Do you want to keep your favorite messages sent by your near and dear ones on your phone’s inbox, but are not able to do so? Then here are a few simple steps following which you can easily store more SMS messages in your inbox than the usual capacity.

A pre-defined number of text messages can be stored in the default memory of every phone. The data sheets of the cell phones show how many messages in total are there. So, before following these steps make sure that your phone has different folders in which it allocates the SMS memory.

Any standard handset has the capacity to store at least 500 SMSs in its memory. But it happens that the “Memory Full” message is displayed even when the Inbox has stored just 200 messages. This happens because the phone generally allocates 200 messages for its Inbox folder, another 500 messages for the Drafts folder, yet another 50 SMS for the Outbox folder and finally 200 messages for the Sent Items folder. Try storing more messages in your Inbox, but you won’t succeed.

But there’s a key to every lock. There is a trick, which will enable you to store 50 additional messages in your Inbox, apart from the 200 messages already present. This is not enough but something is better than nothing.

The simplest thing to do is to store some of your messages of the Inbox folder in the Drafts folder. In such a case, the Drafts folder will become only a storage means and you will not be able to use it for other purposes, such as saving some important note or half-written messages.

Select a message, which you want to store, in the Inbox folder. Click on ‘Save to Drafts’ option. This option is generally found on the left hand side soft key that opens up the ‘Options’ menu. In some phones, you will have to choose the ‘Move’ option from the ‘Options’  menu and then move the message to the Drafts folder.

The entire process is just 5 to 6 seconds long. In case, you have a phone where you can select the messages at one go then ‘Move’ them together to the Drafts folder, you will save time. Otherwise, manually transferring each and every message by selecting it every time and sending it to Drafts folder sometimes gets exasperating. Don’t forget to delete the moved messages from the Inbox, where they remain even after they have been moved.