Delete old text messages You'll be surprised to see how much storage space your text messages take on your smartphone. You may not even realize those messages are being saved to your phone. Don't worry, you can delete them. Be sure to delete messages with photos and videos first — they chew up the most space.
Improves the speed of your phone
With the passage of time, these tiny messages start taking up space in your smartphone's memory, which results in slow processing. By deleting your text messages regularly, you can free up space and practically make your phone work faster.
And don't forget your text messages–All those shared photos, videos, and GIFs can take up space. iPhone users can clear out big text attachments on the iPhone Storage screen. Another tip: Change your settings to save your text messages for a year or 30 days instead of forever.
What's likely stealing all the storage space are all the attachments you send and receive — audio, photos, stickers, videos, GIFs, and files. With Messages on iCloud, Apple stores your entire messaging history on its servers.
Deleting Messages does not free up storage
Look for the Messages containing attachments. Delete entire message discussions. If you could delete the Messages app it would clear the lot but you cannot.
How Much Is One Gigabyte Of Data? Text files: Nearly 678,000 pages per gigabyte. Emails: More than 100,000 pages. Microsoft Word files: Almost 65,000 pages.
Emails can take up tons of space on your Android operating system. If you keep thousands — or even hundreds — of emails around, then it's time that you clear a significant amount of space by deleting these emails in Gmail.
Some phone companies also keep records of sent text messages. They sit on the company's server for anywhere from three days to three months, depending on the company's policy. Verizon holds texts for up to five days and Virgin Mobile keeps them for 90 days.
It's easier to keep secrets.
But automatically clearing your texting history every 30 days can help you avoid getting in trouble if your phone slips into the wrong hands.
But that doesn't mean text messages, over time, can't affect your phone's performance. According to Mac World, iPhones run out of storage space fairly quickly. Deleting all or most of your messages is a surefire way to boost storage space at least a bit.
To give some perspective, 100 MB of data will be enough to: Send and receive 100 text emails, including attachments. Browsing the web for approx. four hours, without downloading pictures and videos.
Texting is not data intensive; streaming very much is. (Note: When using Wi-Fi, always check that your phone stays connected to the signal.
Texting from a mobile phone is part of a cellular call system's Short Message Service (SMS). Sending a text doesn't use data allowance, but unless SMS is included in a monthly plan, there may be a small fee for each text.
1GB (or 1000MB) is about the minimum data allowance you're likely to want, as with that you could browse the web and check email for up to around 40 minutes per day. That's still not much, but should be fine for lighter users.
1 Delete a Message
Open Messages. Locate the conversation that has the message you want to delete then tap on it. Touch and hold the message you want to delete. Tap the trash can to delete the message.
When your phone storage is full, it basically means your device is clogged with large files — videos, photos, apps and the like. The culprit could also be memory-hogging junk files… yes, on your smartphone.
No. The storage space that the calling list occupies is so small that it is negligible. Note that most amount of storage space is occupied by media data/files.