud! The user is in complete control.

We hope today's quick overview about how to save text messages for court has been helpful! If you have any questions simply contact us via our support page deciphertools.com/support.html or leave a comment here and we'll reply.

Additional instructions for saving and printing text messages for court for both iPhone and Android devices is available at deciphertools.com/blog/documenting-text-message…

You can also navigate to deciphertools.com/testimonial.html. Here you'll find Facebook testimonials from Decipher Tools customers, many of whom have successfully used Decipher TextMessage to save and print their important text messages for court or legal matters!

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