How To Print Text Messages From Your Android Phone

Each time you’ll want to discuss to somebody today, you both use an instantaneous messaging app or hop in your favourite social media platform. And why not? Not solely are they handy, however additionally they join you nearly instantly to the opposite particular person (or on the very least, let whether or not they’ve learn your message).

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Nonetheless, regardless of this accessibility, there’s nonetheless a time and place for SMS. Some folks nonetheless decide to textual content as an alternative of chat, primarily as a result of it requires no web connection, everybody has a textual content app constructed into their units, and cell plans usually have limitless SMS use. Default textual content apps on Android (like Google Messages) even include options just like standard internet-based messaging apps — suppose voice messages, media help, and GIFs. This implies you will not be lacking out on a lot through the use of conventional texting. One performance you will not see in Android textual content apps, although, is the print function — you possibly can’t merely open a dialog and print it proper from the textual content app. So then, what do you do in the event you want a bodily copy of your textual content thread? Thankfully, on Android, there are a number of workarounds you possibly can attempt as an alternative.

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Arguably the simplest option to get your Android textual content messages printed is by taking a screenshot of your dialog after which printing out this image. This is how to take action:

1. Open the precise thread in your textual content app.
2. Do a display seize. This usually means long-pressing on each the facility and quantity buttons, or tapping the Screenshot choice from the Fast Settings.
3. Launch Google Pictures.
4. Discover your screenshot from the library.
5. Faucet on “Share” on the backside.
6. Choose Print. If you cannot discover this feature, develop the Share menu by deciding on Extra and pulling up the panel that seems.
7. Press the “Paper measurement” button to alter it into your most well-liked measurement (e.g., Letter, Authorized, ISO A4).
8. (Non-compulsory) Modify the colour, orientation, pages, and copies to fit your wants.
9. If you happen to’ve already linked your Android to a printer, choose the printer within the top-left nook.
10. In any other case, faucet on the blue “Save as PDF” icon within the higher proper of the display to transform your screenshot to a PDF file that you could then ship to your pc for printing.

The draw back of this methodology, nonetheless, is that you’re going to find yourself printing every screenshot on a separate paper. This may doubtlessly degrade the standard of the picture and make the textual content tougher to learn. So as an alternative of printing the screenshots immediately out of your Android telephone, you possibly can insert them in a clean Google Docs or Phrase file, with about three to 4 screenshots per web page. Then, export the Docs or Phrase file as a PDF.

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If you happen to’re utilizing Google Messages (which occurs to be the default textual content app on most Android telephones), you possibly can entry your textual content conversations from Google Chrome in your pc and print them from there. This is how to take action:

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1. Launch Chrome in your PC or Mac.
2. Go to Google Messages for Net. 
3. Click on on “Check in” to log in to Google Messages together with your Google account.
4. Open the Google Messages app in your Android.
5. Faucet the profile icon within the upper-right nook.
6. Choose “Machine pairing” from the menu.
7. Ensure you’re utilizing the identical account logged into the net app. 
8. Hit “Proceed as [your name].”
9. Again in your PC, refresh the net app. This then initiates the sync course of together with your telephone, and an emoji ought to seem. 
10. In your Android, faucet on the identical emoji displayed in your pc. Your Android and pc will then sync, and your textual content messages will present up on the internet app nearly instantly.
11. Discover and open the dialog you want.
12. Scroll to the beginning of the textual content thread or to the part you wish to print.
13. Click on on the three-dot vertical menu within the top-right nook of Chrome (not the net app).
14. Choose “Print” from the menu.
15. Within the Print dialog that seems, select your linked printer because the Vacation spot. If you have no printers arrange but, choose “Save as PDF” as an alternative.
16. (Non-compulsory) Edit the opposite print configurations, such because the format (portrait or panorama), coloration (coloration or black and white), paper measurement, pages per sheet, margins, and scale.
17. Hit “Print” or “Save” to complete.

Relying on how lengthy your textual content dialog is, you could have to repeat the above steps a pair extra occasions to print the whole thread.

The SMS Backup & Restore app is designed for maintaining a backup of the textual content messages in your Android machine. But it surely additionally comes with a print function that allows you to convert the XML backup file into a neater to learn PDF. Comply with these steps to make use of the free SMS Backup & Restore app to print your Android’s textual content conversations:

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1. Set up SMS Backup & Restore
2. Press “Get Began” on the app’s house web page.
3. Give the app the mandatory permissions.
4. Faucet on “Set Up A Backup.”
5. Flip off Name Logs in the event you solely want to again up your messages.
6. (Non-compulsory) To again up solely sure conversations, faucet on Superior Choices, change to “Chosen conversations solely,” and press Change. Then, mark your conversations of alternative.
7. Hit Subsequent.
8. Select whether or not to avoid wasting your backup in your telephone or in a cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive). You will have to log in to the cloud storage service to make use of it.
9. Choose Subsequent.
10. If you’d like your backup to remain up to date, preserve “Schedule recurring backups” turned on and select the frequency. In any other case, disable the schedule choice.
11. Press “Again Up Now” to proceed.
12. After the method is completed, faucet the hamburger menu within the upper-left nook.
13. Choose “Print from backups.”
14. Faucet on the backup file.
15. Select the dialog you’ll want to print.
16. (Non-compulsory) Modify the paper measurement, orientation, and coloration to your liking by urgent the down arrow.
17. Hit the “Save as PDF” icon within the top-right nook.
18. Select the place to avoid wasting your PDF file.

You now have your textual content dialog in PDF type, and you may proceed to switch the file out of your Android to your PC or Mac for printing. Nonetheless, do notice that the PDF created will not seem like a typical textual content thread. As a substitute, the messages are organized in a desk with the sort (despatched or obtained) and date and time.

Droid Switch means that you can entry your Android’s textual content conversations in your Home windows PC and print them immediately or save them as PDF, HTML, or TXT. Nonetheless, it is value noting that the app is not free — you’d want to purchase the complete model to make use of the print function and duplicate the whole dialog. You may attempt the app’s free demo model, although, however it will solely export the primary six messages of a particular dialog. If the dialog you wish to print is just six texts lengthy, otherwise you’re keen to put money into a paid app, Droid Switch is a handy choice. This is the best way to use it:

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1. Join your pc and Android to the identical Wi-Fi community.
2. Set up Droid Switch in your Home windows PC and Switch Companion: SMS Backup in your cell.
3. Open each apps.
4. In your telephone, choose “Scan Droid Switch QR Code.”
5. When prompted, let the app use your telephone’s digicam.
6. Scan the QR code proven in your PC. This could instantly join your two units.
7. In your PC, press “Messages” to switch the textual content messages out of your Android to your pc.
8. Again in your telephone, choose “Enable” to present the Switch Companion app entry to your contacts and messages.
9. Hit “Retry” in your PC to proceed the switch. The method can take a number of minutes, relying on what number of conversations you could have.
10. As soon as the switch is full, open the dialog you wish to print.
11. If you happen to’re utilizing the Droid Switch paid model, choose “Print.”
12. If you happen to’re on the demo model, click on on “Save as PDF” and choose which folder to avoid wasting the file in. The textual content dialog will then be saved underneath the title of the contact you are speaking to.

The PDF saved will look just like an actual thread, full with speech bubbles, date, and time.