Deleting Multiple Images in imessage

“Tap every photo you want to delete. Tap the trash icon and the Photos will delete.” Wrong! On both iPhone 7 and iPhone 8, even with the latest 13.3 iOS), instead of “...and the Photos will delete,” correctly: “...and the Messages app crashes”, especially if you tick more than 3 photos in the thread. Please address this bug!

Then there is an issue with your phone. It works exactly as I posted on both our iPhone's and both our iPad's. If the apps are crashing on your devices, you may need to do a backup and restore to fix whatever bug is effecting you.

Totally agree! So tired of people telling us how to delete a picture!!! Of course we know how to! There is something wrong with iMessage on iOS 13. Maybe some people don’t have the issue but many many people do have an issue!! At least we can now delete more than on picture at a time on iMessage like before iOS 13, but still issues that some pictures will not delete no matter what you do! Hate it. Please fix!!!!

Yes, that’s exactly how to do it! BUT some photos will NOT delete!!!! Again, we all know how to delete photos!!!! There is an issue or my daughter’s phone and my phone and many others have an issue!!!! I never had the problem on my ipad until 13 update! But again, thanks for telling us how to delete photos!!!

And I get it and they try to correct issues quickly. My biggest gripe is spending so so much time with Apple support and they act like they have no clue what we are talking about. Spent a lot of time with them, wasted time, thinking someone will be honest but no one will tell us they know the issues and working on it.

I have delete photos this way on my text message but they are not deleted, it just deletes them from your feed. If you go to your Information circle and look at your photos they are still there. I hope Apple fixes this. I agree others saying Apple is trying to get you to use their iCloud storage or up grade.

I have used the method described through the info tab but photos won’t delete from there. I have gone through the message to delete them in context & it will delete from the text thread but remain in the info tab. Is there a way to fix this issue?

Hi! I have had this problem on my new iphone11 and on my iPad since installing iOS 13!!!! Never ever had this problem with ios12. I have contacted Apple 5 times about this, they know it’s been an issue since update came out. Now, not only can’t I delete certain pictures, but more have reappeared that were deleted!! So, the answer is, Apple has to fix the issue, and again, I don’t need people telling me how to delete a photo or attachment! Problem is with software , not us using it!!!!!

Yes it does. If you tap and hold a photo in a text conversation, a box opens with More, which when you tap More circles appear on the left of every comment and photo in that message. Tap the circles and then the trash can on the bottom left corner.

You are right! Until that update you could not delete multiple pictures when you went to info by name of person texting with. Yes in the thread but not under info to do multiple but you can again now. But if you have pictures that won’t delete, it’s not you, an issue with iOS 13

Did the update and no change. If I open a text message. Click on info. Show all photos I still have to delete them one at a time. Holding down over a picture no longer gives me the option for “more” where I used to be able to select multiple photos to delete

You don't need to click on info if you're inside a text conversation. Just hold your finger on a photo in that message until the box with More appears. If you choose the info option, do you not see, Show All Photos below the first few photos? Tap Show All Photos, then select all you want to delete by tapping the circle, then delete.

After going to info, go to where it says “see all photos”, it is below the first group of 4 photos. The a select button will show in upper right corner, use that to select multiple photos or screenshots.

I agree that I don't think it's about buying more storage. However, the way that the original question was posted was much less frustrating than your suggested way. Yes, I've been using the More feature for years for when I needed to delete recent stuff but every once in a while I like to go in and delete the unnecessary photos from the history. Doing it your way is not efficient because most text threads contain... texts. The i screen groups the photos for easy management. As for getting used to new stuff, yes we will but for a smart device to be upgraded to a new iOS usually means that it's gotten more efficient and iOS 13 lost a lot of the intuitive ways of versions before. Here's hoping they hear our frustration.

I’ll give your link a try to let them know about the loss of functionality.

You mentioned the More option again, which I said was tedious because of the amount of text messages you have to scroll through in the thread but then you said “you can now delete as many photos as you want using the Info button”. That’s the functionality that I (and others) no longer have! So you’re saying you have it??? Hmmm, I wonder what happened to my iOS that it no longer does it on mine but you now have it. Is it new for you? I’ve had it for years but you phrased it as if you NOW have it. Maybe I just need to wait for it to come back. Hopefully not too long. It’s very unfortunate and a waste of space on my phone.