My Apple devices have over 55,000 elements in the news app. This includes texts, language notes, photos, videos, gifs and other attachments that are sent and received on several devices. Over time, messages threatened to be the second largest occupier of my precious storage space. Fortunately, I took measures at the right time to get rid of the intersection that I don’t need. I said to myself that I don’t have to be an archivist of the iMessage and I can start to let go of some messages to free some space. So you can get rid of unnecessary items from iMessage to release space on your iPhone, iPad, Mac and iCloud.
So you can quickly free the storage space for the iMessage space on your iPhone or iPad
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To check how much storage space IMESSAGE occupies on your iPhone, go to Settings> General> iPhone storage> News. If you have not been eliminated unnecessary attachments for a long time, you could stare more than 50 GB of iMessage attachments.
If you are ready to delete entire chats, you can tap Top talks and hit the Edit Button in the upper right corner. Select all the chats you want to delete and click on the Garbage Symbol in the upper right corner of the side. This is the fastest way to release a lot of space, but it tends to deal with your iMessage groups chat chats. You may have to invite yourself to these groups again if you use this method.
For a more focused approach to delete iMessage attachments, go again Settings> General> iPhone storage> News. Here you can check any kind of attachment – photos, videos, gifs and stickers and others. Tap one of these categories and hit them Edit Button in the upper right corner. Then select all attachments you do not need and press the Garbage Icon in the upper right corner to free space.
So you prevent iMessage from filling up space on your iPhone
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If you don’t be careful, you will only accumulate more garbage in impression in the end. So we take some preventive measures. They go to your iPhone Settings> Apps> Newsand tap in the course of the message Keep messages. You can change this from Forever To 30 days or 1 year. This automatically deleted all iMessage texts and attachments that are older than the time you have selected. Likewise under Audio messages Tap on the same side Go out and select After 2 minutes Automatically delete unwanted language notes.
Return to the message settings and scroll down. You can activate here Low -quality image mode To reduce the size of the images that you send and maintain on iMessage. This makes photos look a little blurry and sometimes makes it difficult to see the text in screenshots, but if you are really injured for the storage space, this helps.
You can also prevent your SMS messages from being automatically forwarded to your other Apple devices. To do this, go to Settings> Apps> Messages, SMS forwarding And deactivate it for all devices on which you don’t have to see this messages. Note that this will not prevent iMessage chats from being displayed on these devices.
Bulk delete large iMessage attachments on your Mac
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As on your phone, you can quickly release the storage space on your Mac by deleting large attachments from the news app. You go to your Mac System settings> General> Space and click on the I Button next to News. This shows all the big attachments that hide in your news app. If you go to every chat manually, these attachments are difficult to track down. Instead, click on any attachment here, press Commands To select everyone and press them Delete Button to get rid of them.
How to reduce the effects of iMessage on your iCloud storage space
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The iCloud room is also an important part of this conversation. If you find out Settings> (your name)> iCloud and tap News. Deactivate now Use this iPhone. This removes your text messages from your iCloud backups and space free. However, it will also stop synchronizing SMS messages on Apple devices. Be sure to. This option is under System settings> (your name)> iCloud> News.
For a more piece -free approach on your iPhone or iPad, go to Settings> (your name)> iCloud> Messages> Manage memory. Knock Top talks And remove the chats you don’t want to on iCloud. You can still return to the previous page and tap Switch off and delete from iCloud Remove messages from iCloud.
