I have message forwarding between devices turned on, so, if I inadvertently delete something, I have a second shot at it.
> On Apr 16, 2016, at 12:17 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > Mary, > > The messages will not disappear until 2 minutes after you played them. It > would of course be silly if they disappeared after 2 minutes since this > assumes you are sitting there waiting ready to listen immediately. > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Mary Otten > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 8:53 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Messages disappeared > > Well, that was in fact sent to two minutes. But those messages Hung around > for longer than that. I got them yesterday. They were present this morning. > They were absent this afternoon. And technically, I don't know if they count > as audio messages, as it said attached media in both cases. Maybe that's what > an audio message is. I get so few messages. In any case, I was lucky, because > the person was able to resend the messages without any problem. I have set > that keep audio messages setting to forever. so if that was the problem, I > guess I should be good to go. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 15, 2016, at 8:37 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: >> >> Hi Mary, >> >> You probably didn't delete the messages accidently, but by default iOS >> deletes audio messages after 2 minutes.. >> You may want to check what is set for the expiry of audio and video messages >> in Settings > Messages. It's near the bottom and I believe by default audio >> and video messages expire after 2 minutes, you can double tap on that and >> the options are 2 minutes or never. When it is set to 2 minutes, the >> explanation reads as follows: >> >> When you sent or listen to an audio message it will automatically be removed >> from your conversation history after 2 minutes. >> >> As I said, you can change this to "Never" or, whenever you get an audio >> message and tap on it to play it, there is a "Keep" button and if you tap >> that the message will be kept. This is not a bug but it is done this way by >> design, almost works like SnapChat except it is only like this for audio >> messages so that not a bunch of storage space is taken up by old audio >> messages. >> >> >> Regards, >> Sieghard >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of Mary Otten >> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 2:27 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Messages disappeared >> >> I have no idea how that could've happened, since the other messages I >> deleted were not from the same person who sent me the ones I wanted to keep. >> Very disgusting. >> Mary >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Apr 15, 2016, at 2:21 PM, Jennie Facer <jennie.fa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Did you accidentally delete the whole conversation? Maybe that did it. >>> >>> Jennie Facer >>> >>>> On Apr 15, 2016, at 3:18 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> Yesterday, somebody sent me two messages with voice memo audio attached. I >>>> did not delete them. They were there yesterday evening. Today, I got two >>>> messages neither of which had audio, both of which I deleted. And now, >>>> those two other messages are gone. I can't search for them and find them. >>>> They are simply not there. Yesterday, if I did a search for one of the >>>> words in the title, the messages appeared. Now, they are simply not >>>> appearing. How would a message get deleted if I didn't deliberately delete >>>> it? I guess there is no way to get these back, correct? These were not >>>> voicemails. They were messages sent from somebody's iPhone with attached >>>> audio. 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