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Feb 21, 2025 • Filed to: Data Wipe Solutions • Proven solutions
Why Need to Delete Text Messages on Android Phone?
Want to give away your old Android phone for a new one? Decide to give the old Android phone to other persons, donate it to charity, or sell it? Whatever the situation is, one thing you must pay attention to is that the SMS on your old Android phone may reveal your personal crucial information. To avoid that, you need to delete text messages from an Android phone. Even if you don't mind someone stealing your private information from SMS, you may also need to remove text messages to free up space, especially when the message box reaches its storage capacity.
You must know that you can remove text messages from your Android phone manually. On your Android phone, tap the Messaging app to enter the message screen. Tap a thread and tap the button next to the home button to show the message management menu. Tap Delete messages. Then, tick the pieces of messages you're going to remove. If you want to delete all, tick Select all. Then, tap Delete.
Pros: Completely free. You can do it yourself.Cons: Time-consuming. Not available to delete hundreds or thousands of threads at a time.
Have thousand of SMS threads on your Android phone. To delete them quickly, you need to ask help from a third-party tool. The Wondershare Dr.Fone is a specially designed Android manager. Both versions can help you delete multiple SMS threads quickly and easily.
Pros: Delete multiple SMS threads at a time. Cons: Need to pay.
Download the right version on your PC or Mac and check out the steps below.
Both versions work similarly. Here, let's start the Android SMS deletion process with the Windows version.
Launch Dr.Fone and select Phone Manager from the main window. Then connect your Android phone to PC via USB cable.
Click the My Device tab. In the left column, click Messages to show the message management window. Tick the threads you want to erase. To erase all, tick the box next to Content. Click Delete. In the pop-up dialog, click Yes to begin the SMS deletion.
That is the simple steps on how to delete messages on Android phone. So easy, isn't it? Dr.Fone also empowers you to export and backup SMS as XML or TXT file on the computer. If you text a lot, you can also send messages from computer to your friends, families, and others.
Why not download it has a try? If this guide helps, don't forget to share it with your friends.
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