in settings, in usage, it says i have 2.7 gb of saved messages. and it also says i have 2.7 gb of documents and data on itunes so i'm assuming that's what it is. i don't remember saving any messages. how do i get rid of them? i need more space on my phone since i only have an 8gb iphone 4. SOMEBODY HELP ME, PLEASE.
iPhone 4, iOS 7
MMS and text messages continue and account for more data saved on the phone more than people realize. You may want to delete some text messages.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1641701
That should solve your issue
Sorry no, that ( Delete all from conversation and reboot) does nothing for me. Settings > General > Usage> Messages> Messages(Saved) remains 4.6 GB
Yup. I agree with you Peter. I deleted all my messages and converations and on usage in the settings, just says saved messages, but no actual option to delete those saved messages. Help.
I have been struggling with trying to figure this out for days. What I finally figured out is (at least this finally worked for me), make sure you back up to the computer and icloud. I went under icloud settings and turned off the documents and dats option and backed it up again. Once I made sure everything was backed up again, I did a restore from an icloud backup. This finally worked. Hope this helps!
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph12521
Firstly you DO NOT have to do a factory reset / wipe device, it is simply not required to get the space back!!
Mine had 3GB and I just got rid of it all, here is how:
Tadaa! Space recovered, your messages are still there but without the attachments!
P.S You may want to make two backups in case you get any of the above steps wrong, but it is simple to follow the above and not do anything wrong!
P.P.S You could also just go through every single conversation and delete the attachments one by one, but if you have hundreds or thousands of attachments, this will take a VERY LONG TIME!!!
This seems so very uncovenient. I guess it's a workaround and thank you. But do we, or should we, really have to go through all this trouble for this? If we deleted our texts, that should pretty much be the end of it. I have 4.5GB worth of Messages (Saved). Why?! That's such a waste of storage space. It's frustrating. Apple needs to get this under control.
**Or maybe this is actually how they want it. Let our devices be filled up with nonsense, so that we're forced to get devices with more memory. I see what you did there, Apple."
2.7 gb of saved messages... what??!
