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How to delete multiple photos and videos at once in Messages for iPhone and iPad

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href='http://www.imore.com/how-delete-multiple-photos-and-videos-once-messages-iphone-and-ipad' title="How to delete multiple photos and videos at once in Messages for iPhone and iPad"><img src='http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large_wm_blw/public/field/image/2015/05/iphone-6-delete-images-hero.jpg?itok=mLFkfr9Y' />[/url]</p> <p class="intro">Pictures and videos stored in the Messages app can take up lots of storage space on your iPhone and iPad.</p> <p>If you've already saved a lot of them, there's little reason to keep them hanging around in the Messages app (http://www.imore.com/imessage). Deleting them all one by one would be a daunting and tedious task. Instead, you can delete multiple images or videos at once in the Messages app. You've just got to know where to look!</p> <!--break--> <p>Before continuing, make sure you're running <a href="http://www.imore.com/ios-8" title="iOS 8 help, how-to, news, reviews">iOS 8[/url] or higher on your iPhone or iPad, otherwise you won't see some of the options in the steps below.</p> <h2>How to delete multiple pictures and videos at once in Messages for iOS</h2> <ol><li>Launch the <strong>Messages app</strong> on your iPhone or iPad. </li> <li>Open the message thread you'd like to delete pictures or videos from. </li> <li>Tap on the <strong>Details button</strong> in the top right.

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