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Browsing through my Messages on my iPhone 7+, I recently found a thread with no name, no number, and no message body. However when I click the ⓘ in the top right corner, I get the options to Send My Current Location and Stop Sharing My Location.
I do not currently have my location shared with anyone, and seeing Stop Sharing My Location is a little scary.
Has this happened to anyone? What would cause this? Thanks for the help!
Go to settings on the iPhone. Go to the 'Messages' settings. And select Receive At.
See what it says there. It should be your phone number not Apple ID or email.
If you have a Apple email listed. You can remove it by.
Clicking the 'Apple ID youremail@me.com'
You will get a popup which lets sign out thus removing the mac email address.
My experience is you cannot actually delete an iMessage once and have it delete elsewhere.
You can only delete the local cached copy of a message to suppress it being showed/stored on that one device. If you turn off iMessage and turn it back on, you will see the messages from iCloud come back whether you deleted a message or not.
Best Answer
This could be a corrupted Messages database. If you have your texts set to expire after a certain amount of time (under Settings → Messages → Keep Messages), your message threads would normally get emptied out, although the number would remain at the top.
You can find out for certain whether you’re sharing your location with anybody by going into Settings → Personal Profile (at the very top) → iCloud → Share My Location. If the list there is empty you should be fine, though you might still want to Stop Sharing My Location to see if an error/change occurs.
The Personal Profile submenu exists in iOS 10.3 and later. Otherwise just directly scroll down to iCloud after opening Settings.