re: "message" in iCloud storage

In my iCloud storage, messages takes up 2.4GB of storage. My problem is I do not have messages toggled to back up to iCloud. What "messages" could this be?

Posted on Dec 26, 2020 4:39 PM

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Posted on Dec 27, 2020 11:31 AM

Try going to Settings > Name > iCloud > Manage Storage > Messages > Disable & Delete to see if it'll take care of that.

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Dec 30, 2020 7:41 AM in response to zinacef

YES ! that worked for me! I have been trying to free up old backup data for about an hour or two. Thank you !!

But ... now that the messages are gone, I should be able to turn the Messages back on to back up, and yet they all come back when I do. So obviously iCloud is retaining the messages that I just disabled and deleted.

I have literally deleted from the device ALL of my messages prior to any of the above steps



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Dec 30, 2020 9:26 AM in response to smfor3

smfor3 wrote:

Thanks so much! That did free up my iCloud space. Strange part was I didn’t have my messages set up to be sent to the cloud (& they were not), however messages were in the cloud storage. Oh well fixed now!

You're most welcome.

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