imessage taking up storage

hi! i recently just upgraded to my new phone. on my old phone, imessages only took up about 1.6 gb but on my new phone it takes ok 12.33. i deleted all the media in my messages and my messages also so idk what to do. please help 🙏🙏

iPhone 14 Pro

Posted on May 10, 2023 2:28 PM

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sberman

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May 10, 2023 2:40 PM in response to bryanna122

One thing you may do is open Messages, tap “Edit” on top, followed by “Show recently deleted messages”, and delete everything there.

Or tap each category shown in your top screenshot.

Tap “Edit” in the upper right and delete all relevant materially.

bryanna122 Author

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May 10, 2023 3:22 PM in response to sberman

hey i deleted everything in my top screenshot! but it’s okay i just went to my recently deleted and recovered them and am manually deleting each photo in the messages and it seems to be working

sberman

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May 10, 2023 3:27 PM in response to bryanna122

Great. Enjoy your iPhone.

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