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Transferring SMS from iPhone to iPhone

Transferring SMS from iPhone to iPhone
when having more than one iPhone, you may need move text messages from one iPhone to another one when you don't want to delete the important messages from the iPhone. Or because the iPhone starts refusing new SMS messages once the iPhone SMS box become full. Do you ever wonder how you can prevent this? Want to save the iPhone SMS to computer or copy the SMS to new iPhone inbox?

This tutorial will help you save all those important and juicy text messages on your iPhone to your computer or another iPhone for later reading.

    Things you need
  • downloaded and installed the free trial applications called Cucusoft iPhone SMS + Contacts or Tansee iPhone transfer SMS.
  • iTunes installed
  • 2 iPhones

Why Cucusoft iPhone SMS + Contacts Backup


Cucusoft iPhone Contacts + SMS Backup
iPhone Contacts + SMS Backup

Part one: Transfer SMS from iPhone to computer

If you don't want to lose your iPhone SMS, or you just want have a plain-text copy to computer, you can use the Cucusoft iPhone SMS + Contacts Backup. It's particularly useful for iPhone owners who use Windows to backup common text message on iPhone SIM card. This method is not as complicated as jailbreaking your iPhone. You just connect your iPhone to Windows based computer and start to move iPhone SMS.

Step1: Download, install it

You download the trial version of the Cucusoft iPhone contacts + SMS backup to transfer iPhone SMS to comptuer.

Step2: Launch it

Make sure that you can run your iPhone on computer without problem. Then connect your iPhone to computer with the USB cable. Run our iPhone text message backup program. It will auto-scan the iPhone on your PC. If the iPhone is enabled, the iPhone messages will be shown in the list.

Transfer iPhone SMS to computer

Step3: Transfer iPhone SMS

Check the "Messages" icon on the left. All of your iPhone SMS which in the inbox will be displayed on the right screen. From this list, you can now select and checkmark the files you want to back up. Click the "Export" button.

save iPhone text message to computer

That's it! You can save the iPhone SMS to computer as a txt file or a mht file. both fo them are readable on computer. At the same time, you can selet the backup path.





Part two: Transfer backup SMS to another iPhone (jailbroken iPhone)

If you have transferred the SMS to comptuer successfully, now, you can connect another iPhone to computer and disconnect the original one. Cucusoft iPhone contacts + SMS can help you restore the backuped SMS to another iPhone easily. (only Jailbroken iPhone supported)


When having some very important messages from business partners or friends, If you don't want to delete them. you can simply backup them to computer and then restore to iPhone! When coming across dilemma that iPhone rejects receiving new SMS but all the SMS are so important that we don't want to delete them, can it be solved? Yes, of course, there is a program that can help you, now, you can enjoy the Cucusoft iPhone contacts + SMS backup to finish it.