Back up your iPhone’s SMS Message Database
The instructions are here – a good plan to do this before you update. Anyway, it turns out that they’re kept in a sqlite3 file in /var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db if you want to do this on the iphone itself through terminal you need to apt-get install sqlite3 Then you need to convert to CSV: sqlite3 -csv -separator Read more about Back up your iPhone’s SMS Message Database[…]