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

All Watches with WatchOS 11 are experiencing it.

They need to do another update to fix this because I’m not feeling this. I just like deleting from my watch and keep messages just on my phone not deleting from one of the other and deletes from both 🙄😤 Apple please fix asap. Sometimes I hate updating my devices cause it may be a feature or app you love and soon you update your devices you can’t use whatever it was again

I’m having the same issues!!! Yes I agree!

Don’t waste your time calling tech support because they don’t understand why it’s occurring. They do not say that it is the upgrade. They fail to understand it just happened after the update.

Oh wow I really hope they do another update to change it back to how it was! I don’t like scrolling so much on watch to find threads !! 😤

Yes, I keep photos and files in messages. Its always been a option, and now it isn't.

This specific discussion.

why we delete them is our business. It isn’t for you to understand. We just want to know why it was changed and if someone has found a way around it.

You are CLEARLY NO HELP if you don’t delete your messages from your watch, cause why would you be looking for a solution if it’s not something you do.

Oh, the irony! Prior to iOS 18 the was a constant stream of post saying “why, when I delete a message from my watch is it NOT deleted from my other devices? This is contrary to the way almost every synced service works.”

Mendelman79 wrote:

I want the message deleted off my watch but not off my phone like I’ve always have done in the past. I don’t want to pin any text messages..

But this is exactly what pinning a message is for, so that you do not have to scroll through past messages to find who you're looking for.

I don't delete messages on my watch and never have so I was not even aware deleting them in the past did not delete them on the phone. It is more consistent now that it does delete it on the phone too as that is how every other Apple device works. If you make a change on one device, it makes that change on all devices. Keeps things simple.

I almost never find texting on the watch more convenient than pulling out my phone though.

Listen, I understand the method of which this was supposed to work and the fix is in with Watch OS11 but it’s terrible!! Over the years I’ve had 2 Apple Watches and both did exactly the same delete from both Separately that was GREAT! I wanted to keep those messages that I wanted.. I’m not going to pin anything, I’ve expressed my displeasure on the feedback many of times that’s all I can do!! As you see by this thread MANY others feel the same as I do! Apple should have giving us the option maybe don’t sync messages to the cloud … I understand those messages are not lost because their in the cloud, if I know those messages stay on my phone I’m good I’ll delete them when I want. I just don’t want them on my watch.

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That’s what we’re all complaining about that we DON’T want messages deleted from our phone once they are deleted from our watch. I said nothing about iPads… I have friends who are NOT having this problem like you after they installed Watch OS 11 and iOS 18 on there phones but some of us are having an issue with deleting messages from that phone after it’s deleted from the watch. I’m not sure you fully understand the post exactly.. Some individuals are not having that problem and some of us are. I said that in earlier post.

jadenie43 wrote:

Now they’ve made it so my phone doesn’t even do a text tone anymore, it comes from my Watch.

Since the first Watch was released it has always worked that way. It is not a case of “Now” - text tones have always defaulted to the watch if the watch was being worn and the phone was locked. This is not a change.

The reasoning is if you received text alerts on both devices it would be really annoying.

I strongly agree that deleting messages on Apple Watch SHOULD NOT take the messages from my iPhone. How could Apple think this is a good idea? Best choice would be the user decides if one deletes from the other.

Christina904 wrote:

We definitely need an update to correct this.

Actually, this is an update to correct the bug where deleting from a watch did NOT delete messages from other platforms. That is counter to all other Apple iCloud functions, where deleting from one platform is always synced to all other platforms. This was the ONE exception and it made no sense.