How to delete messages on the smartphone Xiaomi Redmi: the complete guide

Owners of Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO smartphones often face the need to make room or just clean up correspondence. The accumulation of junk SMS, advertising mailings and old dialogues not only clutters the interface, but can take up a significant amount of internal memory. Deletion of messages is a basic feature, but in the shell of MIUI or HyperOS it has its own nuances that are useful for every user to know.

There are several ways to get rid of unnecessary correspondence, from deleting individual lines to completely cleaning the message database. The choice of method depends on your goal: whether you need to erase one particular notification or require a total sweep before selling a device. In this guide, we will discuss all the options available, including hidden functions and working with junk SMS.

It is important to understand that the deletion process is irrevocable if no backup was made. Modern Android security systems do not allow you to simply recover deleted data from a standard repository. So before starting a large-scale cleanup, you should make sure that among the messages deleted there are no confirmation codes or important business information.

Delete individual messages and entire dialogues

The easiest way to clean the list is to delete the entire email, open the standard Messages app, which is pre-installed on all smartphones of the brand, find the contact or number from which the unnecessary SMS came in, click on it and hold your finger for 1-2 seconds until the action menu appears or the title color changes.

Once you have the dialogue highlighted, a toolbar will appear at the top of the screen, and you'll see the basket icon here, and clicking on it will completely delete the entire correspondence branch with that subscriber, and the system will ask you to confirm the action to avoid accidental loss of data. If you use Google Messages mode, the algorithm will be similar, but the visual design may differ.

Sometimes you don't want to delete the entire dialog, you just have to delete one particular message within the chain, so open the correspondence, find the right line, and then you pinch it with your finger, and then you select all the messages that you want to delete, and then you press the delete button, which is convenient when there's only one extra notification on the long chain.

⚠️ Attention: Deleting the dialog in the Messages app does not remove it from the spam archive if it was placed there automatically.

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Use the Favorite feature for important SMS codes from banks so you don’t accidentally delete them during a mass cleaning.

Working with the folder “Spam and blocked”

The MIUI shell is equipped with a powerful filter that automatically detects and hides advertising and suspicious SMS. These messages are not displayed in the general list, but are sent to a specialator. To reach them, open the message app and click on the three dots in the upper right corner (or menu button), then select Spam and blocked.

Inside this folder, messages can be stored indefinitely, taking up space, you can delete them selectively or clear the entire folder at once. To do this, click on the "Clear" button or select all messages through the highlight menu, this action will free up space and remove visual noise.

• 🗑️ Click “Clear” to remove all posts from the spam list with one touch.
• 📂 Check this folder regularly, as important confirmation codes from delivery services may get there.
• ⚙️ Set up the filter by adding the desired numbers to the whitelist so that critical SMS messages are not blocked.

Filters can be customized to automate the process, and you can set rules that will automatically delete messages from certain senders or mark them as read, especially for users who often log on to different sites and receive tons of advertising junk.

Mass removal through selection mode

When you need to delete dozens of dialogs at once, the manual method takes too long, in which case mass selection mode helps. In the main window of the Messages app, find the Select button (usually an icon with a tick or dotted square) or just click on any dialog for a long time, and then select "Select all."

Once the highlight mode is activated, you can check the list and tick the dialogs that are to be destroyed, and some versions of the firmware allow you to select messages in groups, such as "select the first 10" or "select all the ones you read," which greatly speeds up the process.

After all the unnecessary items are highlighted, press the delete button. The system can warn you about the number of objects to be removed. Confirm the operation. Remember, it will not be possible to recover the data deleted in this way using standard smartphone tools.

Cleaning Multimedia Investments (MMS)

Messages with pictures, videos and voice notes take up much more space than regular text, which often cause a lack of memory on the device. Deleting text does not always remove the attached file from the cache of the system, so it is important to know how to clean attachments correctly.

For deep cleaning, use the built-in Cleanup tool in the Security app (green zipper icon). Run a scan and the system will find files left behind by applications including MIUI Messaging. In the "Large Files" or "MMS" section, you can see a list of heavy attachments.

You can also go to the Message Store settings. Go to Settings → Apps → All Apps → Messages → Memory. There's a "Clean" or "Memory Management" button that shows how much the attachments weigh. Clearing the cache here is safe and won't delete the dialog texts, but will remove the temporary files.

⚠️ Warning: Clearing the application data (not the cache, but the data) through the Android settings will result in the complete removal of all SMS and app settings!

Using Google Messages on Xiaomi

Many Xiaomi users are switching to Google's standard app (Google Messages) because it supports a modern RCS protocol and has a more user-friendly interface. The deletion process here is slightly different visually, but logically similar. Open the app, pinch the dialog and select the basket icon.

One of the unique features of Google Messages is the ability to delete messages on all devices, so if you're using a web version or sync with a tablet, deleting the correspondence on your phone will delete it there, too, which ensures privacy and cleanliness on all gadgets.

In Google Messages, you can enable automatic deletion of old messages. Go to Settings → RCS Messages (or just Settings) and find “Self-delete old messages.” You can set a limit, for example, to store messages only for the last 3 months or a year.

This feature is extremely useful for those who do not like to carry out manual cleaning, the system will monitor the age of messages and delete those that are over the established time frame, which helps to keep the system clean without user intervention.

Recovery of deleted messages and backup

Before you delete everything, you should think about backing up. Xiaomi smartphones have a built-in Mi Cloud that can save SMS. Go to Settings → Mi Account → Mi Cloud and make sure the Messages switch is active.

When sync is enabled, your messages are saved on the company’s servers. If you accidentally delete an important dialog, you can try to restore it by logging into your account from another device or after resetting your phone’s settings. There are also third-party backup applications, such as SMS Backup & Restore, that save correspondence to an XML file on Google Drive.

• ☁️ Check your sync status regularly in the Mi Cloud.
• 💾 Save important codes in notes or screenshots before deleting.
• 🔄 When changing your phone, make sure to backup SMS on SD-map.

Recovery from the Mi Cloud backup is automatically done when you first set up your phone or manually start recovery in your account settings. Third-party applications require the same software to be installed and authorized in the cloud storage where the backup file is located.

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Regular backup in Mi Cloud is the only guaranteed way to return deleted SMS on Xiaomi smartphones without root rights.

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