iMessage size?

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iMessage size?

So got a question about the size of iMessages...I'm not in a bind for real estate, but I do watch my storage and trim where available. I was looking in setting>general>usage, and under the storage it shows my iMessage at 1.8GB! (Saved). I deleted my messages down to almost nothing ensuring I had no photons or large times in any messages and the size didn't change. What's up with that? Is this just the size of the app?

At the same time, my iPad only shows 6.4MB (saved) and I probably have more messages going on on my iPad right now than I do the phone.

Is there anything that can be done to reduce that file size on the phone! What's making it so large? Thanks for the help.

Posted on Jan 13, 2014 4:18 PM

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galaxy7 Author

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Jan 24, 2014 8:38 PM in response to galaxy7

OK, so after a bit more digging it seems this large file size may be my own doing. I have a message chain with one person that's extremely long; I loaded message traffic all the way back to Jan '13 before I stopped. So now I'm guessing the file size is legit because there's a ton of pics and everything else in this chain.

However, I need to keep this message chain for historical value. Any way to save this message chain for future reference but get it off my phone for now so it's not taking up all that space?

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ChrisJ4203

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Jan 24, 2014 9:21 PM in response to galaxy7

You can look into 3rd party software. Touchcopy is a good program that you put on the computer and it can download your messages and archive them on the computer. I've used it for a number of things. Messages are not the only thing it can copy, it does voicemail as well.

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galaxy7 Author

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Jan 16, 2014 3:25 PM in response to galaxy7

No one?

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