How to forward text messages to your email account in iPhone

If You want to email my text messages (that you need to keep permanently) to yourself, so that you can print them, you can actually forward texts to an e-mail address from the iPhone’s Messages app right now, for free—or at least, not counting any text-messaging fees charged by your wireless carrier.

You can forward a single text message or an entire conversation, and the messages will appear in your inbox, most likely as a plain-text (TXT) attachment.

Any text messages you forward via email will usually arrive as a plain-text attachment.

Here’s how…

• Launch the Messages app, then tap the conversation with the text messages you want to forward.
• Next, tap the “Edit” button in the top-right corner of the screen. When you do, all the messages in the conversation thread will scoot to the right, making room for a new column of circles on the left.
• Tap the circle next to the message you want to forward to yourself—and yes, you can select a bunch of messages at once, or even all of them.
• Done selecting messages? Tap the blue Forward button in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
• Now, type an email address—your own, in this case. If you have your email addresses saved in your iPhone’s address book, you can also just tap in your name and select your email address from the list that appears.
• All set? Tap the “Send” button. Within a minute or so, the text message(s) should arrive in your inbox, with a “From” address that (most likely) includes your mobile phone number. If the text messages arrived as a text file, just double-click the TXT attachment to look inside and/or print the contents.

Hope that helps, Jayne. Have more questions? Let me know.

Tip

Are the text messages you’re trying to forward to yourself merely reappearing on your iPhone?
Maybe it’s because the email address you selected is associated with Apple’s iMessage service. (Hint: Look for a telltale blue dialog bubble next to the email address.)
The solution: Pick another email address that isn’t tied to iMessage.

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Free text editor for Web and Chrome Writebox

Writebox has a minimalist interface and very little else, but thats all by design. Distraction-free writing apps by necessity strip away all manner of excess features to keep you focused on your words rather than how they look on the page, and Writebox delivers on that promise but does add a few essential customizations. 

When you first visit the Writebox site or launch the Chrome app, theres a button at the top to sign in. I thought it would have me create a Writebox account, but, instead, its a Dropbox sign-in that authorizes the two services to connect. Any time you use Writebox, you can just sign in with your Dropbox credentials and not worry about creating another login. Thats simplicity and minimalism at their finest.

In the window is a small top-line menu bar with three buttons on the left—New, Open, and a clock-face icon for "recently opened" items—and three on the right—a trash bin, Account, and Options. Youll also find a Sync button to force your document changes to Dropbox, and an info button with some details about the app.

Other than that, youll see a big, blank screen, where you can type. At the very bottom of the screen are real-time counts for lines, words, and characters, which you can turn off if you like. The customization options are minimal, but some quite necessary, like being able to change the colors of the text and background, increase or decrease the point size and line spacing, and adjust the typeface.

From the Open button in Writebox, you can navigate your entire Dropbox folder structure, but only .txt files will appear, as its the only file type supported by the simple app. My data primarily include Word docs, images (JPGs, mostly), PDFs, and Excel files, and I could see none of them.

While typing in the text editor within the Chrome browser, the menu bar at the top disappeared, creating a wholly distraction-free environment. You can boost the view even more hiding your browsers address bar or otherwise maximizing the window. Mousing back to the top of the page causes the Writebox menu to come back into view.

The app claims that it automatically saves every keystroke as you, but you do have to hit "sync" or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+s to push changes to Dropbox.

Although the Web and Chrome app are free, iOS users have to pay $1.99 for an installed app on their devices, and an Android app isnt on the menu at all. While some might be peeved to pay for an app thats otherwise free, at least the price is reasonable and in line with other apps of its ilk, such as PlainText iPad app ($1.99 for the ad-free version, 2.5 stars).

As far as distraction-free text editors go, Writebox certainly holds its own, although it would be a much more useful app if it supported the .doc format, as well as more syncing and storage solutions, in addition to Dropbox.

Reviewed by Jill Duffy 

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