Clearing and Deleting Text Messages

When you start receiving text messages, your iPhone sorts them by phone number so that you can read all text messages received from each cell phone number. However, the more text messages you receive, the more cluttered your collection of text messages will get. To reduce the number of text messages stored on your iPhone, you can clear all text messages sent from a phone number or delete an entire collection of text messages from a phone number.

Clearing Text Messages

Once you start sending messages, you'll wind up with long lists of old messages from specific people. You can choose to clear out all your stored messages or just select the messages that you want to delete.

To clear one or more messages from a particular ...

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