Guides · Updated November 2026

By Nicolas Zawadzki, who makes Message Mammoth. The free methods below don't need it.

How to print call history from your iPhone

iPhone has no export or print option for calls. There are three ways to get a record, and each covers something different.

1. Screenshots of Recents (free)

1. Open the Phone app and find your recent calls. Apple describes a Classic and a Unified layout for the Phone app, so where Recents appears depends on which one you use.
2. Take a screenshot: press the side button and volume up together on an iPhone with Face ID, or the side button and Home button on an iPhone with a Home button. Scroll and repeat.
3. For a call's exact details, tap the call, or the info button beside it, depending on the layout, then take a screenshot of that screen.

What goes wrong: the main list doesn't show the duration of each call, and older calls may not appear at all.

2. Records from your carrier

Your carrier keeps its own records of phone calls. Many carriers offer them in your online account or on request, and how far back they go depends on the carrier.

What goes wrong: carrier records cover calls on your phone number only, so FaceTime and WhatsApp calls won't appear. They may also show numbers rather than names.

3. Export calls to a PDF

Your iPhone stores call history, but Apple includes it only in encrypted backups, not in unencrypted ones. Message Mammoth on a Mac reads call history from an encrypted backup. If your iPhone's backups are already encrypted, skip to step 3.

Before you turn on encryption: Apple says the next backup overwrites your previous backups with an encrypted one. If an older backup may hold messages you need, keep a copy of it first. Store the password somewhere safe, because previous encrypted backups can't be used without it.

1. Connect the iPhone to your Mac with a cable and select it in the Finder sidebar.
2. Under Backups, select Encrypt local backup and create a password.
3. Open Message Mammoth and copy from the iPhone. Keep the phone unlocked and connected. An encrypted copy is always the whole backup, so allow 15 to 50 minutes, depending on how full the phone is. The app shows progress as it copies.
4. Enter the backup password when asked. It is used only on your Mac.
5. Choose Calls. You can export them with your messages in date order, or on their own as a call log.

Each call is a numbered entry with its time, its direction, the other party and its duration. Calls are described as the phone recorded them, for example "not answered". WhatsApp calls come with the WhatsApp data and don't need an encrypted backup.

It's free to preview every message and to try exports of up to 20 messages in total, calls and group events included. Unlimited exports are $29.99 once.

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Calls stored on a Mac

A Mac signed in to your Apple Account can hold phone and FaceTime calls too, and Message Mammoth can read them with no cable. A Mac keeps recent calls only, so the export's cover page states the date of the earliest call in the file. For a longer history, use an encrypted iPhone backup.

Which one to use