I posted on another thread this evening with info I looked up from a text conversation from a fella that passed last year. While seemingly insignificant, it got me to wondering if others archive some of those conversations? Screen shots? What about voice mail?

Interesting idea. Hope you find a way to do it.

I read an article recently that a lady texted her deceased father every day for 4 years, and suddenly received a response! The phone company assigned the number to someone else by then.

Maybe take a screen shot from the phone? Then forward the pics in an email to yourself. Save them in a folder in your email and on your desktop/cloud/external hard drive?

Is it an iPhone? If yes, backup everything on the cloud. Then go to icloud.com on your desktop. This is how I backup and save all my pics off my phone. But you might be able to save text conversations from there?

You can do the same with voicemails.
My Grandmother left me a message a few weeks ago. Nothing important. But it was her voice and she was calling to say thanks for something I sent her. Short and sweet. I forwarded the audio voicemail to my email and saved it.

PearlJammin said:

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Interesting idea. Hope you find a way to do it.

I read an article recently that a lady texted her deceased father every day for 4 years, and suddenly received a response! The phone company assigned the number to someone else by then.

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I read that. The guy that she was texting had also lost his daughter.

if you don't have iphone, you can record it on your pc with free audio recording software like https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.

Get a headphone cord that is male on each end. Plug one end into the phone and they other into the "Mic" (input) of a PC. Anything you play on the phone can then be recorded on the PC.

If you happen to have old audio cassettes that you want digitized (ie, kids' band concerts), you could use the same process.

This won't help on old messages if they are in a carrier voicemail account (verizon, att, etc). But going forward, if you are on Android, you can download and set up Google Voice. Then all of your messages are saved to your Gmail account, and can be played/downloaded from a browser on your PC.

I have "shared" voicemails that I want to keep to Google Drive. I then replicate them to my Amazon and other online cloud repositories.

Lifehacker page for both phones: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-save-important-voicemails-for-both-iphone-and-an-1833241417

PearlJammin said:

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Interesting idea. Hope you find a way to do it.

I read an article recently that a lady texted her deceased father every day for 4 years, and suddenly received a response! The phone company assigned the number to someone else by then.

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I've got a story for ya, Ags.

My sister and her husband and 3 sons used to live in Houston but moved to Lexington about 6-7 yrs ago.

This past December, her oldest son, my nephew, a 20 yr-old kid was killed in a car wreck.

In April of this year, my sister starts getting these notifications on snap chat that her son is typing. Obviously, it's unnerving to see. So she responds via snapchat to her son's number, "Who is this?"

Back in Spring, Tx, my son is talking with this girl he was crushing on before school starts and she gets this cryptic message on her phone, "Who is this?" She responds "Who is THIS?" The person on the other end explains that she is getting notifications that her son is on snapchat but the problem is that he died 4 months earlier. The girl is obviously shaken by this and mentions it to my son who is standing right beside her. He says, "Wait, ask her if she knows Willie Wonka's son." She does and the person on the other end says, "Yes, he's my nephew!"

When they moved to Lexington, his old phone number was given to this girl and my sister still had this old number in her phone and was following it on snapchat.