# How to print Facebook Messenger messages, on phone or computer. > You can print Messenger messages, just not with a print button — Messenger doesn’t have one, in the app or on the web. For a few messages, take screenshots on your phone or computer and print them like photos. For the whole conversation, download it first on a computer: at facebook.com/messages, go to Privacy & safety → End-to-end encrypted chats → Message storage → Download message storage data. Then print the messages from that file yourself, or turn it into a keepsake and print the PDF. - Canonical: https://storyofus.app/print-facebook-messenger-conversation/ - Last updated: 2026-10-16 Printing a Facebook Messenger conversation starts with one honest answer: Messenger has no print button, in the app or on the web. So the route depends on how much you want on paper — a few favourite messages, or the whole conversation. ## Can you print messages from Messenger? Yes — just not directly. There are three ways, from quickest to most complete: - **A few messages, on your phone:** screenshot them and print the screenshots like any photo. - **A few messages, on a computer:** open the chat at **facebook.com/messages** and take screenshots. Your browser’s own Print command (Ctrl+P on Windows, Cmd+P on Mac) is worth a try, but it usually prints only what’s on screen, and not always neatly. - **The whole conversation:** download it from Messenger’s settings on a computer, then print from the file. That’s the step-by-step below. ## How to print Messenger messages on your phone The Messenger app on iPhone and Android has no print or export option for a chat, so screenshots are the phone route. Open the conversation, scroll to the messages you want, and screenshot each screen. On iPhone, open the screenshots in Photos, tap **Share**, then **Print** to send them to an AirPrint printer; on Android, use your photo app’s print option if it has one, or send the screenshots to a computer and print from there. It works well for a handful of messages — for months or years of conversation, use the download below. ## How to print Messenger messages from a computer For the whole conversation, download it first. Messenger on a computer now lives at facebook.com/messages, and the download for end-to-end encrypted chats — which is most personal chats now — is only available on a computer, not in the phone app: 1. **Open Messenger on a computer.** Go to facebook.com/messages in your browser — Meta has retired the Messenger desktop apps and messenger.com, so this is Messenger on a computer now. 2. **Open Message storage.** Open Messenger’s settings, then choose Privacy & safety, then End-to-end encrypted chats, then Message storage. 3. **Download message storage data.** Click Download message storage data, enter your PIN or use a one-time code, then click Download file and enter your Facebook password when prompted. 4. **Wait for the file.** Click Download. Meta can take several minutes to prepare the file, which arrives as a zip archive. 5. **Find the conversation.** Unzip the download and find the .json file for the conversation you want to print. 6. **Print it.** Copy the messages into a document and print it yourself, or drop the .json file into Story of Us and print the keepsake PDF it makes. Some older guides call this setting **Secure storage** and the button **Download secure storage data** — it’s the same download. [The import screen](https://storyofus.app/upload/messenger) walks through it step by step, or read the full [Messenger export guide](https://storyofus.app/guides/export-messenger-chat/) first. ## Older chats that aren’t end-to-end encrypted If a conversation isn’t in the message storage download, it comes from Meta’s general export instead: **Export your information** in Accounts Center, which Meta documents for both the Facebook app and a computer. On Facebook, go to **Settings & privacy** → **Settings** → **Accounts Center** → **Your information and permissions** → **Export your information** → **Create export**, pick your profile and **Export to device**, then choose what to include. For printing, the format matters: **HTML** opens in your browser like a web page, the easiest thing to print as it is; **JSON** is the format the keepsake reads. Meta lets you know when the export is ready, and it waits under **Available downloads** for four days. ## Route A: print the raw conversation Once you have the file, you can copy the messages into a document or spreadsheet and print from there — or, with Accounts Center’s HTML format, open the conversation in your browser and print it directly. It works, and you get the verbatim record: every message in order, with dates and timestamps. The tradeoff is that a message storage download is a JSON data file rather than a document, so expect some cleanup before it reads well — and a years-long history becomes a very long document with no story in it. ## Route B: build a keepsake, then print it yourself Story of Us starts from the same file and builds something different: not a reprint of the conversation, but a short keepsake written from the patterns inside it — your pet names, your rituals, the year you talked the most, the phrase you didn’t know you repeated. Drop the conversation’s `.json` straight into your browser — the file itself is read locally, never uploaded — and read the result together on screen in about a minute. Then download it as a PDF and print it yourself, at home or a print shop: a few nice pages that read like a book of your own words, instead of weeks of waiting. ## What