Deleting photos in my messages not deleting from icloud

Hi willypan5,

It sounds like the "Top Conversations" is not containing the media which the Messages app shows is still present.

See if you can locate those items by following these steps:

Find attachments from a conversation 

1. Open the message.

2. Tap the name of the contact at the top of the message. If you're using iOS 14 or earlier, or iPadOS, tap the Info button .

3. You'll see Photos, Links, Documents, and more. Touch and hold an image or attachment to show options like Save, Copy, Share, and Delete.

From your conversations page in iOS 16.2 and later, you can also search to find photos in Messages based on their content, like a dog, car, person, or text.

From: Use Messages on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

You can also check on your iPhone in the Photos app > Recently Deleted, to see if any deleted photos went there instead.

Take care!

Hi willypan5,

We will be happy to help you out. In order to find what is taking up iCloud storage space, you'll need to follow the steps outlined in Manage your iCloud storage - Apple Support

Specifically:

"Make more space available in iCloud

If you run out of iCloud storage, your device won’t back up to iCloud, new photos and videos won't upload to iCloud Photos, and iCloud Drive, other iCloud apps, and messages won't stay up to date across your devices. And you also won't be able to send or receive emails with your iCloud email address.

You can free up storage in iCloud by deleting content that you're not using:

• Reduce the size of your iCloud Backup
• Delete photos in iCloud Photos
• Delete folders or files in iCloud Drive
• Delete texts and attachments in Messages
• Delete messages and manage Mail
• Delete voice memos

Before you delete anything, you might want to archive or make copies of the information that you store in iCloud."

We hope this helps you.

Cheers.