How to Backup iPhone Messages to iCloud?

Messages are one of the precious data on iPhone. This guide will show you how to backup iPhone messages to iCloud in 2 ways. You can sync messages to iCloud to make them available on all devices or you can create an iCloud backup containing messages.

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How to Only Backup iPhone Messages to iCloud?

Messages in iCloud comes with iOS 11.4. It’s a great feature to help users backup iPhone messages. When you turn it on, all iPhone messages will be uploaded to iCloud server. Besides, the messages can be viewed on your other devices as long as they are using the same Apple ID. When you receive messages on one device, they will also appear on other devices. In other words, it will keep your messages updated and available on all your iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Steps to Sync iPhone Messages to iCloud

Make sure that your iPhone is running on iOS 11.4 or later. You also need to use two-factor authentication and turn on iCloud Keychain.

Go to Settings app > Tap your account > Tap iCloud > Turn on Messages option.

After you have turned on Messages in iCloud, it will update all your text messages and iMessages to iCloud. Please note that your messages will not be included in iCloud backup.

It will help save iPhone storage because all of your attachments will be stored in iCloud. However, if you delete a message, attachment or conversation on one of your devices, it will be deleted from all of your devices. When you turn off Messages in iCloud on one device, other devices with this option enabled will continue to store the messages you send and receive.

How to Backup iPhone Including Messages?

If your iPhone is an older model and does not support iOS 11.4, you may choose to create an iCloud backup. It will backup all iPhone content including your messages. However, this method has two disadvantages that cannot be ignored.

iCloud only provides 5 GB of free storage space. This may not be enough to store all the iPhone data.
When you accidentally lose a message and want to recover it, you can only restore all the backups but not the ones you want to recover individually. What’s worse, it will erase all existing data on iPhone.

But in any case, it’s a workable method to backup iPhone messages to iCloud. You can protect your messages as well as other content. If you just want to backup messages, you may move to the next part to learn an easy way.

Steps to Make a Whole Backup Including Messages

Connect your iPhone to a stable Wi-Fi network.
Go to Settings > Tap your iCloud account > Choose iCloud Backup > Turn on iCloud Backup > Tap Back Up Now to create a backup at once.

How to restore iCloud backup:

First go to Settings > General > Reset and choose Erase All Content and Settings to reset iPhone.
Then set up your iPhone until you access the App & Data screen.
Choose Restore from iCloud Backup.

How to Backup iPhone Messages to Computer?

From above, you know how to backup iPhone messages to iCloud. If your iPhone supports Messages in iCloud, you can turn on the button to save all messages to iCloud server. If not, you can create a complete iCloud backup that contains your messages.

However, neither method allows you to select the messages you want to back up. Want to backup important messages instead of all of it to save time and space? One professional iPhone backup software named AOMEI MBackupper is the way to go.

The tool lets you preview and select the messages you really want to backup. You can save messages to computer, flash drive or external hard drive as per your needs. What’s more, you can restore messages selectively and it will not erase any existing messages or any other data on iPhone.

Steps to Backup iPhone Messages to Computer

Run AOMEI MBackupper > Connect iPhone to computer via USB cable > Enter passcode on iPhone.
On the Home, choose Custom Backup > Choose Messages option.