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I am trying to assess previous photos I have sent my friends or family. But none of them are loading.


when I click the info button under messages and usually that is where all the pictures will it , the message pops up “shared links, photos, and more will be shown once massages finishes indexing”


does anyone know what that means?!?

below is an attached picture of the message

iPhone XS

Posted on Oct 5, 2019 9:32 AM

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Posted on Oct 11, 2019 8:37 AM

I don’t even use iCloud. I just turned it on and then off and it sound downloading messages from iCloud but I have like maybe 1gb of messages on iCloud. I have my messages set to “keep forever”. I have thousands of pictures and messages on my phone. I can search “sorry” and the text message of my Roomate apologizing to me that I got 4 hours ago won’t even show up. I have free unlimited google drive space to save all of my photos and anything important. I wish Apple can just fix this issue. It is lowkey just a thing they did to get everyone to buy iCloud storage.

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