How to Delete All Apple Messages

This updated guide examines How to Delete All Apple Messages and organizes the essential facts, background, and practical takeaways in clear American English.

Method 1of 2:

Deleting on your iPhone or iPad

1. 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.
2. TapMessages. You will have to scroll down on the menu screen to find it.
3. TapKeep Messages. It's located under "Message History."
4. Tap30 Days.
5. TapDelete. Doing so will delete all messages and message attachments that are older than 30 days.
   • This may not delete all of your messages.
6. Tap the Messages icon from your home screen.
7. TapEdit. It's located in the top left corner of the screen. Doing so will make round radio buttons appear next to each conversation.
8. Tap the radio button next to each conversation. Select all the conversations you wish to delete.
9. TapDelete. Doing so will delete all the selected conversations at once.

Method 2of 2:

Deleting on your Mac

1. Open the Messages app.
2. Click on the first chat thread. You will be deleting everything below the first chat thread you select.
3. Press and hold?Option+?Command.
4. PressDeleterepeatedly. Doing so will delete each conversation quickly, bypassing the confirmation pop-up.
5. Press?Command+?Shift+G. Doing so will bring up the "Go To Folder" window.
6. Type in "~/Library/Messages/. "
7. Move the Chat files to the trash. The chat files appear as "chat.db," "chat.db-shm," and "chat.db-wal."
8. 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/.