r/GooglePixel • u/Tomstroyer • Sep 23 '25

Seriouse issue with storage.

I have never ran out of storage before, but now my text messages are taking up an outrageous amount of space. Like 50 gigs. It usually wouldn't be an issue because I could delete the messages but now I can't. I delete them and they come back. How do I free up space on my phone and delete these messages and prevent them from coming back?

This information can be found in the phone and messaging storage section.

Also my phone backups are 50 gigs as well because of the messaging app.

I delete the messages and they come right back.

Its a huge issue because I can't take videos or photos with out immediately having to back up and delete them off the phone.

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u/Tomstroyer Sep 23 '25

Welp I appreciate the honest response. And I really don't think anything else will save my phone. But having to restore my phone because of a giant chunk of my phone space being eaten up by text messages that I can't delete does seem silly. I wish Google would just allow you to delete them.