how to I delete a text I wish I never sent and images that were appropriate just wanr them erased from this persons phone

penny216 wrote:

My Dr. has an app that the reciepient doesn't have to have to delete after the text is read. She sends me texts then after I read them they go away. Sometimes I don't read it all because I don't have time but it's gone as soon as I go out of it.

There has to be something out there. I know on my email from Comcast it ask do I want to delete email after read and how long to keep it on there. So if you can do that with an email you surely can do that with a text.

The answer to the original question remains the same. Once you send a text, it's no longer yours to recall or delete. Comcast can't delete emails you've already sent to someone, either.

There are apps like Snapchat and others that send messages that expire and delete themselves. However, they require that both the sender and the recipient be using the same application. It's simply not an option for text messages.

Just as your mother always told you "Think before you speak!", you should think before you text (or email).

penny216 wrote:

I sent someone the wrong test for one and I about died then i just want control over what I send. I'm like you I send to one person but this person copies and sends all over the town. MY words. They are not bad but it's none of anyone elses business what I'm doing or saying.

The minute you hit “send” they are no longer just your words. If the recipient wishes to share any correspondence they get, from anyone, that is their choice to do so.

Anything that lands in your email inbox, your messaging app inbox, you postal mail box or your voicemail inbox is now yours to do with as you please. You don’t get to control what other people say about or do with the correspondence you send them. Once you send it, it’s fate is utterly out of your control.

Perhaps you need to post in your native language, you don't seem to be following this thread very well. You can erase a sent text from YOUR iPhone but you cannot send a code to delete one you've sent that has already been received on another device. And if you use a cell provider like MetroPCS that saves SMS text messages you cannot delete it from their server either.

If you download Snapchat and install it, and have your "friend" download and install it you can have it deleted from their device after they read it.

penny216 wrote:

Where is ERASE SENT TEXTS on the phone?

To erase an entire conversation with a person, start at the main conversation window. Tap "Edit" in the upper left corner of the screen. Select the conversation you want to delete by tapping the little circle to the left of the conversation. Tap "Delete" in the lower right corner.

Note: this only deletes the messages on your phone. It has no effect on the copies of the messages on the recipient's phone.

My Dr. has an app that the reciepient doesn't have to have to delete after the text is read. She sends me texts then after I read them they go away. Sometimes I don't read it all because I don't have time but it's gone as soon as I go out of it.

There has to be something out there. I know on my email from Comcast it ask do I want to delete email after read and how long to keep it on there. So if you can do that with an email you surely can do that with a text.

It's not getting on their phone and it's only what you have sent and I cannot see anyone elses. I would like to delete all texts sent from my phone not anyone elses. I don't want access to their phone just to what I send and I don't think there would even be an app that would do that.

penny216 wrote:

The app your lawyer recommended,

His lawyer did not recommend an app. His lawyer gave him the same advice I just gave you, only with a snappier mnemonic: WALL: wait a little longer.

I sent someone the wrong test for one and I about died then i just want control over what I send. I'm like you I send to one person but this person copies and sends all over the town. MY words. They are not bad but it's none of anyone elses business what I'm doing or saying.

penny216 wrote:

I sent someone the wrong test for one and I about died then i just want control over what I send. I'm like you I send to one person but this person copies and sends all over the town. MY words. They are not bad but it's none of anyone elses business what I'm doing or saying.

The only way to keep a secret is to not tell anyone. At all. Once you tell someone else, it's not a secret anymore. If you have a friend who doesn't respect your wishes not to pass on your texts to other people. stop texting then. Problem solved.

KiltedTim wrote:

The only "control" you have over messages you have is self control.

On, Tim, that's so twentieth century. People today seem to have a different view: Technology should stop us from texting while driving. Technology should shut down our children's phones at night so we don't have to confront them. Technology should absolve us of responsibility for our words.

Csound1 can you tell me the name of it?

Name of what?

The app your lawyer recommended,

What app?

The only "control" you have over messages you have is self control.

If you don't trust someone to repeat what you said or forward what you send them, then don't send it to them in the first place.