Delete Messages And Conversations In Messages On Mac

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Messages User Guide

• Welcome
• What’s new
• Set up Messages
  • Set up Messages on Mac
  • Get SMS, MMS, and RCS texts from iPhone
  • Share your name and photo
• Send messages
  • Send messages
  • Messages for Business
  • Collaborate using Messages
  • Send later
  • Unsend or edit a message
  • Forward a message or attachment
  • Send an inline reply
  • Mention a person
  • React with Tapbacks
  • Turn read receipts on or off
  • Send stickers
  • Send and save GIFs
  • Send photos and videos
  • Send an audio message
  • Add full-screen and bubble effects
  • Format and animate text
  • Share your location
  • Make calls
• View content shared with you
  • Keep track of your shared content
  • View photos, videos, and audio
  • View animation
  • View a Check In notification
  • Request or view someone’s location
  • Translate text in a conversation
  • Watch, listen, or play together using SharePlay
  • Share screens
• Keep track of your conversations
  • Search for a conversation
  • Pin a conversation
  • Poll people in a conversation
  • Catch up on messages you missed
  • Mark a conversation as unread
  • Manage a group conversation
  • Delete messages and conversations
  • Recover deleted messages
  • Create a reminder from a conversation
  • Respond to Screen Time requests for more time
  • Print or create a PDF of a conversation
• Customize Messages
  • Change settings
  • Add backgrounds
  • Create your Memoji
  • Screen, filter, report, and block texts
  • Create and manage contacts
  • Manage notifications
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Copyright and trademarks

In the Messages app, you can delete messages, attachments, and entire conversations anytime, without affecting what your recipients see.

Tip: Use Undo Send to retract (within 2 minutes) a message you sent accidentally, deleting it from both your iPhone and your recipient’s iPhone.

Deleted messages and attachments remain in your Recently Deleted folder for up to 30 days, and you can recover them.

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Delete messages and attachments

1. Go to the Messages app on your Mac.

2. Select a conversation.

3. Select one or more messages (including text messages, photos, videos, files, web links, audio messages, or emoji) in the transcript, press Delete, then click Delete in the dialog.

Note: When you delete a message, it’s moved to the Recently Deleted folder on your device, but not anyone else’s. When you want to delete a message for everyone,