With my old Moto e5+ phone, which I'm pretty sure used Google
Messages, I could open a conversation, long-press several texts one
at a time, then tap the Delete icon. That doesn't work with my
Samsung Galaxy A54, which I'm certain is using Google Messages. As
soon as I long-press a second text, the first one stops being
highlighted.
It took a couple of Google searches, so I want to share the solution,
in case anyone else is as clueless as I was: long-press one message,
then tap (NOT long-press) the additional messages one at a time, then
the Delete icon.
I don't know if this is a change in Samsung's UI, or a change in
Google Messages, but once I know the secret I like it better this
way.
Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
With my old Moto e5+ phone, which I'm pretty sure used Google
Messages, I could open a conversation, long-press several texts one
at a time, then tap the Delete icon. That doesn't work with my
Samsung Galaxy A54, which I'm certain is using Google Messages. As
soon as I long-press a second text, the first one stops being
highlighted.
It took a couple of Google searches, so I want to share the solution,
in case anyone else is as clueless as I was: long-press one message,
then tap (NOT long-press) the additional messages one at a time, then
the Delete icon.
I don't know if this is a change in Samsung's UI, or a change in
Google Messages, but once I know the secret I like it better this
way.
I don't know either, but I think it's a change in Google Messages,
because the Samsung UI, at least for the Samsung Messages app, is
totally different:
Long-press on a message only opens a menu for that message (which
includes Delete, but that *does* a delete, not mark for delete).
To delete multiple messages you tap the trashcan in the upper right,
which then shows a tick-circle before all messages and you can
tick/untick messages and then tap the trashcan at the bottom.
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