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10.4 GB of messages
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Rebooting won't do anything. Its a bug in the file system that we do not have access to. Therefore, deleting the messages, rebooting and syncing will not fix the problem.
Wow, I thought I texted a lotI've been using the same backup since 2010 and have thousands of messages and they only take up 590MB
Well the issue would have only occurred while you were on iOS 6.0. Before you updated to 6.0 and after you updated to 6.1, the bug was not occurring, so only attachments sent/received during that 3-4 month time frame would have affected you.
It's the photos/videos. I regularly build up gigs of iMessage convos that I have to clear out.
There's a good thread on here on how to clear it out. It had to do with some backups carrying over messages that were deleted. I had 6gb of messages that I had to delete through a process a user on the forums outlined.
Of course. This issue has been following me through different iPhones.
I deleted them manually on my Mac with ibackupbot then restored to the edited back up. All is well, got the 1.7 gb of space back on my phone and iCloud.
Believe me, Ibackupbot is the easiest way to clear down the storage taken up with deleted messages. Only takes a couple of minutes and works every time for me. There is still a bug in IOS with clearing down of old messages and so I do some housekeeping every couple of months to clear out the saved messages on both my iPhone and iPad
Not seeing this as an issue on my phone.
I thought I text a lot, but compared to you all. I practically don't even use my messaging.
I thought I text a lot, but compared to you all. I practically don't even use my messaging.