backing up iPhone to MacBook Pro

AlWeir wrote:

You could try signing out and signing back in in settings and then hitting the sync option. When moving from a M1 to a M2 last year it took two days to have all my messages sync with iCloud. I think it is be cause of all the photos that I had on Messages over the years since I save all of them since doing Messages.

Syncing to iCloud is probably not going to help the OP. You can't access messages from iCloud.com.

All I can suggest is you try Apples suggestion in iCloud since I don't know how old your Mac is. I run five different Mac devices and that are less than five years old and all of them don't have a problem with Messages other than if I delete a contact in contacts it won't show that person in Messages any more and I had to put a whole lot of old contacts back into Contacts from icloud.

Plug you iPhone into you Mac. Click on the iPhone in the left column and this should appear in a Finder window. You can back it up to you Mac and password protect the backup. Don't forget the password or you will have to redo the procedure.

rmhomes wrote:

Can anyone recommend a Mac application for backing up my iPhone to my MBP? It's mostly because it's the best way I've seen to browse iMessage history. For some reason, iMessages aren't available for viewing on iCloud, other than on my phone or Messages on my Mac, which only incrementally loads messages as I scroll up.

I've tried repeatedly with iMazing, but takes HOURS for an incremental back up, and support hasn't been much help.

Looking for a solution and hoping someone here has an answer.

Thanks!

it takes hours as it is the first time backing it up, same thing would happen if it was your first time backing up your device to icloud, the only other program beside imazing is touch copy.

rmhomes wrote:

And then, from that, how do I view my iMessages?

You can't view your message history from an iPhone backup, at least not without additional software. I've been using iMazing since PhoneView went away and don't have much trouble with it. Have you tried backing up just one conversation at a time?

rmhomes wrote:

support only points to articles, not actual "support"

If you're talking about iMazing support, unfortunately, no one here can do anything about it.

I haven't found it to be especially onerous to back up individual conversations, especially as there are lots of things in Messages I don't need to archive (e.g. notices from Fedex, appointment confirmations from the vet, etc).

It seems to me that your only option is to be patient.

You could try signing out and signing back in in settings and then hitting the sync option. When moving from a M1 to a M2 last year it took two days to have all my messages sync with iCloud. I think it is be cause of all the photos that I had on Messages over the years since I save all of them since doing Messages.