Google messages guru...HELP!

[Cindys]

You quoted my message from earlier but didn't answer the question within, to say if any of this worked for you or not.

Here again you've quoted my message to tell me that you already knew about this but don't say if it's helpful or not, if swiping messages is how you accidentally delete things or if you're still looking for some other different solution.

Anyway, I looked a bit more, because I know what you were talking about when it asks if you also want to delete, I don't remember if it called them saved messages but whatever, just before you delete. I did find a way to star individual messages within a thread, but this only highlights the messages and makes them easier to find because you can search for stared messages. Adding a star however did not prevent the message from being deleted, nor did it cause the app to ask about saved messages.

Best wishes.

I did get a message that you answered earlier, but it must have gotten hung in cyber space cuz I couldn't see it. Sorry about that.
The swipe option did work for me, I set it to archive instead of delete. I usually try to clean out threads once a week so I don't have to read thru all of them again. Also, I have used the pin option on my important threads, so that helps. Haven't done anything with the star option, but will look at that later. Thanks for your knowledge, you have helped a lot!

 

[mustang7757]

New question for Google messages... in a thread with several contacts, can you 'mute' the conversation? Since I feel like that will be a simple NO answer, I'll ask the next question before I forget it...lol.

In messages+ I could 'bookmark' messages that would keep them from being deleted (accidentally) when a thread was deleted. There was an option on the delete drop down that would let you check to delete bookmarked items if you decided not to keep them any longer. I used this constantly for (baseball etc) schedules sent to me or an itinerary of some sort... pretty much anything I didn't want to lose.

Very nice option google messages should consider.

You can silence that group text and just pin it to prevent accidentally delete

 

[y2jman]

if you delete a line in a individual chat does it delete the complete history or just that 1 line like samsung message app does

yes i'm still being stubbon and having hard time figure out wanna go into google message despite older phone or textra without rcs its complicated

i have try to asked sorry samsung chat today when samsung message supposed to stop working they won't give answer because samsung message already defaults to google message despite my s20 doesn't have it and have to download if i want to make it default message meh

 

[Cindys]

if you delete a line in a individual chat does it delete the complete history or just that 1 line like samsung message app does

yes i'm still being stubbon and having hard time figure out wanna go into google message despite older phone or textra without rcs its complicated

i have try to asked sorry samsung chat today when samsung message supposed to stop working they won't give answer because samsung message already defaults to google message despite my s20 doesn't have it and have to download if i want to make it default message meh

In a individual chat, you can delete a single line. When you hold down on the line it will be highlighted, you'll see all the emojis across the top. You can find the delete option at top of screen.

 

[y2jman]

hmm how odd is this just talk to samsung they claim i might have issues going into samsung text app to google message unlike what chat told me early this morning

think i should get a 3rd party texting app due to older phone and still on android 13 perhaps i need 2nd opinion call back they claim issues like won't be able open up app etc etc etc despite i hate going into it being force into samsung message every once in awhile open app despite said not now like 3,4 times already past 3 weeks meh

 

[Cindys]

hmm how odd is this just talk to samsung they claim i might have issues going into samsung text app to google message unlike what chat told me early this morning

think i should get a 3rd party texting app due to older phone and still on android 13 perhaps i need 2nd opinion call back they claim issues like won't be able open up app etc etc etc despite i hate going into it being force into samsung message every once in awhile open app despite said not now like 3,4 times already past 3 weeks meh

I worried about losing stuff going back and forth... before I finally decided to suck it up and use Google. So I downloaded a app called SMS Backup... it really works, you can set up when you want it to backup and where to. I have mine going to my SD card. From the backup (all are dated) it will put everything back into the messaging app from the day you choose.

 

[y2jman]

i decided to go in here am not sure will like or not i don't know delay text message or not only my oldest brother and youngest niece has rcs

heck i turn on web preview and they aren't even showing unlike samsung message not sure glitch or not so far am not that impress

folks who do been using google message for awhile does web preview showing on your end in messages or not?

wouldn't mind going back samsung message only reason why i went into google message because of this came up early this morning when i open up samsung app

https://i.redd.it/fzgqemvte2od1.jpeg

background black from samsung theme and not now button was red i give it a few days but i may decide to do textra i don't know or continue with samsung text saying not now until it goes belly up so to speak