It can be a tedious or impossible job if the chat is endlessly long. This method is kind of analog and slow, and it comes in two different flavors (so to speak) but you can take screenshots of your phone’s screen of your particular chat simply by scrolling one step at a time and taking screenshots or screen capture. METHOD #2: Use Screenshot / Screen Capture feature Still, nice thing is that messages will have date/time timestamps and participant’s names in chronological order, along with the textual content next to every line. TextEdit, Notepad, WordPad, Word etc.) as explained in the video. However, on computers we can export specific chat messages into text document of choice (e.g. But, that’s not the main trick this time. You can then use screen capture or screen recorder app on your computer to make “analog” backup just as described in Method #2 above.

This method – watch video tutorial here – is a variation of the screenshot method, but instead on your phone, you can install Viber for Desktop on your PC and once you connect it with your phone’s Viber account (just follow instructions on PC, it is very easy to do it), all your chats will be there as long as you have it on your phone. This method is excellent for manual individual chat backups (e.g. copy/paste Viber images and videos files and folders to SD card or external USB flash memory stick). Note: Only textual messages can be exported this way – images and videos cannot! You have to manually backup Viber media files using separate procedure (e.g. Can you imagine how much stuff you can find in there? Practically, entire person’s history :)Īnyway, enough of the chitchat and let’s get onto work! HOW TO MAKE VIBER APP MESSAGES & CHATS BACKUPS METHOD #1: Use Viber Desktop PC or MAC version On another hand, I have friends and relatives which NEVER, like NEVER, delete anything from their chats, even when they move on to their new phones and do upgrades. That makes my Viber app and phone overall performance much more stable and faster. Now, why would you want to delete them in the first place? Well, I for one, like to keep things clean on my screen, and occasionally remove staled and old chats.

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