Those who use iMessage often and are currently running on iOS 8 have probably realized that the problems and solutions we gave to some annoying news have not been enough. In an attempt to improve the messaging application, Apple introduced a way in which users video and audio messages were deleted from our history, without the possibility of recovering them after a certain time that came by default and that the user can change.
However, with Software updates, we do not always realize these details and in most cases it is difficult to find the route to deactivate the news. In this specific case, we want to talk to you precisely about the problem posed by the automatic deletion of these multimedia files, which although it is designed to avoid taking up extra space, is not the best option for users who want the complete archive of messages they receive.
I insist that this is a problem related only to iMessage in the case of iOS 8, and that deactivate it to restore the previous option by default, in which everything is saved in our device is simple. You just have to go to Settings> Messages. When following this route make sure that the options of Keep messages, Audio expiration and video expiration are activated, in the first case as always, and in the other two as never before. In this way, you will eliminate the option that Apple included by default to avoid space problems on devices with less storage memory capacity, but that were causing you problems by becoming unrecoverable files without having asked your prior consent, since the option it is configured that way as standard.
Were you worried about this detail in iOS 8 when using iMessage Or do you prefer the option that Apple includes by default?
