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From: Connor Shannon <cshannon1898@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: How to delete the biggest files in Messages?
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:30:27 -0700
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On 4/26/25 3:29 PM, Your Name wrote:
> On 2025-04-26 15:56:13 +0000, Connor Shannon said:
> 
>> On 4/25/25 6:47 PM, Your Name wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It is the idiocy of cloud syncing, especially when using multiple 
>>> devices. When you delete them from one device, the other device 
>>> doesn't delete them, so they get re-up/downloaded to/from the silly 
>>> cloud server again.
>>>
>>> Turn off iCloud syncing on all devices. Then Delete the message 
>>> attachments from all devices. Then do NOT bother turning on silly 
>>> iCloud syncing again.
>>>
>>> And, before the moronic anti-Apple trolls start chiming in, the exact 
>>> same problems also affect Android syncing services. All cloud syncing 
>>> services are ridiculous and never work properly, partly because the 
>>> cloud software has no idea whether you purposely or accidentally 
>>> deleted the files from one device. Hence, you end up with problems 
>>> like this of stuff reappearing.
>>
>> Oh, okay. But I like having messages show up on all my devices. 
>> Sometimes I'm on my MacBook and sometimes I'm on my iPad and less time 
>> I'm on my iPhone but if a msg comes in I want it to come to where I 
>> am. So if I turn off iCloud that won't work right?
> 
> All you need to do is have the Messages apps on all the devices signed 
> into the same Apple account.
> <https://support.apple.com/guide/messages/set-up-messages-on-mac- 
> ichte16154fb/mac>
> 
> That support page article says:
> 
>     Enable Messages in iCloud: Select this option if you want
>     to store your messages in iCloud.
> 
> Note the important word *IF* - iCloud storage / syncing isn't necessary, 
> and can be a big pain in the backside, as you've found out.
> 
> 
Oh that's great thanks!

I did it and it says the messages will go away in 30 days. But already 
my iCloud storage has gone waaayyy down.