How to Delete Messages on iPhone 7/7 Plus

With iOS 10 installed, iPhone 7 enables you to message various new effects to your friends and family, such as Bubble Effects and Screen Effects. And it also enables you to share edited pictures/videos, songs and apps by using iMessages. For sure, this September, the new iOS Messages app goes more popular than ever before.

But the more time you use this new Messages features on your iPhone 7, the more space these message conversations will take up. So there is no harm in knowing some methods to free up storage on iPhone 7 by deleting the useless messages. Below we list 3 methods for how to delete messages on an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus.

Part 1. Remove Multiple Messages on iPhone 7

Part 2. Delete Specific Messages of One Person

Part 3. Permanently Delete Messages on iPhone 7

How to Delete Multiple Messages on iPhone 7/7 Plus

iOS 10 allows you to delete several message conversations at once. You can tap Edit on the top left corner to delete your selected conversations after you running Messages app on your iPhone 7.

How to Delete Specific Messages of One Person

You can delete only a part of chatting history of some specific contact, just like the screenshot shows below. You should press and hold on the message and then tap "More" to delete it.

How to Permanently Delete Messages on iPhone 7

If you have ever used some iPhone data recovery tools, you may know that some deleted messages on iPhone can be recovered. To protect your privacy messages from leak when you plan to sell or give away your iPhone, you may want to permanently delete these unwanted messages.

In this case, you can use some professional iPhone cleaning tools to make it. Now PhoneClean provides you with the feature to scan whether there are some deleted messages on your iPhone 7. And it helps you completely remove deleted text messages and iMessages in a few clicks. Below we show you how to use PhoneClean to completely remove messages from your iPhone 7.

Step 1. Download the latest version of PhoneClean and install it on your computer.

Step 2. Run PhoneClean, choose "Privacy Clean" and click "Scan".

Step 3. Click "Sensitive Data" to view messages on your iPhone. Choose your unwanted messages and go back to the result page.

Step 4. Make sure you have selected the right items, and click "Clean" to completely remove them.

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The Bottom Line

Be sure to backup your iPhone 7 before massive messages deletion, because you may mistakenly delete something important like precious messages. But if you delete messages by accident, don’t worry, juts retrieve the lost messages by using this way. And welcome you to comment your issues or solutions on deleting SMS or iMessages on iPhone 7.