Does "Auto Delete Old Conversations" on iPhone delete them in iCloud as well?
I honestly have looked EVERYWHERE to get this answer and have been unsuccessful. ALL the answers say this:
"If you have iCloud enabled, when you delete messages on one device, it deletes them on other your other synced devices."
Yes, I get that. But NOWHERE does it say whether or not it deletes these messages -- permanently -- in iCloud. I've done web searches, Apple forums searches, etc., to no avail.
So here's my situation and question:
I'd like to enable "Auto Delete Old Conversations" on my iPhone 8 (iOS 14) to clear out 8GB of old messages over 1 year old. I have iCloud backups enabled for all my devices. I understand that it will delete the conversations (over one year old) on my iPhone as well as sync those deletions with my other devices.
What NO SUPPORT CONVERSATIONS explain is whether it will delete those conversations over one year old on iCloud as well. Will my messages that have been "Auto Delete Old Conversations" older than one year be gone forever, or does iCloud actually store the entire history, but just sync one year's worth of messages across devices?
Please DO NOT reply with a post about syncing across devices. That's not my question. My question is about iCloud and how it stores histories.
iPhone 8, iOS 14