Hi Trahern,
OK, in messages there are 2 places/screens: 1. In the main screen which shows all your conversations you can delete entire conversations 2. If you double tap on a conversation where you see the screen with all the individual messages, you can delete individual messages, a selection of messages or you can clear the entire message history. The last will delete all messages, but the entry/conversation remains in the main screen but without any messages in it. In both cases the action rotor is your best way to delete stuff and, in fact, for deleting individual messages it is your only way. All you have to do when you are on a conversation in the main screen of Messages is to flick up or down with 1 finger, Voiceover will say "Delete". If you now double tap the conversation will be gone. If you decide you don't want to delete it after all, flick once more and Voiceover will say "Activate item, default action". This means if you now double tap the default action is performed which is to open the item/conversation. On the main screen in the Messages app you also still have an "Edit" button at the top left of the screen. You can tap it and as in the days before the action rotor, you now have a delete button/switch in front of each message. Double tap it, double tap to confirm and it's gone. As you can see, here you need to touch the Edit button, double tap on it, then touch and double tap the delete button and double tap again to confirm. That is a total of 8 taps. If you simply swipe down on a conversation and double tap you can do the same with 3 taps. If you are inside a conversation where you see all the messages, as Trahern pointed out, the Edit button which used to be at the top right is now replaced bya Contact button. If you are in the Messages app and you find yourself wanting to call somebody, you can tap Contact which at that point turns into a "Done" button. Immediately underneath that are 3 buttons: On the right edge just under the Done button is "More Info", this will open the normal contact card/window for the person. Swipe left one and there is a Facetime button Swipe left one more time and there is a Call button. Remember you are in the Messages app, so this Call button will call the person's Mobile. If you want to call their home or work phone, you could double tap More Info and then double tap on the appropriate number in their Contact card. As for deleting individual messages in the conversation, you here must use the 1-finger swipe down or up gesture on a message since the Action rotor is automatically enabled. The option Voiceover announces is "More. and if you double tap on it, you get a Clear All button near the top, but here you can also double tap individual messages and then find a Delete button at the bottom of the screen. If your conversation has 8 messages, you could, for example, double tap on 4 or 5 of them and then these will show as Selected, then if you double tap Delete whichever messages are selected will be deleted. Apart from the Delete option which is above the home key and a bit to the left there is also a Forward option to the right of Delete. If you want to forward a single or multiple messages to somebody elses mobile number, this is where you would do it. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of trahern culver Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 2:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: how to delete text and i messages in ios7? hey all how do you delete text and i messages in ios7? i know how its meant to be done but on my iphone 4 the edit button has been replaced by a button named contacts and the edit button has dissapeard all together any one know what's going on? your help with this question would be most welcome kind regards trahern. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. 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