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 "thread."
Threads allow you to see all the messages you exchanged
with a recipient in one place.
1. From a 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.
• Font size: Set a default font size for messages.
• Settings: Configure Messaging settings.

Message Settings

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