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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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Remove Messages from Spotlight Search - Your deleted SMS messages can`t appear in a Spotlight search if Spotlight isn`t looking for them in the first place. You can control what apps Spotlight searches in and which it ignores, so you can stop it from searching Messages. To do this: From your home screen, tap Settings Tap General Scroll about halfway down the screen and tap Spotlight Search Scroll to the bottom of the screen and tap Messages to uncheck it. Now, when you run a Spotlight search on your phone, SMS messages won`t be included in the results.
I recently sold my iPhone 4s and followed the erase all content route but didn't stick long enough to see it through, and I found some iPhone data recovery app can restore deleted data from iPhone without backup files, so, I think we have to permanently erase everything from iPhone device before selling it, some “Deleted operation” really doesn’t erase all the data and it still out there, you cannot it.
http://www.vibosoft.com/ios/how-to-erase-iphone-text-messages.html
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