So why isn't there an easy way to print text messages?

[grasswire]

There are so many reasons why someone would want to save texts to print!

[A HERETIC I AM]

1. Copy, paste to notepad....

email to self, open on the PC and print.

Seems pretty easy.

I'm sure that method is rudimentary.

[Kalidurga]

3. That's what I was thinking

[JimDandy]

4. I define easy as plugging my phone into my printer and hitting print

or printing the texts from my printer via wifi.

The copy, paste email is cumbersome. Me? I just take a screen snapshot of the texts I want, download them to my computer and hit print.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. boy, copying and pasting is a giant pain on ios9, innit?

I think they made it even worse than it was before.

[REP]

22. Screenshot, send to printer

If you're running iOS 9.x on a 6 or below or I can't remember what generation this year's iPad is, it may be. Doing anything on my 6 is a pain because I finally shattered the screen; my 6s is amazing. C&P on my not the latest but the one before iPad running the latest iOS 9 update is very easy but I use a stylus bc my hands are fubar.

[grasswire]

27. no "i" here, but thanks. nt

[REP]

30. I believe any OS allows screenshots and access to wireless printers

[JimDandy]

2. Asked that too, and my phone company service reps

don't know why there isn't. Should have been included as a basic function of all mobile phones.

[herding cats]

5. In this day and age it should be a basic service, like saving a pic or printing an email.

That it's not and you have to jump through hoops to get it done is a total fail.

I've mentioned this to my carrier and the maker of my phone before. It's nice to know others find it archaic as well.

[onehandle]

6. On Macs texts are backed up from your iPhone in the Messages app to iCloud.

Automatically archives forever. Copy, print, re-text, whatever. Including attachments, photos, videos, etc.

[Control-Z]

7. I use a printer app that I downloaded to my phone.

Found the brand of my 4 in one at Google play store.

There is a slight delay sending info to wireless printer but perfect printing once received.

[cherokeeprogressive]

8. My printer is on the wireless network in my house. I can send print jobs there from my S5.

[grasswire]

12. so when I upgrade to my S5.......

I will be able to do it. The problem right now is that I have texts on my old phone that I don't want to lose and haven't been able to figure out how to retain them.

[cherokeeprogressive]

14. does your phone have a USB cable?

If you can connect it to a computer you should be able to print them I believe.

[grasswire]

15. nope, no usb port nt

[Snobblevitch]

25. You can use the port that you use to charge the phone,

unless it's really old.

If you're really desperate, you can always transcribe the texts you wish to save. That would certainly shorten the list.

My father has a PC from 1985 that has a list of family members, actually a familly tree. The only aolution I have is to transcribe the list. I don't think there are cables or even floppy disks that can help.

[grasswire]

26. The port that I use to charge the phone isn't big enough...

....for a USB cable, I don't think.

I started transcribing some. That's a real pain. LOL.

[Snobblevitch]

29. There are some e-mails I would like to save I have on a laptop

that I last used in 1999. I still have an old working desktop with a floppy disk. If I cared enough I could sabe the e-mails to a disk, copy to the desktop and then use a jump drive to get them off my desktop.

(Now, how do I save my college term papers that are on a 5-1/2 inch floppy from an Apple IIe?)

[REP]

31. There are "your phone end" cables with USB on the other end

For example, my phone is Lightning. Here's a cable that's Lightning on one end and UBB on the other:

[ecstatic]

9. Chomp sms makes it easy to email your text messages

For example, long press a contact's conversation and select email conversation. Then you can print it off from your email. Chomp sms is on android I don't know if it's on Apple's app store as well. Also, there are various text backup apps you can use to keep your text messages archived.

[grasswire]

13. when I tried to download one of those SMS apps...

.....from google play, I was informed that my device is not identified with google. My phone store could not tell me how to make that happen. If I could download the right google app, I could offload the texts to gmail.

[ecstatic]

36. In settings - accounts - do you have at least one Google

Account set up on your phone? If so, make sure it's the same one you use on your computer in order to sync info!

[Warren DeMontague]

10. I like to type out my text messages, print them, put them in an envelope, mail them to a

telegraph office, and have them sent to the person that way.

[Lizzie Poppet]

16. Print? Oh, you mean like on tree slices?

How retro!

Just messin' with ya!

[whatthehey]

17. Because it's the 21st Century?

[Deadshot]

18. Note5--scrolling screen capture.

[grasswire]

19. can you explain what that means? nt

[Deadshot]

20. On my Note 5, there's a feature called rolling screen capture.

Instead of capturing what's on the screen within the screen boundaries, I can keep scrolling and capture as much of the image I want.

[grasswire]

23. what's the diff between the S5 and the note 5?

I've been planning to upgrade to the S5.

That doesn't solve my current problem of how to save the texts on my current old phone, though.

[Deadshot]

33. The S5 is an older model.

It came out in 2014, which is old in the cell phone world.

The Note 5 came out two months ago and a big phone. It has a 5.7 inch screen. There are features of the Note 5 that are drastically different from the S5. The Note 5 comes with a stylus that will allow you to write on the screen and take notes.

[Snobblevitch]

21. Text mesage?

What's a text message. I have a five year old flip phone. However, it does have an 8gig SD card with a built in mp3 player.

[grasswire]

24. texts are really important in my life

Keep in touch with family members and friends dozens of times a day.

[Snobblevitch]

28. You can probably guess that I resisted

getting a cell phone for many years. I just did not feel a need to be that accessible. My family and friends have learned that I prefer an actual phone call or an e-mail. (Just don't leave me a voicemail.)

[U4ikLefty]

32. Ask the NSA to print you a copy.

[randome]

34. You can transfer data using Bluetooth, too.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

[boston bean]

35. On the Iphone you can copy text messages as text

you can also screenshot them.