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icloud messages

  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. C

    iCloud [17.2 Beta 3] thousands of messages (can’t delete)

    Hey there. Using 17.2 Beta 3 and there a tones of messages shown in and on iCloud only. I can’t delete them in my device and there are none shown anymore. Anyone knows how to fix this?
  3. J

    All Devices Messages App Not Showing Content iOS 13/macOS, just dates, iCloud Messages

    I have been having an issue with the messages app in iOS 13 after syncing with iCloud messages. One day, I woke up and all of my messages were gone - the app was showing blank. So I erased the iPhone (iPhone X), and restored from my backup and all of the messages re-downloaded from iCloud to the...
  4. 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...
  5. J

    Another iCloud messages question

    hello, sorry if this has been asked look around and cannot find it. I was eagerly awaiting 11.4 to save storage space on my pretty full devices. My iPhone has 3-4gb of messages. After installing 11.4 and enabling iCloud messages and all messages syncing to the cloud and appearing in my iCloud...
  6. Spooner83

    iCloud messages iOS 12

    So, since we have to wait for iOS 12 to finally get iCloud messages, are you going to be satisfied or will the hype have lost you since you had to wait forever and a day to get the feature?