If I can only restore my iPhone from an iPhone backup, but I have years of information stored in iCloud… how do I ever gain access to that? Where does it live? Sounds like it’s stored there but without any purpose if I can’t restore from iCloud.
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iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 17
If you use messages in iCloud your messages are not part of your device backup. Instead, your messages will sync again when you log Ito your Apple ID. Verify that messages in iCloud is turned on.
If you use messages in iCloud your messages are not part of your device backup. Instead, your messages will sync again when you log Ito your Apple ID. Verify that messages in iCloud is turned on.
Yes, your messages in iCloud will sync with your device. For example, if you get a new device and turn on messages in iCloud, the messages sync to the new device. If you reset an old device, your messages will sync. Most of your media attached to the messages resides in iCloud and is downloaded again when accessed within messages.
What does iCloud back up? - Apple Support
Set up iCloud for Messages on all your devices - Apple Support
Keep your messages up to date with iCloud - Apple Support
When you log into your Apple ID and sync your device your cloud data is available to you on your iPhone.
You would think so. So would I. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. It will only restore from your phones latest backup- not the iCloud’s iMessage storage.
That’s what should happen, and what I explain to Apple support but it does not happen. Seems this is happening to a lot of iPhone owners. The only iMessages that restore are from the iPhone backup, not the iCloud storage.
They are. When Synced my phone drops to 5GB (out of 60 GB of iMessage in iCloud storage).
Surprisingly that’s not the case. The iCloud storage doesn’t sync across devices (confirmed by Apple), but isn’t that the entire purpose of iMessage? Do you have any other ideas?
How to access iCloud iMessage storage?
