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

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!!!

Having the exact same problem since the iOs18 upgrade! I don't need to keep the messages on my watch. I have always only kept on my phone. Now if I delete from my watch it deletes across all devices, despite not having it synced to the cloud. Hope there is an answer soon!

Yes I’m having that same issue and it’s really ******* me off! 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!! And all those junk messages too!!! They need to change that back!

They need to do another update to fix this issue or give us the option to delete from both devices because I don’t like when I’m deleting from my watch now and it’s deleting from the phone as well 😤

I have the same issue but i don’t know of it’s ios 18 or if it has to do with the watches ios 11. Super frustrating though having to go back to recover messages on iphone.

Also, there definitely needs to be an option on the watch to delete/clear multiple messages/ conversations at once. Going one by one is super frustrating, especially when you have a bunch or forget to delete/clear one day and come back next day to 50 different convos. Help us out Apple!

It’s happening to me on the iPhone 15 as well. Deleting messages from Apple Watch series 9 and they are also deleted from IPhone 15. Want a fix asap.

This new update is cool but it messed something up , before I could delete messages from my watch which I don’t like messages staying on there just on my 15 pro max. Now while deleting from the watch it deletes from the phone as well then I have to recover the messages. Apple needs to do another update to fix this issue because I’m definitely not liking

Yea when I chatted with a rep last week they didn’t know why and also a senior rep said it was because I had turned on my iCloud messages and turned off which is not true because my sons is off and his is doing the same thing. I also asked a few others that have both the watch and said theirs is deleting off the phone too! They claim it wasn’t on the last update but what a coincidence it didn’t happen until then! My husband hasn’t updated either and his isn’t doing it!

I am having the same problem! I only like have a few text threads on my watch not everything from my phone. This is such an annoying thing. We need an option to only delete from one. Cause when you recover them on your phone they appear back on your watch! 😤😤

Our Apple Watch battery is already junk, so I try to keep as much off of it as possible. DO BETTER APPLE. FIX THE PROBLEM!

Well, my watch battery is draining faster after the update ! I decided to see what I could delete on the Apple Watch. Much to my surprise , I discovered that all my deleted voicemails on my iPhone were on my watch. That hiccup took

a bit of digging on my part as my iPhone did not display my deleted voicemails. I have never voiced my dislike on an update before, but Apple really messed up with this update. I hope they fix the bugs promptly !!!!

Been on phone with apple for about an hour. Sounds like they think it has always been synced up. But I have never had full threads of messages on my watch. I've always in 8 years been able to delete a message from my watch and it would stay on my phone. I do not need all of my texts on my 32gb watch. Its messy, and most times I keep docs and photos in messages on my phone. I have a 13 Pro Max, and honestly didn't have an issue...prior to updating my watch to ios 11. And I am currently running ios 18 on my phone. DO NOT UPGRADE...this is not good.

This is the absolute worst update ever. I would rather keep my messages on my phone and be able to clear my watch without them disappearing on my phone like it always did. I HATE IT! Also, why hasn’t there ever been a way to revert back and undo the last update?

I finally got a tech support person who acknowledged it was due to the last update. I was told that Apple was aware of the”bug” and would release a new update to resolve the issue. We can hope it is resolved and our messages on our iPhones are recovered. Now I worry that all those messages that I deleted on my Apple Watch will be restored on that device as well.

for me it clears up text message clutter of having hundreds of messages on my watch. I don’t want all those messages on my watch. Before downing iOS 18, deleting messages separately from the phone was possible, not for me using iPhone 13. I’m hearing it isn’t happening to iPhone 15