You may go through and clear out old conversations periodically, but you can actually take advantage of a setting on the iPhone that will take care of this for you. Our tutorial below will show you where to find a setting that will let you choose to delete old messages after thirty days or a year so that you no longer need to manage them manually.
How to Choose How Long to Wait Before Deleting iPhone Text Messages
The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10.3.3. Note that if you are lowering the amount of time that your iPhone waits before deleting text messages, then completing these actions will cause you to lose any text messages that are older than the specified time. Be sure to save any picture messages or information that you need before you choose to delete those older messages. Step 1: Open the Settings app.
Step 2: Select the Messages option.
Step 3: Scroll down and touch the Keep Messages button.
Step 4: Choose the amount of time for which text messages should be kept.
Step 5: Tap the Delete button to delete any messages that are older than the amount of time you selected.
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