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After dad’s passing, I wanted to export…

After dad’s passing, I wanted to export all of our iMessages into a portable format. There’s a much easier than extracting from an iPhone via paid proprietary software:

  1. brew install imessage-exporter
  2. imessage-exporter -f html

That’s it. They’ll all be in your home directory in a folder called imessage_export. github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter


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