Friday, December 5, 2014

Transfer SMS messages to new iPhone

Got the new iPhone 6? It’s time to migrate some content from the old phone. This quick tutorial shows how to backup your old iPhone SMS messages including iMessages and WhatsApp and transfer them to a new iPhone.

For the purpose, you don’t need iCloud, iTunes, or any paid program.

First backup the old iPhone

iCloud backs up apps and app data, however, the iCloud back ups are encrypted. In addition, to restore the apps, you must effectuate a complete restore of the iPhone or iPad to a previous state. The steps below, on the other hand show how to back up iOS apps complete with preferences and documents without the need for iCloud. You can then restore the apps of your choice to another iPhone or iPad without having to bring the entire device to a previous state.

1. Download CopyTrans Shelbee which is a free utility dedicated to iPhone backup and restore:

2. Run CopyTrans Shelbee, plug in your old iPhone and hit the “Backup” button

iphone backup with copytrans shelbee

3. Choose “Full backup”

full backup button in main program window

4. Click “Start”

start iphone backup with copytrans shelbee

5. The backup of your iPhone begins. CopyTrans Shelbee backs up your iPhone text messages including SMS, iMessage, WhatsApp and Viber as well as iPhone settings, app, app documents and camera roll

iphone content backup elements listed

6. When the backup completes, click on “Done”

iphone content backup elements listed

Next, restore the backup to your new iPhone

1. With CopyTrans Shelbee running, connect the new iPhone and click on the “Restore” button

restore button in main window

2. Now, click “Change”

click change button to select backup

3. From the popup, select the backup you just made

select from list of backup entries in popup

4. Choose “Start” to begin the restore

start ios backup with copytrans shelbee

5. The restore is under way

iphone restore is running in background

6. Once the restore completes, you will see all your previous iPhone SMS and iMessages on your new iPhone

imessages on iphone

You now know how to transfer iPhone SMS to new iPhone.

4 comments:

  1. To Transfer SMS messages from old iPhone to new iPhone, the easiest way is using mobile phone transfer program. It allows us to get access to all SMS messages on both of iPhone, then we can choose them to transfer.

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  2. It's really a helpful post. By the way, I happened to read a post showing more methods for transferring SMS messages to new iPhone.

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