How do you delete the backed up text messages so you can clear space? 70% of my Google memory is my backed up text messages and I don't know how to delete them. Any help?
Go to accounts and backup, go to the Google Drive section, select Back up data. You will see the "Manage Storage" option. Tap that, and then tap the "clear up space" icon. Choose what you want to delete. It only gives you to option to clear out the items taking the largest amount of space, so it may not list the messages specifically. If you used a third-party app to back up your messages to Google, open that app and delete your backup. The messages are usually saved with the device backup, not independently, so you may have to back up important texts elsewhere and just delete the texts from your messaging app; ether by deleting individual texts within conversations or deleting whole conversations. You can also get to this space if you have a computer by going to one.google.com (you can also go there via web browser on the phone)
Well what sucks because the item taking up the most space is my text messages and it won't let me delete them lol I checked for any third party's but there weren't any. Any other ideas?
If your old texts are important to you, there is an app in the Play store called SMS backup and restore and it does a really good job of backing up messages to the location of your choice. You can backup all your old messages or selective conversations. You can set it to back up automatically or you can do it manually when you feel like it. There are other apps that do the same thing, but this is simple and the texts are readable in a .pdf file. Even if you choose to save it to Google, you can then delete any backups you no longer need. You can then, if you want, exclude backing up texts in the phone's backup by unchecking it in accounts and backup. You can also use Smart Switch to back up your texts to a flash drive, external hard drive or computer. In the meantime, if you truly no longer need the old texts you are looking to delete, delete old texts from your current messages and any new device backup should overwrite what is now in Google. You can also turn off backup to Google if you want, as your messages get backed up in the Samsung cloud (unless you turned that slider off). The Google backup is just insurance in case you move from a Samsung Device, as the Samsung backups can only be restored to a Samsung device. while Google backups can be restored to any device (I believe even Apple).
