iMessage on iPhone and iPad

[circatee]

To confirm, if I delete an iMessage on my iPhone, it should delete it on my iPad and vice versa, no?

This doesn't always seem to be the case for me. I'm not jail broken, and using the most current OS on both devices.

Any ideas?

 

[WordsmithMR]

I have read that it does... Has never been the case for me.

 

[C DM]

I don't believe things are set up to sync deletions across devices.

A somewhat older discussion about this kind of things seems to be aligned with that as well: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/does-imessage-sync-deleting-of-messages-across-devices.1813304/

 

[now i see it]

Deleting a Message from one device won't delete it from another. The Messages reside on the device. Not on iCloud

 

[cdcastillo]

To confirm, if I delete an iMessage on my iPhone, it should delete it on my iPad and vice versa, no?

No, the message will stay on the other device until deleted from there too.

 

[RobertBosworth]

I read that if you'll make note of the Apple ID at the top of the page and then select your phone number and email address that you want to sync to that device, you'll synchromize them, but I'm not sure that it causes deleting. Do your devices synchronized?

 

[C DM]

I read that if you'll make note of the Apple ID at the top of the page and then select your phone number and email address that you want to sync to that device, you'll synchromize them, but I'm not sure that it causes deleting. Do your devices synchronized?

Deletions do not get synchronized.