How to Bulk Delete iPhone Messages

Updated Nov 21,2018 | by Joy

No matter how much memory your latest iPhone XS/XS Max/ XR has, you will soon find your multiple messages will be expanded to take up lots of available memory on your device. Then you may want to bulk delete iPhone messages to free up more storage space for your iPhone/iPad. Now keep reading. The article shows two parts to let you know how to bulk delete iPhone messages.

Do you usually send text messages to a close friend or relative? Want to bulk delete these old messages sent between you and that person? In such way, you can clean up your iPhone for more space and then you are able to free download more apps to iPhone, download YouTube to iPhone by using Shortcuts, or download anything you like to your device.  Follow the guide to bulk delete iPhone messages from an individual.

Step 1. Open Messages app on your iPhone and choose one conversation you’d like to bulk delete messages from one person.

Step 2. Find the specific message you want to remove and then tap and hold on the speech bubble until some option buttons appear at the bottom of your screen. Tap on “More”.

Step 3.  After that, you can select other messages you want to delete. Tap on the trashcan icon in the bottom left corner to confirm the deletion and then click “Delete X Messages” at the bottom of the screen.

Actually, you may send messages to more than one person in your daily life. Here let’s see how to bulk delete iPhone messages sent by many friends.

Step 1. As in the previous step 1, launch Messages app on your iOS device. Tap on “Edit” at the top left corner of the screen.

Step 2. Choose the messages you want to remove and then click “Delete” button in the bottom right corner. 

Now, you’ve successfully bulk deleted iPhone messages. You can choose the right way to finish the deletion based on your needs. If you want to free up more space for your iPhone, you can use IOTransfer to bulk delete other files with ease. Here, we will give a brief introduction of IOTransfer before the steps.

IOTransfer is an easy iPhone manager, which enables you to complete the deletion and cleaning of different apps in one tool. It’s also a user-friendly video downloader and converter. Besides, if you want to create GIFs without watermark, you can use IOTransfer to make it.

Step  1. Free download IOTransfer and install it to your Windows 7/8/8.1/10. Then connect your iPhone to computer with a USB. Note that IOTransfer works in iOS 8 or later. If you’ve updated to iOS 12, you can also use it to complete the deletion.

Step 2. Launch IOTransfer . Go  to “MANAGE” at the top menu and choose files you want to remove at the left, such as Photos, Music, Videos, Books, etc. Here I take “Music” as an example.

Step 3. Choose the music you’d like to remove and click “Delete” to confirm the deletion. After that, you can easily bulk delete other iPhone files in the same way.

Bottom Line:

In this article, you can easily bulk delete iPhone messages to free up more space for iOS devices. Also, you can use IOTransfer to bulk delete all data on iPhone like photos, apps, music, videos, etc. so that you can save other interesting games, videos, and much more to your iPhone.

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