Messages in iCloud stuck uploading

Mine finished uploading like 16 hours ago, supposedly.

But under "Conversations" it still says Zero KB. I restarted a few hours ago and it briefly showed all of my conversations on that page but now it's back to saying Zero KB.

So strange, so buggy.

Strangely, I checked my iPad last night and everything worked perfectly there!

The iPad had only half the Messages history of my phone but after turning on Messages in iCloud, it now has my complete Messages history synced from my phone AND it cleared off most of the storage that was taken up by Messages previously.

So everything went off without a hitch on my iPad but not my iPhone. No idea why.

I'm debating toggling Messages in iCloud off and back on from my iPhone.

I'm finding that the whole iCloud Message implementation is bizarre. I think it is working. But when my devices (iphone, ipad) are not charging I get a message "Uploading to icloud paused." When devices are charging, it states something like "waiting up upload." This has gone on for days. As others are finding, the storage reflected in icloud is roughly double of that on the devices. Yet, storage for messages is zero. Finally, on my mac, message storage is also listed as zero but all my messages and attachments are visible in the Messages app. Seems like apple, these days, is unable to release a bug free service.

I find messages in iCloud works very well. i think the "Conversations" showing as Zero KB or a different number to the icloud storage amount is a bug ive noticed this too this "Conversations" tab showing Zero KB initially for me but if i go out and back in it changes but to a different number than that to the iCloud messages amount and the "Conversations" show only some of my conversations not all them but the messages app shows them all which is weird. Perhaps its only the messages either taking up the most space show in this "Conversations" view or people you talk to most as this is what ive cut it down 2. 1 or the other of these 2 things. but apart from that it seems to work well. any messages i send go to all devices and any messages i delete delete on all and any new devices i sign into and turn on messages in iCloud sync and appear as they should and any conversations i had on one device while another device such as mac or iPad is off will appear so everything is mirroring its awesome. Just hope they fix the "Conversations" bug in settings

Try leaving the phone plugged in even when the initial upload is done. i tried this on an old iPhone none of my new messages were syncing but when i connected it to a charger with the screen off all the messages appeared when i checked 30 mins later. perhaps it needs to be plugged in

Yes this "Conversations" thing showing as Zero KB is a bug it looks like go back out and in and they should appear if not what i got from my testing is this will only show messages you chat to most or the messages taking up the most space but i could be wrong try send loads of photos or links to a person and see if this "Conversations" tab in settings changes

Same issue. Then I compared the usage on iCloud vs the usage on iOS and found that barely a third seemed to have been uploaded, despite the progress bar indicating almost 90%.

My “Conversations” showed zero until the process was complete.

Annoyingly, Messages seems to take up almost 50% more space in iCloud than it does in iOS.

Still happening in 11.4.1, which I downloaded a few hours ago. 😟

Yeah 11.4.1 doesn’t fix this hopefully iOS 12 will