Q: iMessage not syncing older conversation.
My conversation were not syncing from my iPhone into my iMessage on my macbook air. So I tried deleting all conversations on my mac and re-syncing by signing out, rebooting and signing in again. But now only the messages I sent after signing in are being displayed. Is there any way to resync the older converations.
MACBOOK DETAILS: AIR 13" mid 2013, OS X Yosemite 10.10.2, 1.3GHz i5
iPhone DETAILS: IPHONE 6, iOS 8.2
The screenshots show only the two latest conversation on my mac, only with the most recent messages.
MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), null
Posted on Mar 28, 2015 10:48 AM
Hi,
The answer is No.
Each iMessages is duplicated for each device you have registered and sent to that device uniquely.
Once they have been pushed to the device and accepted they are deleted from the server.
If for instance your iPhone loses power and your Mac gets the iMessage, the iPhone will pick them up later when it has power.
However whilst the Mac has received and it is then deleted (for the Mac) at the server and the iPhone "Copy" may still be on there but the Mac (if you deleted it) cannot access the iPhone "Copy".
The iMessages are pushed at the devices involved and there is no Download or "Fetch" like mail.
If you did not make a back up of your device before you did this there is not recovery.
Not even the iMessages server has them.
9:18 pm Saturday; March 28, 2015
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Posted on Apr 1, 2015 9:32 PM




