Copying one iMessage text conversation from your phone to my phone

Post date: 2020-02-12 11:59:12

On my iPhone I accidentally deleted an iMessage exchange I had going with my husband (about three years' worth of conversation). He is alive and well but I am stupidly sentimental and despondent at the loss of this lovely record of our daily conversation. He still has the whole conversation in his iMessages on his phone. Is there ANY way to just copy the conversation from his phone to mine?

I know that in the most common situation--you buy a new iPhone and want to transfer everything from your old phone onto it--you'd just backup all of your old stuff to iTunes or the Cloud or whatever, and upload to the new phone. And then are apps like iMazing that let you export a conversation to PDF or text so you can save to your computer for posterity's sake and whatnot (which is what I'll settle for if needed).

But is it at all possible to just pull *one* iMessage conversation from *one* person's phone and copy it on to a *second* person's phone (again, not a second phone belonging to the same person) without a whole complicated backup scenario (where you would potentially wipe out everything on the second phone and replace it with all of the stuff from the original phone)? I guess the ideal solution would let me copy the conversation "file" over to my iPhone, and as we continue to send each other new messages, it just continues in that same exchange. (As I write this out it seems increasingly unlikely but couldn't hurt to ask!)

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