T-Mobile does not retain the message content, but hangs onto your text details for "pre-paid: 2 years; post-paid: 5 years. Verizon keeps your IP session information for 1 year but your browsing history "IP desitination information" for 90 days. If public IP, not retained. Picture retention is a bit iffy for some as in "contact provider," according to the handy DOJ chart for law enforcement. However T-Mobile stores pictures "online and are retained until deleted or service is canceled.
One of the questions this chart for law enforcement raises is why aren't data retention policies revealed in cell phone company user agreements? To avoid this problem, you can make use of iMessage, a form of communication between two iPhones. Do not simply delete text messages from your phone. Text messages will be stored even after that. Your phone has limited space but it can still store approximately 1, text messages. It completely deletes old text messages after some time, but for the infrequent texter, messages from years and years ago could still be stored away.
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