SMS Mailbox Full

Same issue had not recieved a single message after "upgrading" to iOS 5. I do have a few answers though, after hours on the phone with AT&T and Apple. 75,000 text message is the limitation of the SMS application. I found through google, an application called PhoneView from ecamm(not free) that will backup and all data on the iPhone but additional it tells you the number of messages. I had 101,732 messages on my iPhone 4. This is becauseI've had an iPhone since the original they were released in 2007. 101,000 message in over 4 years time. At no point was this an issue until i downloaded iOS 5. iOS4 had no problem with my amount of text messages. I was simply told to delete the messages. I wasn't explained why all of a sudden this is a problem. i have over 14GB of free space on my iPhone 4 but my "SMS Mailbox is full." I did however back up my phone and then went to reset menu on the phone and choose erase all contect and settings. After doing so I sent a message and a few minutes later I recieved all the messages from the entire day I hadn't recieved. I restored from my back and back to the same issues, so it's the amount of text messages. So now since there is no application that has the rights to manage iPhone iOS 4 or higher (i.e. iOS 5) I have to go thru and manually delete and the 27,000 messages I don't need one conversation at a time. Thanks iOS 5! 😠

Deleted all of my messages and still saying its full?

You have summed up exactly what I am experiencing... I would welcome Apple's response!! The staff at the call centre were no help what-so-ever... I have a $1000 iPhone which can't even receive SMS messages... Seriously considering throwing it in the bin and buying a BlackBerry... Please let me know if you figure out how to resolve this issue!!

hey APPLE,

this is so effed up. i too upgraded to the new iOS 5 and first of all, it kept crashing my phone. it erased everything and took at least 3 hours to update. i finally had to cancel the "restore phone" on it's 5th try. everytime it got to the end it sent an "error" message.

NOW, it says my SMS text messages are FULL and that i would not receive any until i deleted some messages.

Are you kidding me? Do you know how long i've had this phone. I don't have the time to go thru each text and decide which one's i need and which one's i don't. you better fix this problem. who are your beta testers before you guys put out new software upgrades? geez. now i wanna go back to my last operating system before i got this one. that's so lame.

FIX IT!!! 😠😠😠😠

Yep. Same here. I've been an iPhone(s) owner since the original and have never had so many issues with an "upgrade". I've touted the joys and simplicity of my iPhones (12 in the past 4 years) to all my friends who use anything else. I'm not so sure I'm feeling much joy or simplicity right now. It's ridiculous to think that a new and improved iPhone would have a lesser capacity for SMS messages - that's not progress. In addition, the Visual Voicemail isn't working - it just dials into the old fashioned voicemail list, starting with the oldest VM, and forces you to wade through messages like the throw-away mobile phones. While this new iPhone 4S has lots of cool features, I would expect the tried and true features like SMS and VVM to work as good or better than before.

I'm one very unhappy Apple Fan Boy right now. I will think long and hard about "upgrading" my other two iPhone 4 devices if this is how it's gonna be.

This is just plan BS. Ive talked to 2-3 tech, been to 2 apple stores and 1 att store and apples solution to me is to restore the phone to new and forget my old texts.

Same issue here. For someone OCD like me, I have to back up all my texts exchanges. And now your freaking apple asks me to delete them? How much time I have to go through texts of four years!!!!!!! Find a solution!😠😠😠

I am so furious over this I could SPIT BULLETS - worse yet is that Apple is MUM over this. Less than a month after Steve Jobs passes and Apple is already SCREWING THE POOCH.

How can we get our message across??

Ya I am a little behind and updated today. Wish I had seen this page. I am so ****** because it took me hours to update and now my itunes doesn't even recognize my iphone anymore. WTH??? And the message about my sms being full? This is such crap.

FIX THIS APPLE!!!!!!

Has anyone received any info to suggest that iOS5.1 might address this problem???

Great News!!! 5.0.1 has solved this awful problem!! 🙂 UPDATE UPDATE!!!!

Great News!!! 5.0.1 has solved this awful problem!! 🙂 UPDATE UPDATE!!!!