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If I delete an imessage from someone in IOS6, the moment i send them a new text/message, the entire chain of previous messages reappears.

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Go to the "Messages" screen where it shows all the contacts you texted and select edit, then delete the entire conversation

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There is no way to clear the history at present.

Apple didn't release an interface or tool to purge the messages that are stored on iCloud. You can only control and delete from the local cache of messages once they have been downloaded. Presumably they eventually get discarded, but there is no web interface or way to ask that the actual messages be deleted at the source.

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are all messages coming into Messages stored on iCloud or just the one's using a .me/.mac/.icloud address? I have multiple accounts in Messages: AIM, iCloud, google/jabber. – Richard Nov 28 '12 at 16:28
Richard - I would ask your specific question since Mark's question mentions only iMessage and iOS 6 - so I take this as only iCloud's service and not jumping to OS X and that Messages app (which only on OS X can also serve as the old iChat for several other messaging services). – bmike♦ Nov 28 '12 at 16:30
True enough bmike. Frankly, I've never cared enough about it to sort it out but I did relate to the question (the more general Messages question I mistook this question for) so posted. Thanks for the correction. – Richard Nov 29 '12 at 11:55
Also - here is how the other side of deletion works... apple.stackexchange.com/questions/56671/… – bmike♦ Dec 29 '12 at 17:19

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