My iphone 4 says I have 3.7 GB used up by saved messages. How can I delete "saved" messages off my phone???
My iphone 4 says I hav 3.7 GB used up by saved messages. How can I delete "saved" messages?
iPhone 4
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Hi there, What you have to do is:
1. open your messages
2. click on the "edit" button on top left
3. delete conversations that you think would take up the lasrgest space on your phone
4. restart your iphone
5. should reduce memory now 🙂
Thanks but after reading a few comments, I found out my old messages are stored under "Spotlight Search". Do you know how to open the multi-tasking bar and close out all running apps?
Yes but even after deleting ALL the messages I could find, it still says I have 3.7 GB in "saved" messages, which I never did save. Apparently the phone saves them under "spotlight search?"
Did you shut down your phone? Shut it down COMPLETELY and then wiat a minute. Then turn it back on
After much searching on the web and reading many (sometimes amusing) posts on this topic here is what I have found.
In Settings>General>Usage my saved mesages were using 3.2Gb and no apparently immediate way of deleting them.
However as the good book says "seek and ye shall find".
SO this is where I went:
Settings>iCloud>Account> then scroll down to ADVANCED and select Mail; again scroll down to the bottom and select Advanced and yet again scroll to the bottom (well at least to DELETED MESSAGES) and tap on the line called Remove.
Here at last you will find a setting that enables you to select the period after which iOS will remove your deleted messages.
The shortest period is one day so you will haev to wait 24 hours to finally have that memory back but it should work and is a nice feature in iOS although it is well burried!!
My iphone 4 says I have 3.7 GB used up by saved messages. How can I delete "saved" messages off my phone???