A close friend has a 16gb iPhone 5 with no available storage. Where is all the storage used? Message history. I&#x27;m not kidding - zero non-default apps, very few photos, message history for presumably the entire time she has had an iOS device which consumes (according to iTunes) over 14gb.<p>The real kicker is Apple has provided no first-party way to extract images from message history.<p>(EDIT: I am aware of the &quot;keep entire message history&quot;&#x2F;&quot;keep 1 year message history&quot; setting - we are trying to extract photos from backup using 3rd party software so we can flip that switch. This is very non-intuitive and requires the use of an external device)