Deleting Multiple Images in imessage

I’m curious, from this same thumbnail screen, when you back out and switch from one text to another, does it display those thumbnails from your previous thread on the new thread? I’ve had all thumbnails ever from all the different texts threads pop up in a conglomerate/mixed up way in one text thread/panel view. It’s definitely a glitch. I wish I had a screen shot. Also, sometimes you’ll see an icon or timer like it’s a Live Photo or video then you open it and it’s a regular picture. Anyone seen those issues or others from that thumbnail view within a text thread under info>show photos?

to me this issue has multiple layers to it. Apple found out years ago that they were making buck on additional services (icloud 99 cents a month) because photos and videos are taking too much space in Icloud to ever back up your phone. Making photos and videos easy to delete would go against their big cash cow. I talk to a lot of my friends about this issue and they all just surrendered and just purchased more space. So many of older non techy folks buy icloud space because that's what their phone tells them and they dont know enough to be able erase their imessage photos let alone when they figure out how to do it, who actually wants to take time to do it.

While this does work, its not convenient like it was before. If you go months or even just weeks, you have to then scroll through extensive lengths of message to find what you have to delete. In addition, you then have to wait for past messages to load as you go back. Your option is a good temporary option but really they should reinstate the option to do it from the info screen.

This is only helpful for the first few images in a conversation. Not if you have to go through the !entire! conversation. I want to see !per person! which images I want to keep or delete. In the info of the attachments I cannot delete multiple photo’s anymore. The view in General->iPhone Storage->Review Large Attachments does not show to which user conversation it belongs.

I cannot believe why Apple has to make it so **** hard for users to manage their data in such a hard and users unfriendly way.

that was the old way that worked with the little circle and you could select multiple photos. I have ios 13 and when you hold your finger on any photo in the message the dialog box does pop up. However, the MORE option is not available any more. There is Save, Copy, Share, or Delete. You can only delete ONE message at a time. Big pain.

I just updated to iOS 13.2. A “Select” option has been added to save or delete multiple images.

HOWEVER, there is STILL a bug that prohibits random photos from being deleted. I’m going to the Apple store for an explanation.

If you tap the contact's photo, then select the "i" you will see the thread details, including pictures. Choose the option under the first few pictures that says "Show All Photos". From there, you can choose "Select" on the top right of the screen and select and delete multiple pictures.

This is BS on Apple’s behalf. I’m getting very close to giving androids a chance. I have enjoyed iphone because its simple and easy to use but now I can’t even delete pictures in messages that I don’t want in a speedy manner. I have to delete them one by one!! Who has time for that? I have 922 photos and I probably just want to delete 800... Plus every time I get a new phone i have to once again connect to my laptop and choose all the songs I want into my phone. If there was external storage available I would save it there and never have this problem. I don’t understand why music isn’t part of the back up... it takes time to put music back into my phone... Apple, if you’re reading this, you’re pushing me away as a customer....my backup should give me the option to also backup music or not. It shouldn’t be automatic. And I should be able to select what I want to delete in messages not just one by one...

It is not the same. In older versions (which I still have on my phone not my iPad) you were able to go into details and all photos would appear for that specific text phone number and you would be able to just swipe through all the photos and hit delete. So much easier

than the current solution you published where you have to scroll up and down to each photo and specifically hit each circle...that is a big step backward for a bunch of us..

My new problem is that none of my photos are showing up! I just have a cute little message that says, “More photos will be shown once Messages finishes indexing.”

Its been over a week. Same message. No photos. Anybody know what to do??

This removed feature to delete multiple pictures in text messages via the details screen is SO FRUSTRATING!!!! The current method of deleting pictures one at a time via the scrolling method is too time consuming.

Apple change it back!!!

I don't find this response helpful at all because it's not deleting the photos in the area of iMessage that the complaint was mentioning. Your option would need to have the person scroll through their conversation and delete the photos, which is not what the original complaint was about. The complaint is in reference to the photos only portion of iMessage where the user could select many photos at once and delete them.

Try to be more thoughtful in your response instead of just providing another option to delete the photos which is very time consuming and cumbersome.

It’s awful!! I delete pictures or attachments under iMessage and they come back or will not delete. I contacted Apple 4 times since getting my iphone11. I get the run -around and I have spent hours talking to Apple support who act like they have no clue about the issue! Be honest with us. I never had this with iOS 12 on my iPhone 6!!!

Yes, I updated to 13.2.2 and can delete more than one attachment /picture iMessage BUT still there are pictures that I can not delete or they still come back!!! I know I have much more storage on mine 11 than 6 but don’t want these taking up storage!!! And if I want to delete a problem I want it deleted!!!!!

Same problem with my SE. Random photos will not deleted within iMessages. I’m running iOS 13.2.2. Also my Mail and FB Apps, among others, run SLOW. At times messages will not appear and cannot delete...oh boy!