This never used to happen. I have always kept 4 strings of messages on my watch and deleted the others but kept the others on my iPhone. I have just deleted some from my iWatch to find they have also been deleted from my iPhone. I have lost important info and photos. Was this because of the latest update.
Apple Watch Series 8, watchOS 11
Caryn308: when you do that and you recover your text from your phone, they show back up on your iWatch. You can’t get rid of one without the other disappearing. They need to fix this!
Caryn308: when you do that and you recover your text from your phone, they show back up on your iWatch. You can’t get rid of one without the other disappearing. They need to fix this!
People have been complaining for years that Watch didn't work like everything else and sync deletions in Messages. Apparently, Apple has finally changed that.
Apollo1949 wrote:
This is definitely now happening. I also have had my iwatch ultra and iphones for many years and now a delete on the watch of either messages or emails, is deleting on my phone. How can we avoid this?
It doesn't appear that you can. Apple has finally made the Watch behavior consistent with all the other devices in the Apple ecosystem.
You can let Apple know your thoughts here:
Yes, thank you and we have been doing that now, whereas it wasn’t needed in the past. thank you 🙏 for sharing. 😀
Unfortunately now, recovering the deleted emails on the phone brings them right back on the watch!
Chloe1817 wrote:
Caryn308: when you do that and you recover your text from your phone, they show back up on your iWatch. You can’t get rid of one without the other disappearing. They need to fix this!
Changed ≠ broken or needs to be fixed. This is a feature that has been much requested since the Watch was released. I'd guess it's unlikely it will be changed again soon. But, you should let Apple know your thoughts here:
This is definitely now happening. I also have had my iwatch ultra and iphones for many years and now a delete on the watch of either messages or emails, is deleting on my phone. How can we avoid this?
Today I spent 50 minutes with apple support and 60 minutes with Verizon support regarding this issue of when I delete a message or email from my Iwatch ultra, they are deleted on my phone. Both had me running through all kinds of settings only to tell me, they are both synced. Of course I know this and we like this. I explained to both that it never did this before and I am talking about for years I could delete my watch and it didn't effect my phone. Absolutely noting happened since they are saying they are in sync and they don't know that it did not do that before.
Go to your messages. Select EDIT in the top corner. Select the messages your want to recover.
I’d like to turn this new feature off. I have store messages to icloud off.
Apple Support confirmed that for the devices where Text Message Forwarding is turned on, on your iPhone, deleting text messages from the Apple Watch will delete messages from those devices.
When I delete a message from my iWatch it’s also deleting from my iPhone.
