Messages on the iPhone can be deleted. However, as practice has shown, they do not disappear completely, but remain in the cache. Therefore, the question of many users is logical: "How to delete deleted SMS in an iPhone?" Few people like this "setup" from their own phone, so in this article we will describe ways to help solve this problem. As a result, you will learn how to properly delete deleted SMS in iPhone 5, as well as in other models.
Where are the deleted messages?
Finding deleted messages is easy. They are always stored in Spotlight searches. And even if you erase messages in the usual way, they still remain in the search. True, only the first line of the message will be visible, but even this is very unpleasant. Especially if it is confidential. Now you know where the remote SMS is stored in the iPhone. You can proceed directly to the removal.
How to see deleted SMS on an iPhone?
To get started, simply delete some message. Now activate Spotlight Search. It turns on when you drag your finger across the screen from top to bottom. In this search, start writing your deleted message. The first line of SMS will be clearly visible.
Spotlight search alone is a handy thing that really helps. If you write the name of a contact in the search, you will immediately see the information associated with it. Including those messages that you have already deleted. On the one hand, this is a convenient thing, and on the other - a setup. So it’s worth sorting out this problem once and for all.
Method one
Today, you can often find descriptions of how to delete deleted SMS in an iPhone. Moreover, different methods are used. The very first and obvious one is to use Spotlight's search settings. We go on your smartphone in "Settings" - "Basic" - "Search Spotlight". There you will see a huge set of applications that are involved in the search. We are interested in "Messages". Opposite this item will be a green toggle switch in the active position. Click on it and it will become inactive. Now in Spotlight search messages will not be displayed. In general, none, even remote ones.
You can also use this setting for e-mail messages. For example, if you do not want the email to appear in Spotlight search. But this does not concern our problem.
This method partially solves the problem of deleted messages, but has one big drawback: if you go back to the settings and activate the toggle switch, then the deleted SMS will be displayed in the search again. So the option with Spotlight settings solves the problem by only 50%.
The second way to delete deleted SMS in iPhone
Go to "Settings" - "Basic" - "Languages and text". Here you need to change the language. For example, choose Russian (usually there are several variants of the Russian language) or English. After that, the phone reboots the interface (not the system). Then the language can be changed back. After this operation, deleted messages disappear from Spotlight Search. It is possible that newly deleted SMS messages that you deleted after changing the language will reappear in the search. Therefore, this procedure must be repeated every time after deleting the message. But this is only if you do not want someone to see the erased correspondence.
Third way
Everything is even simpler: delete the message, quickly open the taskbar (press the Home button 2 times) and close the Messages application. To do this, simply drag the application window from the bottom up.
After this procedure, erased SMS messages do not get into Spotlight search. Probably, the system simply does not have time to copy the text to the cache due to the fact that you quickly close the application. But these are only thoughts aloud. How actually the iOS operating system works, few people know, but this is unimportant. The important thing is that this helps to delete deleted SMS on the iPhone.
After these steps, you can also create a backup in iTunes (or on iCloud). The saved data in the copy will be updated, and it will be impossible to recover and even more so to read deleted messages. But this is for the paranoid.
Fourth way
Many more experienced users recommend doing JailBreak. That is, to crack the operating system, which will make it possible to change it, install applications that are not in iTunes, and generally modify the shell to your taste. After installing JailBreak, you can use the file manager to find the Spotlight folder and delete the saved messages from it. But installing JailBreak requires some user skills. It turns out this is not for everyone.
At least one of the above methods should help you. But it is likely that with the new software update Apple will eliminate this defect, because deleted messages should remain deleted, and the whole story with the search is most likely a program bug.