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I was looking at some things on my Iphone 4 and saw some old text messages from my ex on the spotlight search. I was in awe because I thought I deleted those messages but apparantly you can see them on the spotlight search :/ lets just say it was a bad breakup and everytime i see his name i get bad memories. I searched on google for hours trying to figure out how to delete text messages on my hard drive but the only thing i found was deleting EVERYTHING on my phone (restoring it) but I really don't want to do that because i have so much music and it would take forever to put it all back. (i've had to go through this awhile ago and it wasn't fun)
so my question is.. is there any way i can delete this text messages permanently? remember- they are on the hard drive. they aren't on the actual text app screen. like i deleted it from the texting app (where the texts are green and gray) i deleted those but the texts are still on the hard drive/spotlight search. anyway i can delete these without deleting everything?
PS: in case you didn't get the clue, it was a bad breakup. meaning i dont want to text him and get the past texts up in order to delete them. i tried deleting his number but they still show up! help!! (link)
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Sorry to tell you that as of yet, there isn't a good answer.
What is happening is that spotlight builds a database of the messages, and when you delete them, they stay in the search db. :-(
Apple knows about this problem, and as of now, as far as I can find, offers no solution except the one you already know about.
If you took the chance to jailbreak your iPhone, there may be a solution for you. It involves deleting certain directories/folders from the internal memory, which will force the phone to rebuild the search database.
Here is a link to the active discussion on this:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12318777
... that is the official Apple support forum, so I would look quickly at page 2 of that thread before Apple takes down the info on the jailbroken hack to fix this.
I am sorry the breakup was bad. I hope you recover sooner than later. One last thought: If the only way to get rid of the messages forever is to reset and re-upload your music... isn't it worth it? It would be for me.
Good luck!
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good advice. thank you! and thanks for the tip at the end about whether or not its worth it. i think it is worth it. i'm trying rid my mind of him and those messages aren't helping. thanks again!
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