you get Printing keeps every Messenger line. A keepsake keeps what those lines added up to. It’s built only from your own history: pet names and inside jokes it noticed on its own, your year-by-year rhythm, your busiest hour, the words you reach for without thinking. Read it on screen, then download the PDF to keep or print, ready in about a minute. No subscription, nothing shipped. ## Privacy, plainly Your Messenger download never leaves your device: it’s read right there in your browser. To write the captions, a much smaller slice goes to our server: your most-used words and phrases, counts and rhythms (who texts more, your streaks, your busiest hour), and a few sample messages, your first texts and your most recent. Never the file, never the whole conversation. [Read exactly what we send →](https://storyofus.app/privacy) ## Which route should you pick? The raw print is the right choice when you need the record itself: every Messenger message, dated and in order. The keepsake is the right choice for a gift: the story *in* the messages, printed the same day. Plenty of couples keep both, with the download filed away and the keepsake on the fridge. Talk on iMessage instead? [Make a iMessage keepsake →](https://storyofus.app/imessage-chat-keepsake/) Start from the export itself: [Messenger export guide, step by step →](https://storyofus.app/guides/export-messenger-chat/) The download itself, explained: [What is inside a Messenger data download →](https://storyofus.app/messenger-data-download/) Want the full book treatment? [Messenger chat book options →](https://storyofus.app/messenger-chat-book/) Printing from iMessage instead? [Print an iMessage conversation →](https://storyofus.app/print-imessage-conversation/) Printing from WhatsApp instead? [Print a WhatsApp conversation →](https://storyofus.app/print-whatsapp-conversation/) Keepsake vs. printed book, in detail: [the full comparison →](https://storyofus.app/chat-keepsake-vs-chat-book/) Just curious about the raw numbers? [Count your texts free, right on this device →](https://storyofus.app/how-many-texts-have-we-sent/) Making it a gift? [See the anniversary keepsake →](https://storyofus.app/anniversary-gift-from-messages/) ## Sources - [Meta Help Center: Download your data from Messenger end-to-end encrypted chats](https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/677912386869109) - [Meta Help Center: Export a copy of your Facebook information](https://www.facebook.com/help/212802592074644) - [Meta Help Center: using Messenger on a computer at facebook.com/messages](https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/804132271957789) - [Apple Support: Use AirPrint to print from your iPhone or iPad](https://support.apple.com/en-us/109349) - [Story of Us: how to download Messenger chat history](https://storyofus.app/guides/export-messenger-chat/) - [Story of Us: exactly what we send and keep local](https://storyofus.app/privacy) Last verified: October 9, 2026 ## Questions ### Can you print messages from Messenger? Yes, but not with a print button — Messenger doesn’t have one, in the app or on the web. For a few messages, take screenshots and print them like photos. For the whole conversation, download it on a computer from Privacy & safety → End-to-end encrypted chats → Message storage → Download message storage data, then print from that file or turn it into a keepsake PDF. ### How do I print Messenger messages from a computer? Go to facebook.com/messages in your browser — the Messenger desktop apps and messenger.com have been retired. For a few messages, take screenshots or try your browser’s Print command. For the whole conversation, open Messenger’s settings and choose Privacy & safety, then End-to-end encrypted chats, then Message storage, then Download message storage data; unzip the file, find the conversation’s .json file, and print from that. ### How do I print Messenger messages on my phone? Take screenshots of the messages you want and print them like photos — on iPhone, from Photos with Share and then Print to an AirPrint printer. The Messenger app has no print or export button, and the full-conversation download for end-to-end encrypted chats is computer-only, so for a long history use a computer. ### How do I print a Facebook Messenger conversation? Download the conversation first, because Messenger has no print button. For end-to-end encrypted chats, use Download message storage data in Messenger’s Privacy & safety settings on a computer; for older chats, use Export your information in Accounts Center. Unzip the download and find the conversation’s file, then either copy the messages into a document and print it yourself, or drop the .json file into Story of Us in your browser and print the resulting keepsake as a PDF. ### What file am I actually printing from? From the message storage download, a .json file — the single conversation’s transcript inside the unzipped download. Accounts Center’s export lets you choose HTML, which opens in a browser like a web page, or JSON. Story of Us reads the .json file directly in your browser; the file itself is never uploaded. ### Will printing show messages I deleted? Generally no — the download reflects what is currently in the conversation, so anything deleted before you request it won’t be there to print. ### Can I print the keepsake instead of the raw chat? Yes. Instead of hundreds of pages of Messenger transcript, the keepsake is a few pages you download as a PDF and print at home or at a print shop. 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