My iPhone storage is full. Most of the storage is taken up by about 80gb in messages. Right now in my iCloud back up settings "Messages" are set to "off". If I switch that to on will the local storage be reduced? Or will it simply back up all those messages to the cloud while keeping my local storage at 80gb?
I have over 1tb available in the cloud, so I would rather store that data there.
iPhone 15
If you have messages deselected in your iCloud backup, the messages are. not included in your device backup.
If you enable messages in iCloud, then messages will offload attachments and sync messages across your devices. Messages are then synced, not backed up.
You should experience some space savings in that attachments are offloaded to iCloud from your device.
So if I enable messages in iCloud will space currently being taken up locally on my phone be freed up?
Messages in iCloud: Reduce iPhone local storage?
