Are you sure the 6.7gb of messages are actually stored on your phone. I was under the impression that messages are stored in icloud. It could just be showing you the storage space it takes on icloud, but it doesn't count against your allotted. I could be wrong, I looked into it a while back. Don't remember at the moment.
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iPhone Messages (Saved) 6.7GB! How can I delete these?
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When I go to settings>General>usuage> I see that I have 3.2GB of messages stored. Can someone tell me how to delete those messages? I don't even know where all of these messages could be stored. I don't think I am storing them in icloud.
I always delete my messages because I don't like having so many message things open, so those messages are not directly on my phone.
As you can see it's taking up way too much of my storage.
I have no need to save any text messages. If anything were that important to me I could take a screen shot of it and email it to myself or something.
Please someone help me because I have searched everywhere and asked everyone I can think of and no one has any idea how to help me..
Thanks in advance.
I always delete my messages because I don't like having so many message things open, so those messages are not directly on my phone.
As you can see it's taking up way too much of my storage.
I have no need to save any text messages. If anything were that important to me I could take a screen shot of it and email it to myself or something.
Please someone help me because I have searched everywhere and asked everyone I can think of and no one has any idea how to help me..
Thanks in advance.
iMessage eating up space with saved Messages ARGGHHH!
Hey all,
I think i found a workaround for this. I've been deeply bothered by this and have been unable to download the past 2 ios updates due to lack of space. I refuse to delete any pictures and as far as apps go i only have actual useful apps that i actually use so that is not an option either.
The big issue here is my phone held onto 5gbs pof saved messages without me being able to control that. However; i was able to delete most of the messages and brought my saved messages from 5gbs down to only 1 GB.
Please excuse any technical jargon that does not really make sense here. I'm just a mac user who trouble shot on his own NOT a IT specialist of any sort.
The first thing you want to do is put your phone into airplane mode so it cant communicate with any cloud servers and refresh your messages while you are trying to delete. Next if you have an ipad hooked up to recieve your phones imessages as well, go ahead and turn off imessages in settings on your ipad. You can repeat this process later to remove messages from your ipad. Once you are in airplane mode go ahead and start deleting messages. Only thing is you want to go into the actual conversation, hold down on some text so it gives you the "copy, or more" option. Select more, and then go to the top left hand corner of the message and choose "delete all". After you have deleted all messages in that particular conversation, return to the main messages screen and delete the actual conversation (slide left>click delete OR edit>click the minus sign>delete).
It is a little meticulous but i was able to get the update downloaded and installed. It's not a solution but definetely a workaround that I can live with. Not sure how it will pan out after the update. Phone is resetting now.
Lemme know if this worked for anyone else!
Hey all,
I think i found a workaround for this. I've been deeply bothered by this and have been unable to download the past 2 ios updates due to lack of space. I refuse to delete any pictures and as far as apps go i only have actual useful apps that i actually use so that is not an option either.
The big issue here is my phone held onto 5gbs pof saved messages without me being able to control that. However; i was able to delete most of the messages and brought my saved messages from 5gbs down to only 1 GB.
Please excuse any technical jargon that does not really make sense here. I'm just a mac user who trouble shot on his own NOT a IT specialist of any sort.
The first thing you want to do is put your phone into airplane mode so it cant communicate with any cloud servers and refresh your messages while you are trying to delete. Next if you have an ipad hooked up to recieve your phones imessages as well, go ahead and turn off imessages in settings on your ipad. You can repeat this process later to remove messages from your ipad. Once you are in airplane mode go ahead and start deleting messages. Only thing is you want to go into the actual conversation, hold down on some text so it gives you the "copy, or more" option. Select more, and then go to the top left hand corner of the message and choose "delete all". After you have deleted all messages in that particular conversation, return to the main messages screen and delete the actual conversation (slide left>click delete OR edit>click the minus sign>delete).
It is a little meticulous but i was able to get the update downloaded and installed. It's not a solution but definetely a workaround that I can live with. Not sure how it will pan out after the update. Phone is resetting now.
Lemme know if this worked for anyone else!
I'm having the same problem and I've let my phone sit over night, 8 hours straight for the past 2 nights, and when I wake up I have to restart my phone because it won't send messages. When I restart my phone, the person who messages I was trying to delete is back. I'm not sure if it hasn't deleted any of them or just not all of them. Many days later, My friends told me that a simple deletion cannot permanently erase all deleted data from device, they can be still recovered by data recovery, and he recommended a tool name: safewiper that can permanently deleted messages from iPhone without recovery.
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Hi. You should start a brand new thread with this issue. Unless I misunderstood, it doesn't sound like you have the exact same issue.
Got the answer to saved messages and huge data not being deleted. Go settings, messages, keep messages for and the default is forever. Change it to one month and they all disappear and you get your space back.
Delete saved nessages
Go to settings, messages. Under message history change from forever to 30 days
Go to settings, messages. Under message history change from forever to 30 days
I have found the solution!!!
Look! All you have to do to get your space is change the message history!!! I had 5.9GB of my space taken by old messages! Go to settings>messages and then click on message history and change it to either 1 year or 30 days!!! you will be good without resetting your phone!!!!
Look! All you have to do to get your space is change the message history!!! I had 5.9GB of my space taken by old messages! Go to settings>messages and then click on message history and change it to either 1 year or 30 days!!! you will be good without resetting your phone!!!!
So after a year of experimenting I finally figured out a very simple solution. When you open a message thread, click where it says 'details' at the top right. In there you will find every picture and video you've ever sent or received from that person. Hold your finger on a picture and selecte 'more' and then you just have to select every picture and press delete. All in all, I deleted close to 2,000 pictures and videos which gave me back about 8GB of space. (Thanks group messages). But now in my storage, I only have 80MB of saved messages and I could not be happier!!
Wouldn't that restore any and all messages and their media, which would take up the space again?
Even with 10.3.2, I have 370MB of saved messages, even though I have deleted every message - the Messages app shows a complete blank.
Yes, I have waited for the messages to clear. Stop rehashing that.
There has to be a bug where old messages/attached video/photo/etc. are not getting properly released. I cannot believe this is not fixed, come on Apple!
Apple's standard script is to erase and set up as a new phone. Sorry, this is NOT ACCEPTABLE. You can't even restore from backup as the lost message data is stored in the backup.
Yes, I have waited for the messages to clear. Stop rehashing that.
There has to be a bug where old messages/attached video/photo/etc. are not getting properly released. I cannot believe this is not fixed, come on Apple!
Apple's standard script is to erase and set up as a new phone. Sorry, this is NOT ACCEPTABLE. You can't even restore from backup as the lost message data is stored in the backup.