How To Automatically Delete Old Text Messages on Galaxy Z Flip 4
Once your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 has 1000 text messages and 100 MMS messages stored it won’t be able to receive any new messages. You need to make sure to delete old messages in order to make room for new messages. The best way to do this is to turn on the automatic deletion of messages on your Samsung messages app.
The Samsung Galaxy Z flip 4 is one of the latest Android smartphone models available in the market that uses a foldable display form factor. It’s the perfect device for people who want a powerful full-sized phone that can also fit in their pocket. Some of its best features include a Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 chip and a battery capacity of 3700 mAh.
Turning on auto delete old text messages of Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4
Wondering why you are not getting any new text messages or MMS on your Samsung phone? There’s a chance that the device has already reached the maximum allowable number of messages to be stored.
To prevent this issue from happening again on your Samsung Galaxy phone you should turn on the auto delete old messages feature of the device.
Take note that the automatic deletion of old text messages and multimedia messages is only performed on the default Samsung Messages app. This will not work if you are using a third-party messaging app.
Enable Auto-Delete Old Messages on Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4
Here’s what you should do to turn on the automatic deletion of old messages in your phone.
Open the Settings app.
Scroll to find then tap Apps.
Find Messages and then tap it.
Tap Messages settings.
Tap More settings.
Tap to turn the Delete old messages switch ON.
Your phone will now delete old and unwanted messages automatically to make room for new messages.
Retrieve deleted text messages
Important text messages that have been deleted can still be recovered as it will stay in the trash for 30 days. In case the text messages have already been removed from trash then you can try to recover the deleted messages from Samsung Cloud or Google Drive.
Manually delete old messages
You can manually delete text messages from the messaging app by following these steps.
From a Home screen, swipe up to access the apps screen.
Tap Messages.
From the Inbox, tap the Menu icon Menu icon (upper-right) then tap Delete.
Select the message(s).
Tap Delete (all).
To confirm, tap Move to Trash.
Delete messages in trash
You can permanently delete the text messages from your Samsung phone by deleting them from trash.
From a Home screen, swipe up to access the apps screen.
Tap Messages.
Tap the Menu icon Menu icon (upper-right).
Tap Trash.
Touch and hold the desired message to delete.
To select all, tap All (upper left).
Tap Delete all (bottom-right).
Tap Delete to confirm.