How to Access Text Messages on iCloud from PC/Mac

With iCloud syncing feature, your iOS contacts and notes will be automatically uploaded to iCloud.com and you can view them on iCloud webpage. However, unlike contacts and notes, your text messages on your iPhone iPad won’t be synced to iCloud.com, instead, these messages are backed up to iCloud and you can’t get them directly. Therefore, in this article, we provide you one handy iOS data recovery program to let you access text messages on iCloud. And there are some functions of it that you may care about.

• Download backup from iCloud and allow you to see text message details including pictures in message attachment.
• Support saving messages to computer as some readable formats of HTML and TEXT for a convenient editing and printing.
• Let you access different message types like iMessages and WhatsApp messages.

Before starting, you need to install this program on Windows/Mac and follow the below 4 steps to get your iCloud text messages.

How to get text messages from iCloud with this software

Step 1. Launch this software and choose “Recover from iCloud”.

How to access text messages on iCloud

Step 2. Click the right arrow, enter your Apple ID and password to log into iCloud account to scan your backups.

Enter Apple ID and password to log into iCloud account

Step 3. After scan, choose your wanted backup based on the info of backup size and date, and click “Download” button. After the downloading done, click the forward icon to the next step.

Pick up one iCloud backup you need

Step 4. On the left side, choose “Messages” or “Message Attachments” to look at your conversations or attached images, with the info of date and specific chat history, pick up your desired items and export them to computer by clicking the bottom right corner.

How to access text messages on iCloud from computer

Besides text messages, this tool also enables you to access other data and files like photos, videos and so on from iCloud backup. In addition, it lets you look at and get back messages in iTunes on computer. We do hope this tool is helpful for you. Please feel free to download the trail version and have a nice try.