> incompetent enough to believe that deleting text messages affects storage.
Do you think that message somehow magically don't have a size? Phones aren't able to receive messages when they have no storage for that. I have been regularly deleting messages for that reason.
Depends on the phone. The phones I had this problem with don't do more complicated things than "receive simple text messages", so they also don't have the storage for more. I guess when you do shady contracts you would use a burner phone, so it's quite likely that this was the case here.
A few seconds of video on a recent phone is quickly the size of thousands of text messages. So the size of a text message is basically zero. So deleting text messages for the sake of storage is ridiculous
I'm not saying that text messages don't need storage space. I'm saying that they require so little that it's pointless to delete text messages. And it seems like you are deliberately trying to not acknowledge that. Are you now going to say that you once deleted a text message and saw 1 kb storage freed or what
And I am saying that this is highly subjective. In fact there are phones that require you to regularly delete message, so you can receive new messages. This can also lead to a habit that persist even when using a newer phone.
I also delete kb-sized files on my computer, even when my partition size is measured in GB.
Do you think that message somehow magically don't have a size? Phones aren't able to receive messages when they have no storage for that. I have been regularly deleting messages for that reason.