Why do photos reappear in my messages after I've deleted them?
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iPhone 13, iOS 16
Deleting photos from your “Photos” app does not automatically delete them from your text messages in the “Messages” app, and vice versa. If you delete a photo from a conversation in “Messages”, it only removes it from that specific conversation. The original photo still remains in your “Photos” app. If you delete it from the “Photos” app, it can still exist within your message threads.
To completely delete a photo from your device, you need to:
1. Delete it from the “Photos” app.
2. Delete it from the conversation in the “Messages” app.
3. Delete it from the “Recently Deleted” album in your “Photos” app (photos remain there for 30 days after deletion, unless manually removed).
Remember, if you’ve set your messages to automatically delete after a certain period of time, the photo will also be deleted when the message thread is. To check this setting, go to “Settings” > “Messages” > “Keep Messages”, and see if you have it set to 30 days or 1 year. If not, you can change it to automatically delete older messages and their attachments.
Also, if you’re using iCloud Photos and Messages in iCloud, the photos may reappear due to syncing with iCloud. You would need to ensure the photo is deleted from these locations as well.
As always, ensure you really want to delete these photos as this process is not reversible.
I am having the same problem. Did you find a way to delete your photos permanently? My storage is full and my iPhone is not working!! I need to free up space but the phone is not deleting anything. I am frustrated.
I don't use the photos app, have never used the photos app, and as a commercial photographer do not even want it on my machine as it is worthless for my purposes... but the photo attachments in messages keep coming back after I have deleted them... do I need to set up photos to delete messages that have never been used by messages?
What I’ve experienced is that it doesn’t happen with all the photos in iMessage but a few. Well that doesn’t matter when it comes to deleting them it should delete completely and to make it permanent I confirm it by deleting them from the Recently deleted folder in iMessage but what most horrifying is that they shows up at the same place in iMessage after awhile.
Have you guys also checked deleting them from recently deleted and still facing the issue?
iMessage = Weird
I’m having this issue right now. I deleted my recently deleted photos and that went fine. The first few screenshots I tried deleting also went away but o tried deleting a bunch and none are gone now. Same thing just happened with my messages. O do deliveries through an app and wanted to deleted all the msgs to customers and they’re all back
The photos I am deleting that keep re-appearing in the messages info.
That is, they are NOT in the photoapp and they are NOT in the messages but in the info part, they keep reappearing.
Would love to hear an answer for this.
No it did not fix this issue. I posted my original comments in June, not too long after the 17.5.1 release. And that release has to do with it remaining in the photos library. They are still somehow in the messages info. They are not in the photos library.
ThreeDinoMum Said:
“[…]iCloud is not synced with iPhotos, so that shouldn’t be the issue.[…]”
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Is there a cloud on these? They should not be downloading in their own, AFAIK.
mera Phone me se delete photo delete me se delete ho Gaya kase laana
My photo storage is full so I keep deleting
them and they keep coming back why?
>300 people “me too” -ed this, yet I don’t see a single response/explanation…?
When I delete large attachments to save space on iPad, they reappear. How do I solve this?
iPhone deleting one photograph of the time is very boring. I’d like to be able to delete that mark and delete like 20th 38 times at.
Is this a cash grab to make your storage full and cause you to pay for storage?
Thank you for the advice.
I was hopeful when I read what you wrote. I tried it a couple of times and variations of it and it did not work for me.
Photos are still there.
It’s July 12th. 17.5.1 did not fix this issue. This is unacceptable. Were you able to find a solution?
Photos keep re-appearing after deleting on iPhone
