iphone sms

Grimgoth · 18 Aug 2008 at 11:02

I know when sync-ing, itunes backs up all those sms conversations.
I was wondering if there was any way of editing which sms conversations are on the phone, and deleting most of the crap in the middle.
Or being able to do so off the iphone on the backup and then forcing the iphone to loose them.

Will_3rd · 18 Aug 2008 at 19:22

Just delete the messages on the phone, easiest way AFAIK.

Grimgoth · 19 Aug 2008 at 13:52

erm, now i'm going to sound stupid. how do you delete individual bits of a "conversation" rather than the entire conversation, which is the only thing i know how to do using the clear conversation function?

Cybertronic · 19 Aug 2008 at 13:55

It is possible if you jailbreak your iPhone. When I had the 1.1.4 firmware, there was an application in Installer which allowed you to delete individual SMSs along with other various features. I don't think it has been ported to the 2.0 firmware yet unless anyone can confirm?

Grimgoth · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:14

aaaah.... not jailbroken. sigh. don't feel like messing with it too much- yet

Nikumba · 19 Aug 2008 at 20:20

So all SMS are backed up are they? So if you do a hard reset and re-sync and they will all reappear?

Kimbie

FreeStream · 19 Aug 2008 at 20:28

In the backup folder im sure I found the text file and I *think* they were in plain text with some coding around it...

Have a look there? MobileSync folder on a mac.

Cybertronic · 19 Aug 2008 at 21:18

All SMSs are indeed backed up, in a SQLite3 database according to TUAW.

Grimgoth · 19 Aug 2008 at 22:14

this is too much work to delete them messages.... have ppl been bugging apple to "fix" this feature?