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Rockdogl1322 Author

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messages are storing on phone rather then iCloud

I recently got a message saying my phone storage is almost full. So I went to check my storage on my phone and it’s **** near full which it never has been, the largest largest amount of storage is being used by messages at 45 GB. I went to check on my iCloud and barely any is being used. Sync my phone is turned on. Storage says 64 GB, however once I enter into it, it says zero bytes is within there and there are no conversations visible. It seems like my phone isn’t storing my messages in iCloud. How do I fix this?

iPhone 13 Pro

Posted on Sep 24, 2022 2:36 PM

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muguy

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Posted on Sep 24, 2022 9:34 PM

Your phone is likely syncing to iCloud. You can verify this using any other device that you sync with iCloud or by checking iCloud storage space use at iCloud.com/settings or on your device at settings > name > iCloud.

iCloud storage is 5, 50, 200 GB or 2 TB, not 64 GB. You’re looking at your device storage.

even if you sync, your messages remain on your device. It might be time to do some cleaning or consider a device with far more storage space.

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