Separating Text Messages

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Separating Text Messages

Multiple text messages are being strung together from a previous conversation with the same person, despite starting a brand new one. In other words, I text back and forth to a person, then the next day start a new text and the iphone somehow attaches it to the previous day's texts creating an incredibly long single text message. How do I prevent this from happening?

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Toshiba, Windows 7

Posted on Mar 3, 2011 5:59 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 3, 2011 7:01 PM in response to Tackleberry

You can't. In the Messages app there is only one entry per contact (actually phone number). Each time you send a message to that number, the message gets appended to that conversation. Any message received from that number gets added to that conversation.

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modular747

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Mar 3, 2011 7:28 PM in response to Tackleberry

new text and the iphone somehow attaches it to the previous day's texts creating an incredibly long single text message. How do I prevent this from happening?

Actually, that isn't happening since each transmission is displayed in a separate "bubble" within the conversation, so that it does NOT look like one long message.

You can prevent long conversations by:

1. Deleting each message after reading.
2. Editing long conversations by removing the portions you don't want to keep.

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