Level 1

61 points

How do I delete saved text messages that are taking up storage on my iphone?

When I go to settings>General>usuage> I see that I have 3.2GB of messages stored. Can someone tell me how to delete those messages? I don't even know where all of these messages could be stored. I don't think I am storing them in icloud.

I always delete my messages because I don't like having so many message things open, so those messages are not directly on my phone.
As you can see it's taking up way too much of my storage.
I have no need to save any text messages. If anything were that important to me I could take a screen shot of it and email it to myself or something.

Please someone help me because I have searched everywhere and asked everyone I can think of and no one has any idea how to help me..

Thanks in advance.

iPhone 5, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 24, 2013 11:07 PM

105 replies

Jan 1, 2014 10:25 AM in response to Willypr

How did you erase the messages in storage? I can't find them anywhere.

Dgioe629

Level 1

9 points

Apr 16, 2014 8:55 AM in response to Nickc25

I can't believe method 1 actually worked. It took me a while because then I didn't have enough storage to restore my phone but once I made storage available it worked like a charm. Thank you!!

Kurty999

Level 1

5 points

Jan 5, 2014 6:47 AM in response to angoli

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5345138?start=90&tstart=0

Click on this and read the forum

Jan 7, 2014 10:18 AM in response to angoli

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4137?viewlocale=en_US

The above is all you need to do.

Oct 24, 2013 7:20 AM in response to Nickc25

Just tried this on my IPad and it did not work 😟

ETA: Just tried it again... did the exact same thing than the 1st time and it worked.

Thank you 🙂

I only have 16GB IPad and every little help

Oct 24, 2013 7:14 AM in response to angoli

I also tried on my iPhone 5 and it did not work either...

Oct 24, 2013 7:21 AM in response to Elisa2657

Elisa, I just tried it again, and it worked 😉

Oct 24, 2013 7:27 AM in response to Community User

Great ! Which one of the 2 methods did you use ?

Oct 24, 2013 7:33 AM in response to Elisa2657

The first one 🙂

Oct 24, 2013 7:34 AM in response to Community User

Ok, then i will try again tonight ! Thanks :-)

iSaman

Level 1

7 points

Nov 23, 2013 2:01 PM in response to Nickc25

THANNKK YOOUUu

Jan 3, 2014 8:03 PM in response to angoli

By trying any of these methods, do you actually get storage space back?

illogik

Level 1

0 points

Jan 6, 2014 11:21 PM in response to Kurty999

I can confirm Kurty's way does work and also seems like less hassle not having to restore or dl any third party software of any sort. Thanks a lot!

Jan 10, 2014 11:28 PM in response to Nickc25

Brilliant... option 1 is a great fix. thank you so much!! 3+ GB gained back. You rock.

jainlv

Level 1

0 points

Feb 8, 2014 12:13 PM in response to Nickc25

I used @Nick25's suggestions and it worked fine. I used the free version of iBackupBot for Windows. http://www.icopybot.com/itunes-backup-manager.htm

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How do I delete saved text messages that are taking up storage on my iphone?