[ I will check out iExplorer this isn't a critical issue, but it would be nice if the single app that I bought to backup everything on the iPhone actually worked. I wonder if it is dependent on a particular version of iTunes. I connected the phone directly to the computer as well as through a hub, with two different cables, and had no luck, although Photo Transfer App sees it in either scenario and works perfectly. I can't find any info on the site that is pertinent. I have iMazing on drives running later OSes, and also sync the phone via iToons on a Mavs drive. I did get it going in Mavericks, but I don't need it for that. Unfortunately, it could not find the phone when I was in Snow Leopard. I should have tried it before buying it, I but shelled out on the basis of a decent review because it IS supposed to work with Snow Leopard. The only app I've come across that claims Snow Leopard support is PhoneView. DiskAid, which became iMazing (and does not work in SL), can't do it.
I mean, you’d kinda think this functionality would be something Apple would provide, wouldn’t you? But I’m happy Ecamm is there to fill in the gaps.While it isn't critically important, I would like to be able to back up my iPhone 6 in Snow Leopard, without having to upgrade iTunes to 11.4.
Ecamm offers a limited trial (with which you can export a few items to try out the program), and when you’re ready to purchase it, PhoneView is $29.95 and includes free lifetime updates. I find this to be very useful software, especially if you need to interact with the data on your device in a way that iTunes just won’t let you. When you’re satisfied that all of the messages you need are safely tucked away as PDFs, you can feel free to either delete them from your phone or set them to start expiring after an appropriate amount of time ( Settings > Messages > Message History > Keep Messages). Within the document that’ll be created, you’ll have all sorts of useful info, such as the date and time texts were sent. In the case of messages, you can click on a conversation (or multiple conversations) from within PhoneView and choose File > Save as PDF. Once you do, PhoneView will start analyzing your device, and when it’s done, you’ll be able to click on all of the data types you can interact with. To get started, just download the app from the website I linked above and plug your phone into your Mac using your USB-to-Lightning cable.
Not only can you export messages to PDF (as I’ll be demonstrating), but you can save out voicemails as audio files, for example, or export certain app data, your call logs, or your notes. If you’ve got the same problem, then there’s a third-party app that you should keep in mind- Ecamm’s PhoneView.īehind this funny little icon is a whole lot of power. Go me! But at the time, I had tons of old conversations that I really wanted to keep for sentimental reasons. Huge surprise, right? Upon perusing Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage, I found that my old messages were taking up almost 1.5GB.Īs you can see, that situation’s been rectified now, both because I don’t save messages as much anymore and because I finally broke down and bought a larger iPhone.
Back when I still had a 16GB iPhone, I kept running out of space.