iPhone 15 updated to iOS 17.2 and thereafter message syncing with iCloud is paused.

Same. Still the same issue.

Same issue I have the iPhone 15 Pro

Same issue. Very frustrating.

I just got a new phone today and am having the same issue. How has apple not mastered this by now?

I don't know it's amazing to me but I probably wasted the price of the iPhone itself $1700 on all my time with the bugs / glitches with this. Thanks Apple.

Feb 1 and mine still isn’t fixed. Updated to 17.3. Still no go.

This is exactly what is not working. You push it and then it goes right back to pausing it.

Same here.

But first, Update iOS 17.2 destroyed my iPhone's Recent Calls history. After I restored the phone from an encrypted Mac backup made right before the iOS update, Recent Calls history was restored correctly, but Messages has been stuck syncing going on almost 24 hours.

The phone has been on WiFi, charging and locked overnight. In iCloud Settings on the phone I have manually restarted Sync Now, signed out and back in to both iCloud and Messages, turned Messages off and back on, force restarted the phone. There is no difference other than the status of the number of messages syncing has gone from 88 to 99 to 109.

Messages seem to be sending and receiving normally, but some recent exchanges within recent conversations are missing. The missing exchanges do show up in Messages synced to iCloud on other devices, so the missing exchanges are present in iCloud and being synced on other devices, just not on the device updated to iOS 17.2.

Omg yes! Thats what Ive been telling everyone. Ok let me explain. So I manually delete my texts everday. I am aware it takes up to 4 days for them to be permantly deleted on the servers end. Well since I updated to ios 17.2 my icloud storage keeps increasing not decreasing and I believe its because texts arent being deleted on the servers end. Just my opinion. I also noticed that messages in icloud (its a new feature in ios 17.2) the toggle wont turn on or off. I have mine off but I noticed when I went to turn it on it didnt move. So Im wondering if this is why the messages are being deleted off the server of the icloud storage. I already had to buy more storage today just to be safe. Im about to delete everything from my phone to free up space and I dont even have much on my phone. Its a brand new phone too. Im so glad I came accross this thread as Ive been posting about it all week on here.

I think I'll just wait for them to fix itself automatically on the server end. I already deleted all my texts manually as I do everyday so I feel like this is a bug on the server end with them not deleting them. Itll fix itself eventually but dont know when.

YES this is what I do. I go to settings>messages> toggle keep messages for 30 days. I toggle it on everyday so it like clears it from the server end. So I click 1 yr then click 30 days so it clears itself from the server end. Its def a bug on the server end and in ios 17.2 Im thinking

Not sure but after speaking to many ppl at apple support I think theres a major issue with the messages app because I think thats whats causing my own issue with the backup storage bug increasing. I noticed in the iphone storage the message app stayed at 70mb for a week then today it recalloberated to 101mb (which I know it goes up and down depending how you use it) so Im thinking thats whats causing the issue in the icloud backup storage because I have deleted texts but I dont think its recallobrated in the cloud perhaps. I hope they fix it but I just keep reporting it.

Having the same issue with my iPhone 15 Pro. Syncing is constantly paused. Not having issues with my MBP or iPad. I've also noticed that messages I've deleted from over the summer (and should be deleted on the servers as I only keep for 30 days) came back onto my iPhone. Tried all the assorted tricks with Apple Support and after completely wiping my phone and setting it up fresh, I've decided to turn off Messages in iCloud for 30 days for my entire message cache and database to be completely deleted (as per a final last ditch effort from Support.) I'll set it up fresh on Jan 24th and see if that does the trick.

This is happening to me also on a 14 pro after I did the update to the 17.2 whatever it’s called iOS. I also have a problem with the default alert time to exchange it does not work and I have to toggle to a different alert time if I want my reminders to show up on outlook and a bell to sound to remind me of the event.