What's more, you can't access your full message history through Windows 11, only the messages sent and received while the connection to your PC is active.

Not too long ago, an Instagram follower reached out to me because she lost every one of her text messages. That included a three-year thread with her husband, who just passed away. You can imagine ...

As with Apple's iMessage, Messages for Web lets you carry on conversations from your computer screen. Note that you might have to re-pair your phone with your desktop from time to time.

Android Messages just paired to your phone to a computer, laptop, or even an iPad. Now, you’re ready to text from a computer with Android on the web. You can send messages, emojis, stickers and ...

There are text messages you don’t want to lose. You can back them up using your phone’s native apps or go with a third-party option.

If backups are of major importance, with Coolmuster you have the ability to easily copy and backup multiple file types including media, text messages, applications and so on.

If searching through your text messages is important to you, then AirDroid —which is a complete Android-to-PC control solution (not just texting)—is your best option.

If you're using Google Messages (which happens to be the default text app on most Android phones), you can access your text conversations from Google Chrome on your computer and print them from there.