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Work · February 26, 2021

Past for iChat

Open old iChat chat logs on macOS Big Sur

Past for iChat launched on February 26, 2021 with 62 votes, #892 of 3,133 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

What it does

Past for iChat is a little application to open and view old chat log files created by Apple's iChat application an macOS Big Sur and later. iChat was the predecessor of the new and improved Messages.app in macOS 11, which (unfortunately) doesn’t support opening iChat files anymore.

Past App for macOS (Message Chatlog Reader)

The Past for iChat is a small macOS application to open old iChat logs ( .chat and .ichat files). Interested in letting us write an app for you? Contact us! The Past for iChat is a small macOS application to open old iChat logs ( .chat and .ichat files). Interested in letting us write an app for you? Contact us! The Past for iChat is a very simple viewer for iChat chat log files. Unfortunately the new and improved Messages.app coming with macOS Big Sur can't open old .ichat or .chat files anymore. Such chat logs got written by the older iChat application. The Past for iChat application tries to solve that and can display a wide range of iChat chat log files. How to find your iChat chat logs…from zeezide.de

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