Do you save your text messages?

[pseudoware]

I don't know, I've always treated texts like phone calls - ATM info exchange. If anything is important enough, I'd write it down, voice record it, Evernote, screenshot, etc. Attachments get saved if I wanted to keep them. Otherwise, like a phone call, I'm done w/that text. I don't need to archive it or move it to my new phone or restore it after flashing a new ROM.

Just me, but I don't get copying hundreds or thousands of text messages to a new phone, or saving them on an SD card or computer. Anyone do this? Why? Or, why not?

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[radicchio]

Rarely. and then no more than a week or two at most.

 

[gone down south]

I don't purposely go out of my way to delete them, but if I get a new phone or do a hard reset or flash a new ROM I don't care that I lose all the history

 

[vcr.magri]

I don't. I almost always delete the immediately after reading.

 

[rrballer11]

I just let it fill up and delete by itself.

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[davidnc]

Normally, I delete them once read. If I dont then I dont keep them long, maybe a few days.It all depends on if its just everyday chat or important chat

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[zorak950]

I don't go out of my way to delete them (unless they're spam or login codes or something equally pointless to keep), but I don't transfer them to new devices.

 

[Smply_Rcklss]

I have 16-17,000 texts in my inbox. There's no reason in why they're still there, just never deleted em.

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[IamMasterChat]

i do save text messages on work-related concern

 

[DCSholtis]

Nope as soon as convo ends I delete

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[grosssmutttr]

I do a backup of my messages every 2 weeks and delete them from the phone!

 

[cepeling666]

I never save my messages - I don't need them. Why do you do backups? Do you have some love messages or what?

 

[kenil88]

Rarely I save messages

 

[abazigal]

Is there any reason not to save them? How much space do they even take up anyways?

 

[sting7k]

I neither actively save nor delete text messages. I just text.

 

[Almeuit]

Yep. I just never delete them. Just keep them stored there. Although I switch phones or whatever I don't try and port them... I just never delete them off the phone I am using ... Unless it's a few messages with someone I don't contact much.

 

[Ed Briggs]

No reason to keep them.

 

[kenil88]

No i dnt like to save messages

 

[Inders99]

I usually keep them because most of them are business related, if I need to reference something then it's there. I do very little personal texting so it's really not much of a factor for me.

 

[ellisroy]

Doesn't keeping text messages use up phone memory and resources?