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Wednesday, December 21st, 2022 12:05 AM

Deleting all texts

​Got a new phone and when ported over it downloaded all texts, mostly garbage from other phone did not even know were there.  How can i delete all without one at a time as there are about 300.  Thanks​

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ReyF

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3 months ago

Texts are optionally backed up by iCLoud (if iPhone) or Google/Samsung depending on configuration of your old device. When you signed into the new one, you were given the option to restore all or select what you want restored, by default ALL includes text messages. 

Depending on how valuable your time is, you may want to reset the new device and restore accordingly minus the texts. 

I hope this helps.

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@ReyF​ thanks just deleted one at at time…did not want to reset phone.

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XfinityKyla

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387 Messages

3 months ago

What kind of phone is it?

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3 months ago

A samsung a53 5G Thanks

XfinityAaron

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I am not seeing a way to mass delete all of them. I know with iPhone, you can select them one by one then hit delete, versus deleting each one by one. This may be an option on that phone to do the same. 

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Thanks just ended up going thru and deleting all one at a time, did not want to reset phone.

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