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How do message attachments take up phone storage?

 title: 'Are Your Old Text Messages Slowing Down Your Android Phone? - SlashGear'

Message attachments are primarily multimedia files—such as photos, videos, GIFs, and audio clips—that are sent along with text messages, and these files can add up quickly over time[1]. Although plain text messages are very small (often just a few kilobytes for several paragraphs), once you start including media, each attachment can be significantly larger, meaning that even a moderate number of messages with media may consume a considerable amount of storage space on your phone[1]. On iPhones, for example, attachments are mostly media files like photos and videos that can accumulate and use massive amounts of space if not cleaned up periodically[6]. Similarly, when message conversations include a lot of these heavy files, the overall storage used by the Messages app can grow to several gigabytes, which might eventually slow down the device or limit available memory[7].


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