Deleting Multiple Images in imessage

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!!!

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!

“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!

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?

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.

Thank you for reminding me of this feature in Settings! I've seen it before, but tended to rely on deleting multiple pictures from individual threads. I was able to delete about 95% of my unnecessary used storage all at once & didn't have to go through each of my text threads to find them.

For those out there searching each text thread for pictures you're willing to sacrifice for storage, I would highly recommend this option first. Get rid of those bulky attachments and old random videos (and a million animoji videos & stickers nobody cares about anymore) first. It will save you time & keep you from deleting that sweet picture you can't bear to part with.

Mine do, as well. I have tried deleting several different ways as mentioned in the thread; and just updated to the latest apple update tonight. The pictures will not delete, or they return. Some were taken on "live" setting (have disabled) and show up as movies, when they are really just pictures. This is very odd, as several pictures were taken on Live (with a 10 second delay) of different scenes at different times of different subjects , but only certain ones won't delete. All I can think of--and I don't want to do this--is delete contacts completely (and all conversations/pictures etc) and then add them in again. I hope Apple fixes this. I DO NOT back up to itunes of the cloud.

yes they do. It’s not the only issue I have with the new ios. I have the storage I just want the images cleaned out.

Same issue here. This is seriously unfriendly move from Apple to by storage service. Please change it back!!