There's only one thing standing between me and a tonne of free space on my iPhone: my entire iMessage history. But, try as I might, I cannot bring myself to delete a single message. I'm an iMessage sentimentalist and it's becoming a problem.
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I've been receiving warning messages for months. "Storage Almost Full," my passive aggressive iPhone would say. Last week I came face to face with my very painful fate: my iPhone had finally run out of storage and I didn't know what to do about it
I tried deleting photos, videos, and apps I no longer used. Nothing made a dent on the storage situation. Exasperated and desperate, a colleague proffered some advice:"You need to change your iMessage history settings," she said. I went into my phone and scrolled through my Message settings. "Keep messages: Forever," read my current status.
Changing your iMessage history settings means that any messages preceding the 30 day, or one year, limit will be deleted from your phone. Read more...
via Zero Tech Blog
