Preserving iphone text messages

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Jun 8, 2021, 5:42:34 PM6/8/21

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Dear colleagues,

I am seeking advice/guidance/contemporary resources for tackling the preservation of iphone text messages. I have been tasked with guiding a donor on extracting a message history that goes back to 2011. We will not be receiving the phone as part of the acquisition. It seems that commercial text extraction software might be the only solution so I would welcome any recommendations for trustworthy companies that you have used or know about. I have already consulted the following:

files.archivists.org/pubs/CampusCaseStudies/...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/technology/personaltech/copying-iphone-messages-to-the-computer.html
https://www.wired.com/2013/11/backup-sms-iphone/
toffer/iphone-sms-backup

THANK YOU

Laura Schroffel (she/her/hers)
Digital Archivist, Collections Management

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Laura Schroffel
Digital Archivist
Getty Research Institute
Los Angeles CA
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