Hi Donald, To delete a Contact:
Go into Contacts Find the Contact you want to delete and double tap on it Now find the Edit button at the top right of the screen Now do a 4-finger tap on the bottom half on the phone, this is the gesture which takes you to the last screen element which is the "Delete Contact" button. Note: Sometimes the 4-finger tap may stop just short of that, if you are not on the Delete Contact button just swipe right until you get to it or you could just swipe right all the way to begin with until you find it. As I said, if you are in the Contacts app, it will be the very last thing on the screen once you are in Edit mode. As far as deleting text messages is concerned, if you are running iOS 6 you could just use the new method to delete emails, text messages, songs etc. If you are in the main window of the Messages app just flick down or up with a single finger and you should hear Voiceover say "Delete", now just double tap anywhere on the screen. If you don't want to use this gesture, there is a difference whether you delete an entire conversation or whether you want to delete individual messages in a conversation. In order to delete an entire conversation, make sure you are in the main list of conversations and that you are not in a conversation which will be the case if you double tap on it. Find the Edit button in this case it is at the top left of the screen. You know you are on the right screen if you have the Compose button at the top right. Once you double tap on Edit, a "Delete switch button" appears beside each conversation. Double tap on it and you will be asked to confirm, double tap again and the conversation is gone. Once you deleted all the conversations you want to delete, double tap on "Done" at the top left of the screen. Basically, the Edit button will become the Done button when you double tap it and when you double tap Done it will once again turn into Edit. If you want to only delete individual messages, double tap on the Conversation so you are on the screen where you can read the individual messages. Buddy message, by the way, refers to any message you receive from another person whether it is an iMessage or regular text message. If it is an iMessage, your own messages will be identified as "Your iMessage", if it is a text message, it will be "Your text message". Any reply is always "Buddy message". Now you have an Edit button at the top left of the screen (opposite from where it is when you delete entire conversations). Now double tap on all the individual messages, both your own and the buddy messages, you want to delete. Voiceover will say "selected" before each one after you double tap it. Let's say you do this for 5 messages, now check the bottom left of the screen and you will find "Delete, 5 button". Double tap this and those messages will be deleted from the conversation. There is also a "Clear All" button at the top left of the screen after you double tap on Edit. This will clear all messages from a conversation, but it will leave the entry for that person in your Conversations list. Good luck, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donald L. Roberts Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 9:14 AM To: Viphone Subject: Deleting text messages and contacts Since I bought an iPhone 4, I just activated it on Page Plus which runs on the Verizon network. In attempting to set up a contact, I screwed it up so badly that I want to delete this contact and start over. Please, someone, tell me how to do this. Second, using Skype, I sent a couple of text messages to my iPhone. They were received and read just fine, but I cannot figure out how to delete them. When I double tap on edit, the delete button is dimmed. What am I doing wrong? My last help request is a question. Does the term "buddy message" refer to a text message which was sent from a non iPhone sender such as an android phone or Skype or some other type of phone? Thanks. Don Roberts -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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