Deleting new messages on Apple Watch deletes all the message on iPhone

This is so frustrating! I don’t want tons of messages on my Apple Watch. I only keep a few that I usually text a lot on my watch. I don’t want to scroll through all of them to find who I need. Please fix this issue!

This is a terrible iOs update. I hate having texts on my watch AND my phone. I want them off my watch and for them to remain on my phone. WHY did they do this?? I am seriously considering going back to my Google Pixel. Fix this, Apple - we paid way too much for this.

Deleting an iMessage on the watch would remove it from the watch only. Now it’s deleting them from the phone. It’s a complete surprise to anyone that has used an Apple Watch and iMessages in the last 10 years because it’s the complete opposite of what we expect. By habit many (most) read the message on the watch and delete it knowing the full quality original is on the phone. Now doing something that’s a habit deleted not only the newest message but the entire thread. At least we can retrieve them from the Recently Deleted because it hasn’t been 30 days from the release.

With that tone, have you used an Apple Watch and iMessages?

OK APPLE ! it’s 6:57 am 11/01/2024 Apple just did another senseless update on the watch and it still deletes messages from the watch and phone at the same time. Change it back to how it was if I delete one of the other it stays on one of the devices , I know it’s not hard to give customers what they want ASAP !

"I don’t want a million txts threads on my watch! It makes it hard to scroll thru and keep up with convos to ppl that I txt daily"

Right????!!!! OMGosh, how absolutely frustrating!!! 😡😡

I like having all messages on my phone but keeping my watch clear to the text messages I get during that day. Easier to know what messages I get during work. Keeps myself more organized. I’ve been reading just from this thread that a lot of people like to keep their watches clean and not filled with all messages.

A lot of people delete messages from their watch. If you don’t then why are you even commenting on this? Some like to keep things organized, or only have the ppl they message daily or frequently on their watch. It’s easy access without having to get out your phone. An if you delete all the unwanted messages from your watch it makes it easier to find those select few you want to message faster. I keep ALL my messages on my phone unless I choose to delete the whole thread because that person is no longer someone I talk to.

We definitely need an update to correct this. I too, only keep a few text threads on my iWatch. I am tired of having to recover threads on my iPhone. Come on Apple lets get this fixed ASAP!

Prior to updating to IOS 18.0.1, I could delete my messages from my iWatch and they were not affected on my iPhone. The only option I can find is to turn off iCloud synching of my messages. That is not an option for me, I need to be able to back them up.

I like the update. Glad they did this. I got tired of deleting messages on the iPhone and they would remain on the watch, then having to delete there too. It’s about time they fixed it. But they should make it a setting that we can choose to enable or disable.

And not to mention let alone it’s not even a hard press to delete all your messages on the watch at once 😮‍💨 the process of deleting 5 messages is **** 🥵

i'm wondering why I did the upgrade and now every time I delete a message off my watch I have to go and get it back on my phone cause it's deleting it on my phone as well and I'm not liking this. Is there anyway we can fix this?

I have been dealing with this issue since the update IOS 18. I've talked to several APPLE techs and most recently, sent the analytics to Apple. I'm expecting some kind of response tomorrow.

The issue is that when I delete a message on my watch, it deletes the ENTIRE thread on my phone. I now have billions of messages on my watch that I don't want.

The IOS 18.1 did not fix this issue either.

And, it's true that this is not affecting all Apple Watches and phones. Both techs that I talked to were not experiencing this problem.

I have a iPhone 13 and an Apple Watch 9

Teacherlgrl wrote:

Has this been solved yet because it’s incredibly annoying?

I just updated and had I known I would not…..

I don’t want to keep messages on my watch, but I do on my phone.

I’ve never had this problem with any watch- apple, Fitbit, garmin….

APPLE, I LOVE THIS!!!!! Messages on an Apple Watch FINALLY work the same way they work on a Mac, iPad, iPhone and even an iPod Touch. The lack of consistency in how the watch worked has been driving me crazy for years!

But seriously, if you want to communicate with Apple this user-to-user forum is NOT how to do it. Here is where they take user opinions→https://apple.com/feedback.