Comment on Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost foreverparentComments−robrain8moMessages, select user, click the user icon to get to the info page, click Photos, Edit, Select, Download -> photos are in the Photos app and you can do what you want with them.Not the easiest operation, but hardly jealously prevented.−robrain8moSelf-reply addendum - individual photos can be dealt with with a simple long-press, no need for delving into the info page for the user.−rhyperior8moAnd do that individually for each of the thousands of photos? There’s no select All. Yikes.−m4638moyes, photos/camera roll is ok... if you mount an iphone as a usb device you get the DCIM/IMG_0000.jpg kind of thing.But text messages are jealously guarded and not exportable. Apple does this for itself, not its users.
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Messages, select user, click the user icon to get to the info page, click Photos, Edit, Select, Download -> photos are in the Photos app and you can do what you want with them.
Not the easiest operation, but hardly jealously prevented.
Self-reply addendum - individual photos can be dealt with with a simple long-press, no need for delving into the info page for the user.
And do that individually for each of the thousands of photos? There’s no select All. Yikes.
yes, photos/camera roll is ok... if you mount an iphone as a usb device you get the DCIM/IMG_0000.jpg kind of thing.
But text messages are jealously guarded and not exportable. Apple does this for itself, not its users.