IOS 8 - Deleted Text Messages

Yes, I'm having the same issue. Deleting a message within a thread does not delete the date/time stamp of the message only the text. So the date/time stamp of the message thread does not reflect the last message.

II'm having the same problem. Really hoping it's just a bug...

Same problem..and its a big problem because its obvious to anyone looking at the phone that you deleted a text..big privacy/discretionary issue for me. I hope Apple will promptly fix

Yes I am in the same boat. Anybody know if they will fixed it?

I also have the same problem. As several others write here, it's a privacy problem as and an annoyance because the thread keeps staying where the last datestamp was (even if that text is deleted), not at the datestamp of the last existing text in the message.

Please get this fixed soon.

I have also just started noticing this. Huge privacy issue. Needs to be fixed stat!! Makes it obvious that a message was deleted...

Yet another thread I've found on the same issue that Apple has yet to address.

Close the text app (Messages) from the task manager. When you re-open it, the trash can should be back. It should not be necessary to reboot the device. (Press and hold text message, select More to flag texts for deletion. After you've selected one, you can use the radio buttons to select others in the same thread.). To delete all texts in a thread, just swipe the recipent(s) on the previous, index, screen. I don't know what causes the trash can to disappear in iOS 8.x.x.

I am only wanting to delete selected messages within the message but the trash can disappears until I reboot the phone. I don't want to delete the actual person the text is from. Any ideas? It is a real problem in IOS8 never had this problem with IOS7.

I think I already answered this in the message to which you replied but I'll try again:

0. I don't know how to prevent the trash can from disappearing from time to time. To restore it:

1. Go to the home screen

2. Double tap the butron in the bottom of your phone to open the task manager.

3. Find the Messages wjndow and icon. Scroll the task manager sideways if necessary. Tap and hold the Messages window in the task manager and slide upwards toward the top of the screen to close it.

4. Tap the first window in the task manager to return to the home screen.

5 Tap the messages app to re-open it.

6. Tap the thread from which you want to selectively delete individual texts.

7. Press and hold one of the texts you want to delete. A dialogue will ask "Copy More"; select More.

8. The text you selected should be flagged for deletion and the trash can should now be restored to the bottom of your screen.

9. Tap the radio buttons in front of any other texts in the thread you want to delete, if any

10. Tap the trash can to delete the selected messages.

Notes:

* This doesn't fix the problem. Apple has to do that with an upgrade. But it does restore functionality with out having to reboot your phone.

* I only lose the trash can occasionally, maybe once a week or a little more often

* Only steps 2-4 above are additions to what one would normally do to selectively delete texts in a given thread.

* To delete a whole thread (a group of texts between you and one or more other people) from the list screen, just swipe to the left and tap Delete or tap Edit, radio button(s), Delete.

Tried all of those suggestions, works for a little while then the trash can goes away until I reboot the phone again. Guess Apple will need to do an update to fix the problem.

Your absolutely correct RLiranzo. I can't believe they haven't fixed this yet. How lame!! Now I wish I would have

never done the update. I just did it 2 days ago. Can't they ever get it right?

Seems like every time there is an upgrade to a new OS there are problems which takes a huge amount of time to figure out how to fix. Very disappointing.

I did chat with Apple and the one solution was to reset my settings on my phone, did that to no avail. If that does not work then they said to do a complete restore which means additional time and trouble.

Does anyone know a fix for this issue? Can someone from apple chime in let us know? How can we delete certain messages in a conversation and NOT have the last date and time stamped at the top of the messages?