I want to delete Links that were sent to me in the Messages app without having to delete the entire conversation on my MacBook Air

In my Message app on my MacBook Air: When I try to highlight a Link that was messaged to me, in order to delete the Link, I am always brought to the Link website and there is no way to just hold either the 'command key' or the 'shift key' in order to delete the Link.

MacBook Air 11″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Oct 7, 2023 05:20 PM

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Posted on Oct 8, 2023 09:15 AM

Right click the link and choose delete ... then delete again. Then right click and delete the resulting new "message" that appears.


If I feel a message is important, I copy and past it into a document that will be backed up .... possibly without the link. I never do the above, but it does work for a link I sent myself.

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Oct 8, 2023 09:15 AM in response to cynthiafromglobalcommunity

Right click the link and choose delete ... then delete again. Then right click and delete the resulting new "message" that appears.


If I feel a message is important, I copy and past it into a document that will be backed up .... possibly without the link. I never do the above, but it does work for a link I sent myself.

Oct 9, 2023 12:48 AM in response to ku4hx

Thank you.

On my MacBook Air, every time I try to right click an attached link someone sent me, it brings me to the website of the link. Eventually, I go to the top left Apple>About>Storage>Manage and I click on ‘Messages’ where I find all of the total attachments in all of my message chains, (photos, docs, links etc.,) that were sent to me as an attachment to a ‘text‘ that a friend may have texted to me.


… so I still don’t have a solution to the problem I’m having.

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I want to delete Links that were sent to me in the Messages app without having to delete the entire conversation on my MacBook Air

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