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Nope, it doesn't delete any of your messages unless you manually do so. It can get slow as you keep loading earlier messages. I've got message threads that go all the way back to December 2009 for example. (iPhone 3GS).
One annoying thing is the iPhone Messages search only actually searches your recent text messages, I just wish it would search through all messages (old & new)
One annoying thing is the iPhone Messages search only actually searches your recent text messages, I just wish it would search through all messages (old & new)
According to my latest back up my iPhone currently holds 32,862 text messages, I've read somewhere that it can hold roughly 75,000 text messages (someone correct me if I'm wrong). It hasn't affected the iPhone's battery or performance in my case nope.
Neither. I don't know how big they are, but considering a text file is around 1 to 10 kb, I can't imagine that large. I also have conversations going back to 07, you'll be fine.
How did you find out how many text messages are in your backup?
I use this software called 'iPhone Backup Extractor' basically you can extract all your text messages into an Excel document etc. It's not the best software, still looking around for a better one
Phoneview; it's amazing. You can save an entire conversation with someone as a pdf. Well worth the $20.I use this software called 'iPhone Backup Extractor' basically you can extract all your text messages into an Excel document etc. It's not the best software, still looking around for a better one
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Text messages are such small pieces of data that you can store 75000 (or whatever the actual amount of messages) and not run out of room.
I deleted all my texts recently to see what kind of room I saved...I had messages from 2009 and when I cleared all of them I saved about 200 MB of data.
Text messages are such small pieces of data that you can store 75000 (or whatever the actual amount of messages) and not run out of room.
I deleted all my texts recently to see what kind of room I saved...I had messages from 2009 and when I cleared all of them I saved about 200 MB of data.
Big time plus one for PhoneView! My sister passed away in 2010, and I really wanted to save her text messages... PhoneView made that really easy to do.