Transfer Text Messages from old iPhone to New iPhone 7

With the coming of iPhone 7, change your phone with a new one is becoming so common. The problem is how to transfer your text messages from old iPhone to new iPhone 7, especially important ones, when you have changed your iPhone. The point of this article will tell you how to transfer text messages from old iPhone to new iPhone 7.

From Apple community, we know that we can do backup in iTunes and iCloud, then transfer text messages from iTunes or iCloud to your new iPhone. May you have already tried those ways, and you’ll find out that you couldn’t preview and transfer the the files selectively to your new iPhone 7.

Now iRefone can help you with this issue easily, as iRefone is a professional iOS data recovery software, it allows us to extract and recover your iOS data from old iPhone, iTunes backup or iCloud backup to our PC or new iPhone in a few seconds. Also you can transfer the text message selectively to our new iPhone.

Now download and install the free trail vertsion to have a try.



Part 1. Transfer Texts to New iPhone Directly from Old iPhone

Step 1. Run iRefone, connect your old iPhone with PC, choose “Recover from iOS Device”, then click “Start”.



Step 2. Choose “message” icon from the new interface, which is among many text data icon and media data icon.



Step 3. After scanning, you can preview and choose the texts you need, then there will be two options, like “Recover to PC” or “Recover to Device”. Now connect your new iPhone with computer when you do “Recover to Device”



Remark: “Recover to Device” is only works for contacts, notes and messages right now.

Part 2. Transfer Text to New iPhone from iTunes Backup

Transfer text messages from iTunes to your new iPhone will be much easier, if you have done backup on your iTunes.

Step 1. Run iRefone, choose “Recover from iTunes Backup”, then the backup files in your iTunes backup will all show up.



Step 2. Click “Select” at the end of the files you need, then we’ll come to the new interface with many text data and media data, choose “Message” icon.



Step 3. When finish scanning, connect your new iPhone 7 with PC, choose the text messages you need to transfer, tap on “Recover to Device”. then those text messages will be saved on our iPhone 7.




Part 3. Transfer Texts to New iPhone 7 from iCloud Backup

iRefone can also help us transfer text messages from iCloud to iPhone 7 selectively, see below steps.

Step 1. Run iRefone, choose “Recover from iCloud Backup”, and log in iCloud with your Apple ID and password.



Step 2. Then all files in your iCloud backup will show up, tap on “Download” at the end of the files you need.



Step 3. When finish download, new interface with text data and media data icon will show up. Choose “Message” icon, and it’ll be scanned by iRefone.




Step 4. when finish scanning, you can preview and choose text messages you need. And connect your iPhone 7 with PC, choose “Recover to Device”, then those text messages will be saved to your new iPhone 7.




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