Comments on: script to delete all iphone sms messages

By: dd

dd — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:41:50 +0000

Ash, did you ever figure out how to edit or add an individual message in the sms database?

I am able to add or edit messages through the sqllite interface, and they display correctly. BUT, it appears that no new changes to the database are saved, ie. any new messages disappear after I restart the sms app. Any thoughts?

By: Goran

Goran — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:07:57 +0000

I’d like to know it too – I guess it is possible …

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