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messages in icloud

  1. D

    Device keeps filling storage with iCloud messages unecessarily

    This is happening to a friend of mine for the second time, can't find a solution. She went from a 256 iPhone where she was using 60GB total storage to a 128GB iPhone. she has somewhere over 100GB of messages/attachments stored in iCloud. Some months ago when she initially did this, the phone...
  2. H

    Transfer Messages to iPhone from Another iPhone??

    Somehow accidentally deleted a family members Messages history - 8yrs of Messages - from my main iPhone, which unfortunately was connected to iCloud so across all Macs, etc the same history was instantly deleted. Can't believe that Apple doesn't have a "are you sure" extra step before deleting...
  3. ID_Field_Blank

    All Devices Images in iMesssage in iCloud

    Hello Please can someone help me understand iMessages in iCloud? It's driving me nuts - especailly photos and attachments. My understanding of it... 1. Once it's enabled it syncs all chats and media to any Apple device logged into the same icloud account 2. This includes media / attachments /...
  4. MJedi

    Managing Messages

    Hello all, I need to clean up older messages on my iPhone temporarily. So, I disabled Messages in iCloud on my iPhone, but kept it enabled on my iPad. Sometime in the future, I will enable Messages in iCloud on the iPhone. In between those times, I will have received other messages on both...
  5. I

    messages in iCloud settings bug

    Hi Hope all is well just wanted to ask something about messages in iCloud. The feature works amazingly well and I love it but. Just one thing is bugging me. When I go to iCloud settings - Manage Storage- Messages and click into the messages I see a “Conversations” view with my conversations and...
  6. thewhitehart

    How exactly does Messages in iCloud work in regards to SMS/MMS?

    There doesn't seem to be any consistency at all in syncing SMS/MMS between my devices. I have an iPhone, iPad, and Mac. They all have Messages in iCloud activated. I assumed that "Text Message Forwarding" needed to be setup on my iPhone for SMS/MMS to sync between the devices. I had a problem...
  7. S

    icloud message sync is so confusing.

    The somewhat recent icloud message sync feature seems to be buggy and confusing. How come when I go to icloud settings and attempt to turn off messages it tells me "messages have not been fully downloaded to this iphone" every single time. Every Single Time. What does that exactly mean? Because...
  8. J

    Messages in iCloud Nightmare

    Hello everyone! Hope you are all having a wonderful day so far! The Problem I recently (about 1 month ago) erased my MacBook's SSD and reinstalled macOS High Sierra 10.13.6. I then proceeded to transfer my iMessages from a backup of the Messages that I made and I had no problems so far. The...
  9. J

    "Uploading to iCloud is paused" *BETA* Messages in iCloud issue

    Is anyone getting this message in the messages app and it telling you that you have to connect to wifi and plug the phone in in order to keep uploading messages to iCloud? I am plugged in and connected to wifi. I have tried turning the feature on and off and rebooting the iPhone. iPhone 8 Plus...