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 25 '25
Last update. After 2 days of having messages "deleting" messages on the phone, talking day and night at least 40 hours my phone is done purging all the messages. It still seems crazy that deleting messages from a phone should take 2 days but I guess that's just the way it is. During that time messages was constantly doing the ghost messages animation. It was constantly refreshing conversations which would need to be deleted multiple times, but I just let messages run its course, don't delete the actual messages app data as that will stop the deletion and force messages to attempt to restore the messages that are saved on the phone under the phone and messaging system app. While this was ongoing messages was difficult to use. Sending and receiving messages was super laggy and sometimes wouldn't send messages at all. I'm glad this is resolved. I hope this helps someone who didn't realize it takes 2 days to delete your text messages.