Can't delete any of my texts messages!
If I go into Settings > General > Usage, it tells me that Messages is taking up 10.1gb of space; that is insane! I have never bothered to delete any of my texts; but then again I never though they would take up such a huge amount of space.
If I go into messages and try and delete texts from someone, it will vanish. But then my phone will get really slow, then ALL my messages will appear to have gone, then my phone will restart, and all the texts are back again, including the ones I just deleted. It seems to be that my phone can't handle deleting so much at one time; this is really frustrating.
Iv'e tried deleteing indiviual chats rather than deleting loads of chats all at once, but it still restarts and brings them all back. I've also tried having my phone connected with itunes so I can sync as soon as I delete them, but that doesn't work either..
I googled my problem and so far the only way to fix this issue is download 3rd party software that allows you to open up your phone's back-up and manually find all the texts files and delete them on the PC, then restore the phone to this 'edited' back-up. But this just seems stupid, deleteing texts shouldn't be an issue at all..
Has anyone had this problem before?
Cheers
iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.4, 32gb