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HOW TO DELETE PHOTOS, LINKS, AND ATTACHMENTS FROM CONVERSATIONS IN MESSAGES

Even as iPhones and iPads have dramatically increased internal storage, you can still fill them with music, photos, and videos—and attachments sent along with messages. Apple lets you delete these attachments, although it’s a bit of a convoluted process. Remarkably, these deletions don’t sync across your devices with Messages enabled in Cloud—even though the messages themselves do sync.

Here’s how to manage attachments in Messages.

Delete attachments in iOS and iPadOS

Hold on, as there are a number of steps involved to get to the right view:

1. Launch Messages.

2. Find the conversation from which you want to delete attachments and tap it.

3. Tap the avatar of the person at the top of the Messages window.

4. From the set of icons that fade in to appear below the avatar, tap the Info (i) icon.

5. Swipe up until you see attachments at the bottom of the Details sheet. These are divided into Photos, Links, and Attachments.

Now you have a couple of options:

Hold down on any item and a