With the advent of email & SMS marketing and the increased pace in number of messages exchanged between friends and family, the number of messages in your inbox will keep on growing day by day and heavy load or increase in number of messages in your inbox will result to load the Text Messaging app very slowly and storing excessive number of messages texts in your message box will result in more processing time for opening the Messaging app which in turn will use more power from battery resulting in a quicker drain of power. So it is always recommended to carry less number of messages either by deleting them manually or by doing it in the automated way, yeah your Android device is capable of deleting the old messages from your smart phone automatically..!
Before you wonder and ask me “is it possible to delete messages from inbox automatically from my Android phone?” let me confirm you again, yeah it is possible and all you need to do and follow is to configure your device as mentioned in following steps.
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How To Automatically Delete Old Texts on Android Device?
- Deleting the texts in automatic way is pretty simple, and for configuring that first you need to launch your text messaging app.
- Now, click on ‘Menu’ button and then click on ‘Settings’ button.
- Under setting, just check the option ‘Delete old messages’ (when you turn-on the setting, just notice the green check-mark to confirm that the option was enabled) and then you are free to set the limit for your text conversations. Although the default value is 200, it is recommended to set a lower number for better performance.
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That’s it, configuring it is pretty simple and straight forward and you need to do is to enable a setting. In case if you have any issues please let us know your concerns through the comments box.
Happy Android’ing…!




This is certainly a good way to delete the old messages.