Search iPhone Text Messages with SQLite SQL Query
While you're here, check out some of our interactive visualizations: Would you like to visualize your text messages? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In my experience, the iPhone text message search functionality is usually pretty awful. Especially if you're trying to find a text from a few years ago. Luckily, if you backup your iPhone using iTunes, your text messages are exported/stored in a SQLite database, and it is fairly easy to query. Here are the steps to SQL Query your Text Messages. 1. Backup your iPhone using iTunes. 2. Find the SQLite file that contains your text messages . - in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/* with a filename of 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28 3. Ensure you have a SQLite Query tool ( SQLiteBrowser is pretty good ). 4. Open your SQLite Text Message DB File using your favorite SQLite query tool. 5. Execute this query to see all your mess