How do you get your iMessages from your old phone on to download or sync on to your new phone?

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how do you get your imessages from your old phone on to download or sync on to your new phone?

if you get a new phone and your contacts stay on the new phone but not the conversations on imessage, how do you tranpose thm from the old phone to the new phone?

 

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Re: how do you get your imessages from your old phone on to download or sync on to your new phone?

Back up your old iPhone to iCloud or iTunes. When you set up your new iPhone, choose restore from backup.