IMessage in IOS 8

I don't understand why I can't find posts about IOS 8 iMessage problems. I have had a great deal of difficulty with iMessage since I downloaded IOS 8. I have an iPhone 5S and a iPad mini. I have been having problems on both. I also have an iPad (New iPad) that still has IOS 7 on it and I have no problems with iMessage at all on it. The biggest problem for me is the trash can in iMessage. When I want to select messages to delete, sometimes the trash can is there after I select them, and sometimes it is not. It is very frustrating to select a bunch of messages and then not have a trash can to send them to. I have gone to the Apple store and they completely reset my iPhone. I lost everything but contacts which they preserved for me. I was out-of-town so I couldn't back up my iPhone before I went to the Apple store. It didn't help. It helps for a time or two and then the problem returns. I push the two buttons on my phone until the Apple logo appears and that temporarily gives me a trash can, but not for long. It is obvious to me since I have two different items with this problem which started when I downloaded IOS 8, and since I have an iPad with IOS 7 that doesn't have the problem, that the problem is IOS 8, yet no one is talking about this. Maybe I am the only person who selects messages to delete! I would love it if Apple gave us a an iMessage archive where I could put messages I want to keep and could then do a "delete all" on the remaining messages. It takes too much time to select messages to delete, but I haven't seen any sign of that occurring. If there are others out there with this problem please let me know. Thanks.

What I did to fix the problem is: Go to your contacts and create a contact for yourself. Make sure you enter your name, your phone number and your apple ID email address. Then go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > scroll down to CONTACTS then select "My Info" > select the contact for yourself. Hopefully this works for you!

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