I have a very very long text message thread, having never deleted any texts with this person. It’s out of hand. I want to delete them and start afresh, but I want to keep the old threads (I can do without the photos in them). I can’t find information on how best to do this. When I switched phones, I used SMSBackupRestore to transfer my text messages to the new phone (a Samsung S23+ running Android 14). But that app doesn’t (as far as I can tell) allow you to selectively back up threads: it’s all or none. And the backup format is XML, and the files created are HUGE. My browsers run out of memory when I try to open these XML files. The only way to read them is with a viewer on the SMSBackupRestore website; without access to that, it seems that the files are unreadable. I also tried the Messages archive feature. But as soon as I received another text from that person, Messages restored the archive and added new text messages to that already lengthy thread. I want to save my texts in a readable format for back-reference, then start a completely new set of threads with this person. Is anyone out there doing this, and if so, how are you accomplishing it?