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IMessage Upload Not Working Correctly

I recently set my iPhone 10 Plus' year to 2026 to mess around with my friends. Even though my message save setting is "Forever," when I set it back to 2021, all of my messages were wiped. In a panic, I went to my MacBook Pro to see if I could transfer the texts back. I purchased a 100gb subscription of iCloud to sync the messages. However, when I go to sync the messages to the cloud in Preferences, I get a loading bar entitled "Downloading Messages From iCloud" and then one entitled "Uploading Messages to iCloud" and then the bar fully disappears (I believe it just stops syncing?). I have about 10gb of messages to push through and my internet is pretty solid. In the single night that I left it to work (I had a macro force syncing the texts all night), it seems that only 30mb of data has been transferred. There is definitely an issue here.

Posted on Mar 15, 2021 1:39 PM

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jdo_apple

Community Specialist

Posted on Mar 17, 2021 9:59 AM

Thank you for reporting the problem to us. We’ve heard reports of the issue you're describing, and it’s currently under review. We don’t have a solution at this time, but recommend that you keep your device up-to-date.

Please feel free to reach out to us again if you need any more help.

Cheers!

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