We have an ample amount of internal storage in our smartphones these days. We don’t need to worry about contacts or messages taking up space, unlike older times with feature phones. However, having a pile of older text messages will cause the message application to run slow sometimes. If you value privacy, you certainly don’t want others to go through your older messages. So it is a good practice to delete the older SMSes from time to time.
In both Android and iOS, there is a feature that lets the user delete older messages on a schedule. The user does not need to worry about older messages stacking up at all. Deleting older messages will make sure that your SMSes are always organized, and the messaging app is not filled up with useful texts that don’t have any value to them. The process of automatically deleting messages on iOS and Android is different, and we will take a look at both of them one after the other. So without any further ado, let’s get into it.
How to automatically delete text messages on Android and iOS?
iOS users do have the option of deleting older messages built into the default messaging application. But with Android, that is not the case. To enable the auto-delete feature, we will have to use a compatible messaging app that serves the purpose. Google has its very own Google Hangout, so we will guide you on how you can auto-delete messages on Android with Google Hangouts as the default SMS application. This is not the ideal solution for Android, but this is all we can do to auto-delete messages on an Android phone.