I have Zach’s phone. Zach’s phone has a lot of texts on it. I’ve kept it active – at no small expense to Noah, ultimately, since it comes out of the account that is now his – because I wanted to keep all those texts just as I am keeping all of Zach’s journal files.
Unfortunately, Apple’s security is such that I have been unable to get Zach’s AppleID password. This would allow me to download a text to email app. I’ve been reduced to taking screenshots one screen at a time and then putting them in a special foder that I was able to share and then access on my own ipad. Actually, I’m not sure this is really it because it’s been a couple of months since I did that. I lost heart when I came up to Zach’s text correspondence with Micah & Jake going back two years. I kept going back and more texts kept getting loaded.
Some of it is banal. Arguably, none of it was meant to be remembered but I have it and I want to be able to access it without paying $75/month to keep Zach’s phone active.
Now I also have Zach’s ipad. I can use it to access Zach’s email but not his texts, as far as I know. If anyone reads this and knows how to easily get texts off of an Apple phone, please get in touch with me.
If you think I am nuts and should just let it go, you can tell me that too. Comments are open.
Try Mightytext. This program allows me to receive texts on my computer. I don’t know if it will allow you to read old texts. Give it a shot. Miss ya brother
Thanks Juan. It seems Mightytext is Android only. Zach’s phone is an iphone. Even though the phone service has been discontinued, I can still read the texts but I can’t download any apps to help with the transfer.
Coming back to SF was the best thing I’ve done in a long long time. On the whole, my time in Sac was not a happy one. You are one of the very few there that I respected.
Chris