How delete messages that appear in Phone Link but are not on my phone?

Thanks for the thoughts.

I’m running a Moto 5g Note and WIN 11 laptop.

What I’ve had to do is disable the link, clean up the messages on my phone, and then restore the link. This will catch a lot of the spam before it gets over, but far from everything.

MS says it’s a feature, not a bug, but I think I know a creepy crawler when I see one.

Sorry, I kept getting errors when I tried to submit my response

I have run both the Samsung Messages app and the Google Messages at the same time. They even have the same "Messages" name. I switched back and forth and I'm pretty sure the messages followed, you just have to set one as default, like your browser. You could install Google Messages and then see if there's any in archive or the Blocked folders, delete them and then go back to your preferred app. Otherwise I think you'll just have to get used to the extra messages on Windows Phone Link.

I'm using the native moto text app which has worked fine for my purposes thus far. It wasn't until I tried deleting some extraneous messages from a parking service on the Phone Link that I discovered the non-delete option issue. These delete from the phone without a problem. It's just the WIN11 app on my laptop where the problem occurs.

Actually, I got spoiled with the old native Verizon app years ago that I found quite usable - until they quit supporting it and dropped it altogether. That was one of the reasons among many that I got rid of VZW.

On your phone, are you using the phone's app (Motorola Messages) or the Google Messages app? If you're using the phone's app, go to Google Play and download/install Messages by Google/Google Messages. You can run both at the same time but one will be the default. I find Google Messages to be a much better messaging app