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Prior to IOS 18, when I deleted messages on my Apple Watch Series 7, they were deleted only there. Now with IOS 18, the entire thread of messages gets deleted on my iPhone as well. Is there a fix or setting so it won’t delete from my iPhone as well. I have to keep recovering the messages from deleted messages. Thank you.
iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 18
It’s called OUR choice!!! That’s what some of us would like to do is delete messages from our watch ONLY, something we’ve been doing for years until the update!!! ITS not for you to understand why we do,but why did they change it? I delete messages off my watch because I want too! It works for me to have the original text on my phone and not on my watch.. That’s just how I like it and it’s obvious others want that too!!!
I agree this just happened to me. I used to be able to delete off the watch only and now it deleted a whole thread on my I phone as well. Had to go back in and recover. Please so an update and put back the way it was
I have been thinking I may have changed something accidentally so I have done a reset on my phone and watch and still seeing messages deleted from phone. No icloud sync for messages on any of my devices. I like to wait a few days to update/upgrade, to see if anything shows up in the forums. Didn't see any notices about this "feature" so I went ahead and applied the update. Gonna wait now till I am forced to apply any updates to OS. "Apple Intelligence"?, I don't think so.
This is how I would have expected it to work. Any reason why you'd want messages on your phone but not your watch?
Okay.
The answer is you can’t delete on only one device anymore and there is no way around it.
Hope this information helps, Nichole889.
Why wouldn't you just pin a conversation to the top?
That worked for me. Thank you!!!
1greatmamaw wrote:
This is so frustrating, there are messages I don’t want deleted from the iPhone!
Then don't delete them from the watch....
My Mac book air does not delete my messages if I delete them from my iPad , Apple Watch , or iPhone. I respectfully disagree what you posted. Have a good day.
Go to Settings/[your name]/iCloud and tap Messages. Do you have Use on this iPhone turned on?
They probably did this because they want people to go out and buy new watches with more memory. It's always about selling more stuff...
I’ll try this is still deleting my messages off my phone when I delete them off my watch thank you for the information though
Where must we put those for a higher upgrade of a watch? Mines at eight and I never had this issue until I updated so they need to fix it.
Yes, I did that, but messages are on my watch again (ugh).
CORRECTION: That will hide it on the WATCH.
This has never worked for me unfortunately
Deleting new messages on Apple Watch deletes all the message on iPhone
