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How do you permanently delete iPhone messages?
The safest, easiest, and fastest way of getting rid of messages from your iPhone is to simply delete entire conversations with a given contact. Just go to the conversation you want to delete, swipe to the left, and then tap on the red button which says “Delete.”
Do iMessages get deleted after a while?
By default, the iPhone keeps all messages forever (or until you manually delete them). If you prefer, tap “30 Days” or ‘1 Year.” If you do, the iPhone will automatically discard your messages after the selected time period.
How do I make sure my text messages are permanently deleted?
Unfortunately, Android Messages doesn’t allow for multiple messages to be deleted this way at once. Instead, you’ll need to long-press one message, then tap the other messages and hit the trash can icon.
What happened to my iMessages?
Typically when your messages disappear it means your storage is full. Check Settings > General > iPhone Storage and never allow the free space to fall below 10% of the iPhone’s total storage space. You may recover messages that were present when the last iPhone backup occurred by restoring that backup.
Are iMessages kept forever?
Most cell phone carriers don’t permanently save the enormous amount of text-message data that is sent between users every day. AT Wireless, for example, says it keeps sent text messages for 48 hours only—after that, they are wiped off the system.
Is there a way to permanently delete an iMessage?
This is major privacy concern for me and is there any way to permanently delete these messages not just from iphone and never have such situation described above where the deleted imessages reappear.
Is there a way to keep iMessages after one year?
Another location to check is Settings > Messages > Keep Messages (under “Message History”). Depending on this setting, 30 days or the 1 year selection, messages older than the specified time will automatically be removed after that time. You can keep messages forever by changing this selection to keep messages “Forever”.
Why are my messages being deleted from my iPhone?
If you need help restarting your iPhone, use this help article: Restart your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch . Another location to check is Settings > Messages > Keep Messages (under “Message History”). Depending on this setting, 30 days or the 1 year selection, messages older than the specified time will automatically be removed after that time.
What happens to text messages when you delete them?
When you delete a text message, instead of completely obliterating the text message from the database, that entry is just marked as “deleted”. Some time in the future, as you send and receive new texts, the space for the deleted entries will be reused and overwritten with new information.