Can't delete individual texts to Trash in Google Messages

[bawaji]

I hope we can ask questions about Google Messages now that Samsung is making that the replacement for Samsung Messages.

I have a Samsung Series 23 phone and the Trash icon shows up when I click on my profile picture in Google Messages. I also have RCS toggled on and working.

When I try to delete an individual message in a conversation, the only choice I get is to delete permanently and there is no option to move the text message to trash. However, when I try to delete the whole conversation, I get the option of moving it to trash.

Is this the intended behavior? Is there no way to delete individual texts in a conversation and be able to retrieve them later?

Thanks!

[Mujibar · Accepted solution]

That is the intended behavior. You can only "trash" entire conversations, not individual messages.

[IraqVet04]

I think you can send them to the Archived folder to save a individual text rather than directly to the trash folder.

[bawaji]

Thanks! I will look into what archiving does.

[IraqVet04]

Your welcome.

[bawaji]

Thanks!

[AAbbott]

My bad, I misread what he was asking. I corrected

[bawaji]

No worries! 🙂

[bawaji]

I can delete (permanently) individual texts. I was asking whether the individual texts get saved in the trash so I can retrieve it later if I wanted to. As @Mujibar mentioned, it is not possible. Maybe in the future.🤞

The option to move a chat to the trash does show up for me. Not just for individual texts.

[AAbbott]

If you want to retain the option to recover deleted texts, you should download SMS backup and restore.  You can backup your chats forever and if you discover you need something back, you can restore it.  Or you can just read the backup file in PDF format.