How to Transfer iMessage Pictures from iPhone to Computer
pp on iPhone is an indispensable tool for communicating with your family, friends, or colleagues. As time goes on, more and more old conversations are accumulated in the iPhone Message app, and it’s time to clean them. But many users may find these text messages contain some pictures that are worthy of being preserved, so they want to save these pictures from iPhone text messages before cleaning the Message app.
For saving an iMessage picture, you can long-press that picture and then tap the Save option. But what if you need to save hundreds or thousands of pictures from the text messages on the iPhone? It can be a heavy workload. Moreover, these pictures take up a lot of storage space on your iPhone, so it will be better to transfer them to the computer. In this post, we will details how to save multiple or all photos from iMessage to the computer directly and how to transfer one or several iMessage pictures from the iPhone to the computer.
Part 1. How to Save Multiple/All Photos from iMessage to Computer Directly
For those users who want to save multiple or all photos, possibly thousands of photos received in text messages or iMessage to the computer, things will be easier if they use a third-party tool like Jihosoft iPhone Data Recovery to do this task. This tool allows you to choose pictures you need and extract as many pictures as you like from text messages on your iPhone to the computer directly. Actually, you can also use this tool to recover deleted text messages, photos, notes, etc. from the iPhone, iTunes backup, or iCloud backup.
Now let’s look at how to save multiple photos from iMessage to your computer.
- Step 1: Download and install this program to your computer, then open it.
- Step 2: Connect your iPhone to the computer via a USB cable and click the Start Scan button when it appears.
- Step 3: When the scan ends, up to 16 types of data will be sorted in the left pane. You can click the Message Attachments to preview all the photos from iMessage.
- Step 4: Check the items you want and click the Recover button to save iMessage photos to your computer.
If you have recently backed up your iPhone data to iTunes or iCloud, you may also extract iMessage photos from the backup by selecting the View iTunes backup or View iCloud backup button on the home page of this tool. The process is very similar, and you can manage it according to the prompt.
Part 2. Transfer Several Pictures from Text Messages on iPhone to Computer
As we know that nearly all of the third-party tools online charge their users. So the method in Part 1 is practical when you have loads of iMessage photos to transfer to the computer. If you just want to save one or several pictures from iPhone text messages, there is no need to use a third-party tool. We will show you how to transfer one or several pictures from iPhone text messages to your computer without a third-party tool.
First of all, you are required to save the iMessage pictures you need to the Photos app on your iPhone. The detailed steps are as below.
- Open the Message app on your iPhone and tap on the conversation that contains the pictures you need.
- Tap on the sender’s name at the top, then tap the “i” icon. In the next screen, you can see all the images you’ve received in this conversation.
- Press and hold any one of these images, and tap the More option in the pop-up menu.
- Tap to select the images you want to save and flip Save Image in the bottom-left corner to save them to the Photos app.
After you have saved the iMessage pictures you want to the Photos app, you should consider how to transfer these pictures from your iPhone to the computer.
The Apple device has a featured called iCloud Photos, which allows you to access your photos and videos from your Apple devices and PC on iCloud.com. Thus, you can turn on the iCloud Photos feature on your iPhone and then sign in to iCloud.com on your computer with your Apple ID and passcode for accessing the iMessage pictures you saved to the Photos app.
- Step 1: Tap on Settings > Photos on your iPhone and switch on the toggle of iCloud Photos.
- Step 2: Open a browser on your computer, then go to https://www.icloud.com/.
- Step 3: Sign in with your Apple ID and passcode, then click on the Photos icon.
- Step 4: Find the iMessage pictures you need and select them. You can press and hold the command key on the keyboard to select them all.
- Step 5: Click the download icon to download these iMessage pictures to any folder on your computer.
Conclusion
Above is the guide for how to transfer pictures from iPhone text messages to the computer. The two methods in this guide are suitable for different cases. If you need to transfer loads of iMessage pictures to the computer, you can choose the method in Part 1. Though the third-party tool may charge you some fees, it can save you a lot of time and energy. If you have just one or several pictures to transfer from iPhone text messages to the computer, you can use the method in Part 2. Please choose the method according to your needs. Any of your queries or suggestions are welcomed in the comment section below.