You cannot remove and sync more than 100 messages in iCloud each sync time.<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\nSo if you try to delete 500 messages conversation, iCloud will remove only 100 messages.<\/p>\n
How to recover old messages already deleted on my phone but staying in iCloud ?<\/h3>\n
Try this :<\/p>\n
1\/ Write a new message to your contact<\/p>\n
2\/ Disable Messages in iCloud sync<\/p>\n
3\/ Enable Messages in iCloud sync (charger plugged and WIFI on\/connected) and wait syncing.<\/p>\n
4\/ Go to Messages > Deleted items and restore messages.<\/p>\n
How to delete all messages restored ?<\/h3>\n
Try this :<\/p>\n
1\/ You should select 100 messages (by hand, one by one) and delete it.<\/p>\n
2\/ Empty the iMessages bin<\/p>\n
3\/ Force iCloud sync (Settings \/ iCloud account (on top) \/ iCloud Sync \/ Messages \/ Sync).<\/p>\n
Do it again and again to delete all messages in your conversations.<\/p>\n
For older messages, how to do now ?<\/h3>\n
Now you should use Keep Messages functionnality<\/p>\n
1\/ Change \u00ab\u00a0Keep Messages\u00a0\u00bb setting to infinite.<\/p>\n
2\/ Disable Messages in iCloud sync<\/p>\n
3\/ Enable Messages in iCloud sync<\/p>\n
4\/ Check if sync is finished<\/p>\n
5\/ Change setting \u00ab\u00a0Keep Messages\u00a0\u00bb to 1 year or 30 days<\/p>\n
6\/ Request sync.<\/p>\n
Messages in iCloud counter will drop by 100. Do it again and again to remove all stucked messages.<\/p>\n
\nI use this method because I don’t find other solution. It’s a mess but nothing else worked in my case.<\/strong><\/p>\nIn 5 hours, I reduce Messages in iCloud from 12000 messages to 25 messages.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nLet’s go. Play with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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