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How much space does text messages on an iPhone take up?

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Nine_Lives
Nine_Lives Posts: 3,031 Forumite
Just curious really. I don't think i've ever deleted a text message in the 3 years i've owned an iPhone. I only have about 1.5GB left of my 16GB.

Not as much as apps i'm sure, but just wondered all the same.

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  • DUTR
    DUTR Posts: 12,958 Forumite
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    They are quite small, I wish you had asked earlier (in the last 12 months) I know I transfered more than 8000 texts onto the SD card to free up some memory, hold on, I will try now
  • DUTR
    DUTR Posts: 12,958 Forumite
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    Just deleted about 1400msgs and the memory has increased by just over 2 mb
  • Nine_Lives
    Nine_Lives Posts: 3,031 Forumite
    So naff all basically then. Thanks.

    Out of interest, how do you transfer texts from an iPhone to an SD card?
  • DUTR
    DUTR Posts: 12,958 Forumite
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    Nine_Lives wrote: »
    So naff all basically then. Thanks.

    Out of interest, how do you transfer texts from an iPhone to an SD card?

    I don't know if you can without an additional app (and possibly jail break) my phone is an android xperia ray, just that your post remnded me to transfer the messages and delete them off the handset memory :cool:
    By the way, when I do this the handset seems to run faster.
  • There's numerous (paid-for) programs that will extract text messages from the iphone, both for PC and also some (SMS Export) from the App Store that run on the iPhone.

    Alternatively you can extract backed-up texts from your syncs:

    http://osxdaily.com/2010/07/08/read-iphone-sms-backup/

    It is a bit of a faff to view them though.

    Cleaning text messages from your iPhone won't save you any space or make your phone run faster though, unless you have hundreds of pictures in there (either iMessage or MMS).
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