On your iMessages if someone sent you an audio messages and after sometime iMessages keeps disappearing and you have missed the audio message that you have received on iMessage then you can easily stop iMessages audio messages from disappearing by make these simple changes on your iPhone 13, 14, 12 or any iPhone on any iOS 15, 16 or 17 etc.
How Long Do Audio Messages Stay on iMessage?
Audio messages on iMessages stay up to 2 minutes if you have set message expiry to 2 minutes and if you set message expiry to never then iMessages wont delete after 2 minutes or they will not delete for never until you manually delete audio messages or voice messages on iPhone 14, 13, 12 etc
These below steps will help you stop iMessages disappearing on iPhone or iPad as well.
Stop Audio Messages From Disappearing on iMessage on iPhone 13, 14
Follow below iMessaging tips and tricks and stop audio messages disappearing from iMessages.
Step 1: Open Settings on iPhone
Step 2: Scroll down and Tap on Messages
Step 3: Tap on Expire
Step 4: Under expire set the option to Never and tap on it.
That’s it, once you set message expire to Never then iMessage wont disappear never and if you have set message expire to 2 minutes then messages will expire after 2 minutes.
Why does iMessage Voice Messages Keep Disappearing?
If you have set the iMessages or Message expiry to 2 minutes then iMessage keeps disappearing after 2 minutes and you need to set message expiry to Never in messages -> Expiry -> Set it to Never.
Do iMessage voice messages disappear before being read
No! Voice messages or audio messages won’t disappear after you read them and audio messages disappear if you have set expiry of messages to disappear after 2 minutes.
How do i Prevent Voice Messages From Getting Deleted on iPhone
You Need to go to settings -> Messages -> Expiry and Set it to Never instead of 2 minutes and Audio or voice message will not delta after 2 minutes.