Keeping messages forever on one device but only 1 year on another

My iPad (7th gen) only has 32 GB of storage but my iPhone (SE 2nd gen) has 128 GB. I need to free up some storage on my iPad to install an operating system update as it needs about 6GB of free space to do the update. If I change the message retention time on my iPad to only keep 1 year of messages and messages are set to synch with iCloud will I loose messages.

I still want my messages delivered to both devices (iPad & iPhone).

iPad, iPadOS 17

Posted on Apr 19, 2024 2:23 PM

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