You can back up messages on an iPhone to your iCloud account, or sync messages from your iPhone to your Mac.

iMessage: Sign in to your Mac with the same Apple Account as your iPhone. Open Messages to send a text. Google Messages: Log in to Google Messages for Web and then tap the matching emoji in the mobile ...

You can now easily highlight and copy a selection of text from your messages on iOS 26. This is super convenient for copying ...

If you want to recover a text message, tap on the thread or message so that it's selected, hit Recover on the bottom right, and then tap Recover Message in the pop-up that appears. You can also ...