Managing Messages; Message Settings - Samsung Galaxy S III User Manual

Managing Messages

Messages that you send and receive to the same contact,
number, or address are grouped together as a
"conversation." Threads allow you to see all the messages
you exchanged with a recipient in one place.
1. From the Home screen, touch
2. Message threads display by contact, number, or
address. While viewing message threads, you have
these options:
3. Touch and hold a thread to choose options, including:
• Delete: Erase the entire message thread.
• View Contact / Add to Contacts: View the contact record, or
save the sender/recipient's information.
• Add to spam numbers: Lists this phone number as a spam
number and sends future messages from this number to the
Spam messages folder.
4. Touch Menu for options, including:
• Search: Enter characters to search messages and recipients.
• Delete threads: Touch message threads to mark them for
erasure, or touch Select all to mark all message threads.
• Draft messages: Displays a list of drafted messages.
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• Locked messages: Displays list of messages that are locked
to prevent deletion.
• Scheduled messages: Displays list of messages scheduled for
later delivery.
• Spam messages: Displays a list of spam messages.
• Settings: Configure Messaging settings.

Message Settings

Configure settings for message storage, delivery, or alerts.
1. From the Home screen, touch
2. Touch Menu, and touch Settings for options:
• General settings:
–
Delete old messages: When enabled, messages are
automatically erased when storage reaches default limits. When
disabled, the phone prompts you to delete old messages to
make room.
–
Text message limit: Set the number of SMS messages per
conversation.
–
Multimedia message limit: Set the number of MMS
messages per thread.
–
Text templates: Text templates are phrases that you can add
to your messages. Use a pre-loaded text template, or create
your own.
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