Apple’s Messages app for iOS is capable of not only sending and receiving texts in the form of iMessages or SMS, but it can also send and receive files, which are known as attachments.
Over time, attachments add up, taking up valuable storage space on your device and keeping a paper trail of everything you’ve sent and received to one another.
In this article, let us discuss about how to bulk delete attachments from a conversation in the Messages app without deleting the entire conversation.
- Launch the Messages app and open a conversation that has attachments you want to get rid of.
- Tap on the blue “Details” button at the top right of the app.
- In the new interface that appears, scroll down and then tap and hold on one of the attachments in the grid view to reveal an Action Menu.
- Tap on the More button to select the attachment you were just tapping and holding on.
- A blue check mark will appear, and so will several empty circles on the rest of the attachments; tap on each of the attachments you wish to delete to select them and this will put a blue check mark on those attachments as well.
- Once all of the attachments you want to delete have been selected, tap on the blue trash can icon at the bottom right of the app.
- In the pop-up menu that appears, tap on the red Delete, Attachments button to confirm deletion of your selected attachments from your conversation.
- All those attachments will now be removed from the conversation, but your conversation itself will remain; double-check the conversation to verify.
Actively removing unwanted attachments from conversations in the Messages app is a great way to free up storage space and protect your privacy, so if you don’t already do this, you may consider practicing this method more often to reap the benefits.
