I have Messages turned on in iCloud and so that is covered but what if a technical issue pops up and one of the suggestions was to clear out any old conversations to “see if that solves the problem”.
I mean; these conversations with family and groups are memories and I would like to make multiple copies of it.
Asked if anyone here felt the same and found a solution.
As I recall, if you have a MacBook, iMessage syncs your messages and stores them in a file named ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
That file or files (my notes don’t say number or the names of files) is just a SQL database which can be queried with the sqlite client, or exported into a more friendly format.
This solution worked for me about 5 years ago; I don’t know if Apple still allows this.
Do you know if this includes attachments as well? Or are they stored elsewhere.
Unfortunately I don’t remember.