What’s cool is that the iPhone retains all of these exchanges. You can review
them or resume them at any time by tapping Text on the Home screen. A list
of text message conversations appears; a blue dot indicates conversations
that contain new messages.
The truth is, these listings represent people, not conversations. For example, if
you had a text message exchange with Chris last week, a quick way to send a
new text message (on a totally different subject) to Chris is to open that “conversation”
and simply send a “reply.” The iPhone saves you the administrative
work of creating a new message, choosing a recipient, and so on.
If having these old exchanges hanging around presents a security (or marital)
risk, you can delete it in either of two ways:
From the Text Messages list: The long way: Tap Edit; tap the – button;
finally, tap Delete to confirm.
The short way: Swipe away the conversation. Instead of tapping Edit, just
swipe your fi nger horizontally across the conversation’s name (either direction).
That makes the Delete confi rmation button appear immediately.
From within a conversation’s speech-balloons screen: Tap Clear; tap
Clear Conversation to confirm.
