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

Anonymous
2023-09-02T17:00:17+00:00

I have reenabled phone link after not using it for many months. I now have two text messages in phone link that do not exist on my phone. How do I delete them? Thanks.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-10-06T22:04:08+00:00

    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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-06T21:15:26+00:00

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

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-06T21:14:07+00:00

    I have a Samsung S24+ and Lenovo laptop with WIN 11, so we're very close in equipment. I have never been able to delete anything from the WIN side, nothing. I can originate or reply but delete, as far as I know, is only on the phone.

    I have found that anything on the phone side of Phone Link that is in Spam and Blocked or Archived will still show up on the WIN Phone Link with other messages, like they never left.

    I don't know what the political texts are but I have been able to delete anything from the phone side of Phone Link and that eliminates them from the WIN side of Phone Link. I think you may be using the default SAMSUNG MESSAGES app that came with the phone. If so, go to the Play Store and download GOOGLE MESSAGES, then make that the default messaging app. (Your current messages will be visible in the Google Messaging App.)

    Then open it and look for the small "face" on the right side, click on it and it will take you to the menu where you can access the Spam and Archived messages. Go into each section and delete the ones you don't want.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-05T21:51:18+00:00

    Yuhao:

    Been sent texts = messages, that obviously cannot be removed at PC Phone Link. I've followed your specific instructions; both cell phone and laptop are linked - HOWEVER - screen with phone never comes on.

    Cell Phone: Samsung S24 +

    Laptop Lenovo (9DFD9H5T) operating on Win 10.

    Any ideas ? political polling organization has sent these "stay forever" texts/messages - like "forever chemicals".

    Thank you.

    ******@gmail.com

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-09-10T22:29:51+00:00

    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.

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