imessage history permanently delete

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imessage history permanently delete

I use iMessage and delete all my previous messages from my iPhone.

I recently backed up my iphone and a few days later tried to restore my iphone from the old backup, I did that and during those few days any iMessage I had sent and deleted all came back to my iphone. I thought i had deleted those messages for privacy reasons but doing the reset from the old backup made them messages come back.

Now my question is, are these iMessages saved somewhere on Apple servers or iCloud? I dont use iCloud feature on iphone. This is major privacy concern for me and is there any way to permanently delete these messages not just from iphone and never have such situation described above where the deleted imessages reappear.

Thanks

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1

Posted on Mar 14, 2012 6:33 PM

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BerryAngel

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Mar 14, 2012 7:01 PM in response to waheed382

old backups are to recover messages like text message, imessage.. when you choose a backup. it will recover all messages, inless you choose a new back up file or erase the old back up file... otherwise it will restore all the old messages,data,apps

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waheed382 Author

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Mar 14, 2012 7:08 PM in response to BerryAngel

thanks for reply.

what i meant is, say I backed up on Monday and restored iphone on friday. Now any messages i deleted since monday and friday reappear on iphone when i restore to backup i did on monday. This would mean all imessages are saved somewhere hence them appearing again.

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Mar 14, 2012 7:09 PM in response to waheed382

yes it would be you would have to delete the messages and create the back up again

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Mar 5, 2013 3:25 AM in response to BerryAngel

if i started typing son or any other words ....whole I Message chat history it shows

so please help me how to delete it?????
using iphone 4s

thnak you

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Mar 25, 2013 7:13 PM in response to waheed382

Here is the solution: http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/05/clear-imessage-chat-history-in-mac-os-x/

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Tzhouhc

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Aug 23, 2013 3:20 AM in response to misalaram

I've seen and had ths issue myself and took pains trying to delete the messages instead of just hiding them in Spotlight search. What I did:

1. Delete the unwanted thread in iMessage

2. Turn off iMessage in Settings

3. Sync and backup the device in iTunes

4. Restore the device from this backup.

It worked for me and the histories are no more. I only have a iPod Touch 5th Generation so I cannot guarantee the effect.

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MiuMiu11

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Jul 6, 2017 11:12 PM in response to waheed382

To Keep personal privacy out of danger, here you can try to use this method to permanently delete iMessages on your iPhone, just with few simple steps.

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