With iOS 7 in usage you can see how much space you have taken with saved messages. I have 42 MB and I am trying to free up as much space as I can. Anyway to delete this stuff without resetting the phone?
You can't just go into the messages app and delete them one at a time?
They are still saved in the phone so they can be accessed with Spotlight, did you not know this?
Is that a glitch with iOS 7? Cause I've yet to try deleting messages after installing it. I dumped Beta 2 and went back to 6.1.4 til Beta 3 comes out.
I know when deleting messages in iOS 6 they actually go away and I get space back.
This occurred in all version of iOS. The only way I know of deleting it would be to reset the phone or.. jailbreaking, but I don't want to.
This occurred in all version of iOS. The only way I know of deleting it would be to reset the phone or.. jailbreaking, but I don't want to.
Doesn't look like anyone could find a solution.
I guess the only thing to do is to reset..? Urgh..
Why can't Apple fix these small things..? Why is it so difficult for them..
It's a beta. The second beta to be exact. Give it a bit man. Come on now
It's a beta. The second beta to be exact. Give it a bit man. Come on now
Oh yeah, forgot that iOS has been in Beta since its inception my bad.
What should I rollback to? 6? Oh, doesn't work there. 5? Nope, still not far back enough. 4? 3? LOL
he has a point. You can't delete it in iOS6 either.
Oh yeah, forgot that iOS has been in Beta since its inception my bad.
What should I rollback to? 6? Oh, doesn't work there. 5? Nope, still not far back enough. 4? 3? LOL
I've never had a problem deleting them and the space used being freed up. I think it has to do with a glitch on his phone with how he restored/backed up. A few people have/had this issue with iOS 7. I don't have the issue and did not have it before iOS 7 either. All messages deleted are removed, not searchable and free up any space they took.
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Because this will help resolve your problem.
Being for real? Because in every version of iOS, Messages are still saved for Spotlight..
- Make a backup in iTunes
- open iBackupBot
- go to the relevant backup
- hit Other Multimedia Files (you might have to click on the tab afterwards, in case it goes straight to camera roll instead)
- sort by filename by clicking the Filename tab
- go to MediaDomain/Library/SMS/Attachments and highlight all of them.
Now you can delete them all by right-clicking and choosing delete (you might want to export them first, up to you), close iBackupBot and restore to backup in iTunes.
Tadaa! Space recovered, texts/SMS/messages (whatever you call them) still there!
- Make a backup in iTunes
- open iBackupBot
- go to the relevant backup
- hit Other Multimedia Files (you might have to click on the tab afterwards, in case it goes straight to camera roll instead)
- sort by filename by clicking the Filename tab
- go to MediaDomain/Library/SMS/Attachments and highlight all of them.
Now you can delete them all by right-clicking and choosing delete (you might want to export them first, up to you), close iBackupBot and restore to backup in iTunes.
Tadaa! Space recovered, texts/SMS/messages (whatever you call them) still there!
With iOS 7 in usage you can see how much space you have taken with saved messages. I have 42 MB and I am trying to free up as much space as I can. Anyway to delete this stuff without resetting the phone?
I registered just to say THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH FOR THIS!! omg this was annoying the hell out of me. Glad I FINALLY got it fixed. Down to 450 megs from 9.6 gigs! Again thank you SO much!- Make a backup in iTunes
- open iBackupBot
- go to the relevant backup
- hit Other Multimedia Files (you might have to click on the tab afterwards, in case it goes straight to camera roll instead)
- sort by filename by clicking the Filename tab
- go to MediaDomain/Library/SMS/Attachments and highlight all of them.
Now you can delete them all by right-clicking and choosing delete (you might want to export them first, up to you), close iBackupBot and restore to backup in iTunes.
Tadaa! Space recovered, texts/SMS/messages (whatever you call them) still there!
I came here to say...well...certainly NOT thank you. My phone is stuck in some kind of a reboot loop after restoring from that backup. Great. DFU it is.
Don't trust this guy.