Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson explains the steps to declutter text messages on a Mac or iPad. Apple offers ways to do this more efficiently.

For many of the best chat apps this isn’t a problem, since you can just delete the message for everyone. Google Messages isn’t one of those apps, but it sounds like it won’t be that way for long.

Click the new text link that reads Select all conversations in Inbox. Every single email in your Gmail inbox will now be selected. Click the Delete icon. When you delete an email from your Gmail ...