Comments on: script to delete all iphone sms messages

By: ash

ash — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:38:32 +0000

Is there any way to change the text and date of a particular SMS in sms.db?

By: Gene Oden

Gene Oden — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:34:39 +0000

you just need to define a sqlite user-defined function named “read” which returns a 0 or 1 based on whether the message was read. see the “message_read()” function above for an example

By: ash

ash — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:12:20 +0000

Hi Gene, how do I get past the read error? Im willing to install python. Cheers

By: dan smith

dan smith — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:26:52 +0000

woah, my name’s dan smith and I’m also fustrated I can’t bulk delete my iphone sms’s.

By: Gene Oden

Gene Oden — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:10:33 +0000

yeah, the call history database is at:

/var/mobile/Library/CallHistory/call_history.db

its also an sqlite database file

By: Shikhar

Shikhar — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:11:08 +0000

Is there any way to access call history?

By: Gene Oden

Gene Oden — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:50:47 +0000

which editor are you using? it might be tough to setup so it can properly edit sms.db because it needs to define that ‘read’ function with sqlite before the edits will work.

are you copying sms.db to your pc & running the editor there? i could probably write a quick script to do what you want if you don’t mind installing python on your pc.

By: netuser

netuser — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:32:23 +0000

I am having same problem when i want to delte or insert in sms.db with a gui sqlite databae editor

i get hte error :

SQL error: no such function: read

I know nothing about programming and havent understood anything posted by author, is their any easy way to do it please ? My database is corrupted i think becuase of last SMS received, and i cant use SMS app in my iphone, i need to delte some last SMS from database

Anyone have solution how to delete them please ?

thanks in advance

By: netuser

netuser — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:30:25 +0000

SQL error: no such function: read

By: FxChiP

FxChiP — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:47:33 +0000

Hey, just wanted to let you know that grabbing this script and modifying it helped me a *lot* with a very similar issue (my phone was flooded with 100+ SMS!). I basically made it delete if a certain word (which no one else ever said to me) was found in the SMS message rather than just deleting them all. Lo and behold, I reload SMS, and I still have every other message except for the ones that I got flooded with! Thanks very much for posting this. :)