Why can't I delete GIFs I've sent via text from keyboard (Galaxy S10e)

[Android Central Question]

How do I delete GIF history from GIF files I have sent via text? After I select and text a gif, the next time I compose a text message and press GIF on the keyboard to search gif files, all the past gif files I've sent appear in the keyboard selection area. Can't seem to hold my finger on them to make them delete, or find any other way to get rid of what I've sent.

Thank you!
David

 

[Rukbat]

Use a file manager to find them and delete them. (Or Gallery or Photos might find them, and you could delete them from there.)

 

[skittledoodah]

Unable to find them... tried on phone through Files, as well on macbook via Android File Transfer. Any other ideas?? Please Help!!

 

[skittledoodah]

I have the exact same problem

 

[Scienceguy Labs]

Have you tried going into settings, then the keyboard app, and deleting cache, data, all that jazz?

 

[skittledoodah]

Yep. Only deletes keyboard text history/cache/etc, not the GIF history stuff. BUT.. I found a work around. I have an S8+, perhaps differs from the S10, idk.
WORK AROUND SOLUTION: only holds onto 20 most recent differnet GIFs. SO... just send 20 new gifs and all the old ones you want to delete will be gone Which doesn't clear your history, but, if you need to get rid of a specific one, this will get the job done.

 

[skittledoodah]

I have an S8+, perhaps differs from the S10, idk.
WORK AROUND SOLUTION: only holds onto 20 most recent differnet GIFs. SO... just send 20 new gifs and all the old ones you want to delete will be gone Which doesn't clear your history (still have 20 past gifs show up when you go to select one for a text), but, if you need to get rid of a specific one, this will get the job done by pushing off the grid