How to Delete All Apple Messages
While there is no way to delete all of your Apple Messages conversations at once, there are a couple of work-arounds to try to save time and storage space. You can delete messages quickly using a hot key combination on your Mac and...
Method 1 of 2:
Deleting on your iPhone or iPad
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Tap the Settings icon. You can delete a lot of old messages at once by changing your Message History settings, then deleting your current conversations. -
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Tap Messages. You will have to scroll down on the menu screen to find it. -
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Tap Keep Messages. It's located under "Message History." -
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Tap 30 Days. -
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Tap Delete. Doing so will delete all messages and message attachments that are older than 30 days.- This may not delete all of your messages.
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Tap the Messages icon from your home screen. -
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Tap Edit. It's located in the top left corner of the screen. Doing so will make round radio buttons appear next to each conversation. -
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Tap the radio button next to each conversation. Select all the conversations you wish to delete. -
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Tap Delete. Doing so will delete all the selected conversations at once.
Method 2 of 2:
Deleting on your Mac
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Open the Messages app. -
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Click on the first chat thread. You will be deleting everything below the first chat thread you select. -
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Press and hold ⌥ Option + ⌘ Command. -
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Press Delete repeatedly. Doing so will delete each conversation quickly, bypassing the confirmation pop-up. -
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Press ⌘ Command+⇧ Shift+G. Doing so will bring up the "Go To Folder" window. -
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Type in "~/Library/Messages/." -
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Move the Chat files to the trash. The chat files appear as "chat.db," "chat.db-shm," and "chat.db-wal." -
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Re-launch the Messages app. Your chat history will be empty.- Deleting the chat files does not delete attachments. To remove attachments, follow the same steps, but substitute ~/Library/Messages/' for ~/Library/Messages/Attachments/.
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