SMS Inbox Full

Not being a big text-messenger myself, is it possible this limit is on the network and not your phone? If so, just delete some of the message - the iPhone has a 'Clear' button in the upper right-hand corner of the messages screen that makes getting rid of many at a time REALLY simple.

 

why don't you want to delete the messages?? Are you going to use them as reference sometime in the future?? lol, just delete them

 

Agreed.

 

Interesting. I text message alot too, but always clear out conversations after about a week. Looking like Apple put a cap on the number of available stored text messages, or more likely a cap on the file size?

I'm gonna stop clearing them out and see how long it takes to fill...

 

Granted, I'm not a big texter, but I've never deleted a text message on my RAZR ...I think there are about 650 total on there right now.

I never delete my emails either.

It's come in handy more than once before!

 

i had a suspicion of this myself... i think apple put a cap on sms storage space, along with many other things.. i think they did this simply for the ipod function of the phone... this way, they can say that there is 7.24gb of storage in itunes, and that will never change, because everything that you do on the phone is set on how much it can hold... so that 7.24gb number will never change, and if you fill it up to 7.24gb of music, the phone can still recieve sms, email, etc because they have their own storage space that you cant touch.. not sure how you could get around this...

i remember reading an article that said something about how ridiculous the iphone is because it has a 700mb operating system.. that isnt true, that is just how much space is left for things other than music, photos, and video... the rest is saved for the os, sms, contacts, email, etc... seems like sms is one of the things that didnt get enough storage space...

 

AFAIK, there isn't....

 

You should let Apple know what ya think:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

 

Are you serious?!? My Moto PEBL could hold maybe 30 SMS messages before it got full. 650? Wow!!

 

Even my 50 euro Nokia can hold over 200 SMS messages.

 

one thing I love about my BB Curve is that the limit is, well, non-existent. I had well over 2,000 txts on my phone until yesterday. I also keep all my old emails on it, they do come in handy. I got an email from a newspaper editor(I'm a photographer) a while ago and I needed to email him about something, so I just searched my inbox and got the email.

 

I mean is there really a reason to keep all those text messages? I mean you paid for them so Im sure you want to keep them but cmon how many you need.

 

you're crazy..i love the texting on this device

 

This really bites! Does anyone know the total number of SMS the phone can hold?

 

the iphone can hold unlimited text messages...

..it just keeps archiving the old one's.. you can retrieve as far back as you have space.

I myself think it's great to save texts for proof of things you might need or to look old stuff up etc.. I usually dont delete texts especially from good friends or family..

However, after installing the iOS5 Beta, I too get the "your sms mailbox is full"!

 

Solution

So after a lot of googling, I started following this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16358150#16358150

and although some had discovered that after getting your total # of texts down to 61-65,000 was a solution, apparently the real deal is:

Hopefully between apple.com & macrumours.com the word will get out quickly (there are ALOT of frantic threads out there)