How to Stop Video Messages from Expiring on the iPhone 5

Your iPhone 5 received an interesting feature when you updated to iOS 8. This feature allows you to quickly send audio or video messages by tapping and holding the camera button in the Messages app. The default setting will have these video messages delete from your conversation history after two minutes.

But if you decide that you would rather keep video messages indefinitely, then you can adjust the settings on the Messages menu so that these video messages never expire.

Prevent Expiration of iPhone 5 Videos in iOS 8

The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 5 using the iOS 8 operating system. Video message expiration was not added until iOS 8, and is not available on earlier versions of the operating system.

Step 1: Open the Settings menu.

open the settings menu

Step 2: Scroll down and select the Messages option.

open the messages menu

Step 3: Scroll down and touch the Expire button under Video Messages.

change video message expiration time

Step 4: Select the Never button.

select the never option

Now that you know how to stop video messages from expiring on your iPhone 5, you won’t need to worry about them getting deleted automatically.

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