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Getting imessage / SMS / text conversations off an iphone with windows PC

I'm trying to get a text thread (with someone with a droid? their text bubbles are green) off an iphone. Yes, we can do screen captures of each page.  that's tedious and kinda long.

I looked on line and played with ifunbox and a couple other apps / iphone file browsers (phone is NOT jailbroken (is that a thing these days)).

None of those were successful / I didn't even know where to look for the thread.

But one - ibackup viewer has a free and paid version. Using the free version, it had me backup the phone with itunes then it read the backup file and easily let me export the thread as text - cute that it right and left justified the text from each person like it shows on the phone. And each was time stampld..  

it also lets you export the conversation as a PDF with colored text bubbles. Very nice!!!.. but the free version says 'demo' all over it. Understandable. Lets you try the product and if you need that feature, you buy the app.

But anyone know of other apps that will do this (pull off conversation as text or even better as PDFs / more graphical). Free or paid.  Just want to know if I was using the free apps wrong or there's more fully featured paid apps before I lay out $$

THANKS!
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jackie - I was salivating when I saw your note!

Got the iphone, logged into icloud, didn't see messages as 1 of the listed apps, went to the phone to see if I have to say yes / no to select imessage sync with icloud (couldn't find a page in settings to give info about icloud), started googling and found this:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/19/16332802/apple-ios-11-missing-apple-pay-cash-icloud-message

I know they are up to what, 11.0.3.  is imessage to icloud not in there yet?

and that brings up a point - this is a text message thread (green)...  wonder if all types of messaging will be on icloud.
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/18/macos-high-sierra-users-delays-receiving-imessages/

The feature will arrive later this fall after Apple has fixed the problem on iMessage in OS X High Sierra.

If you go to Settings -> Messages and have enabled iMessage, all SMS message received will be in iMessage.