Messages older than 30 days are not deleted

Selected 30 days in the iPhone settings to delete all messages, but they have not been deleted. Why?

This is also happening on my accounts as well including on my iPhone. Oddly enough, my iPad is removing messages older than 30 days but my MacBook and iPhone are not.

Same on iPhone - Set to 1 year but messages older than 1 year are still showing. Any help appreciated.

I have this problem too and it’s driving me crazy! I have linked iPhone and iPad and deletion used to happen perfectly on both. Now it sometimes happens on iPhone, sometimes on the iPad but not necessarily on both. Apparently I have 11,000 messages saved on iCloud, and I’m sure that’s more than 30 days worth!

The same problem am seeing on my iPhone for the last 2 weeks. The messages over 1 year old are not getting deleted automatically.

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Same issue, for months. All my devices are set to delete messages over 30 days, but the message strings go back forever. This is doubly aggravating since Apple keeps prompting me to buy more iCloud storage. No, Apple: I don’t want to buy more storage. I want older messages deleted so I don’t need it.

Same it’s been like this for 2 months for so - I have my set at 30 days and it’s not being automatically deleted

Same with iPhone.

I’m experiencing this too. Tried to delete to save space.

I have messages going back over a year because I had set my messages setting to to keep forever. I changed that setting to keep for 30 days. I powered off powered on my phone but those messages from a year or two ago are still there. When will it delete those?

On iCloud it says that I have 7500 messages and I just synced now and the setting is to delete after 30 days. So it’s not working on any of the platforms my iPhone my iPad or iCloud. They all say delete after 30 days. I find settings in Apple devices to be incredibly confusing and hard to use. So in order to manage storage, I am required to manually delete 7500 messages. That’s nuts.

Good luck at trying to delete them on a iPhone, iPad or Mac or for that matter on iCloud. Been trying for months. RCS is going to really fill up peoples alotted space on iCloud if they start sending a ton of attachments.

I switched to 1 year and then 30 days on my iMac, not my iPhone. I would have expected iPhone to work the same but since I was already on the Mac I used it and the iPhone updated immediately.

If I only had an iPhone and this did not work I might try rebooting it and then trying.

I switched to 1 year and then 30 days on my iMac, not my iPhone. I would have expected iPhone to work the same but since I was already on the Mac I used it and the iPhone updated immediately.

If I only had an iPhone and this did not work I might try rebooting it and then trying.

It drives me nuts how Apple makes it difficult to free up storage. Why do I have to select all photos to delete them rather than a simple "delete all" function? Why do these games have to be played to free up messages space?

They way I understand it, is that you have to stop using you Messages on all your devices by turning iMessage on mobile or Messages on Macs from using iCloud for 28 days. If I am incorrect on this assumption please correct me. It would be a good idea if Apple gave the people the option to delete them on iCloud, even if meant having to enter a different passcode to do so.