Ios 11.4 downloading messages from icloud
If you delete a message on one device, it goes away on almost every device. That means you can delete a message thread on your iPhone and it will go away on your iPad automatically without needing to delete the thread in both places. Another benefit is that once enabled, your old messages will appear on new devices using your iCloud account when setting up as new.
Prior to iOS You can still use the old method, but Messages in iCloud is a much more modern approach — assuming the feature works well. Technically no, but you probably need to pay up to use it anyway. Messages in iCloud uses iCloud storage and Apple gives each account 5GB free, but large message libraries with lots of attachments like photos and videos will quickly exceed that 5GB limit — especially if you use iCloud storage for other purposes. Latest update is they called back and asked for settings screen shots of iPhone and MacBook Pro.
Still no request for logs. Jun 17, AM. Latest update is that it just started working on its own. Jun 18, PM. Jun 19, AM in response to mercadof In response to mercadof. Jun 19, AM. Jun 20, PM in response to mercadof In response to mercadof. Apple, once again, shows that they have lost control of their iCloud service many years ago, and just piled on one more problem after another on top of it.
Jun 20, PM. Jun 21, PM in response to mercadof In response to mercadof. Having no issues on iPhone or iPad. I just returned home at 3 pm today after being away for 48 hours, and launched the messages app on the Mac.
It didn't stop downloading new messages until pm. It shouldn't take almost four hours to sync messages across devices that haven't been used for a day or two. Jun 21, PM. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: mercadof mercadof. More Less. Reply I have this question too I have this question too Me too Me too. All replies Drop Down menu.
Jun 17, PM in response to Fonz0 In response to Fonz0 Happy to say that I have, quite accidentally, found a solution to this problem. Ensure that your iPhone is set up to use iCloud, that you have Messages enabled in your iCloud settings so that it is syncing messages with iCloud , and also that you have iCloud backups on in settings.
Trigger a manual backup to iCloud to ensure it has your latest messaging content. Click through the various confirmations and verify your password, then confirm and have the iPhone fully reset itself, deleting all data, apps, settings, etc. When it finishes, you will go through the normal setup screens as if it were a new iPhone out of the box.
Go through this process as normal; and when the time comes, select to restore from a previous iCloud backup. Select your most recent backup. If you delete a message, you can't get it back. If you don't want to keep your conversations up to date across all your devices, you can turn the Messages in iCloud feature off.
If you turn it off on iPhone or iPad, your message history is included in a separate iCloud backup. To enable Message in iCloud, make sure you have set up iCloud and are signed in with the same Apple ID across all your devices. You will also beed to be using two-factor authentification with your Apple ID and have turned on iCloud Keychain. If you turn off Messages in iCloud on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, your message history will be included in a separate iCloud backup, as we mentioned above.
You can choose to turn Messages in iCloud off for just one device, or for all your devices. Any device where Messages in iCloud remains on will continue to store what you send and receive from that device in iCloud. Open the Apple Servers to check on Apple system status and to see if there is any scheduled maintenance or other issues that you may not have been aware of.
As long as the servers are down, you will not be able to download messages from iCloud to your iPhone. A force-restart will help clear any running apps and other processes that may be exerting pressure on the RAM and affecting how iCloud functions, among other apps and services.
The process is quick, and there is no data loss involved. Once the iPhone hard reboot is complete, try downloading messages from iCloud to see if the problem has been taken care of. Running an outdated iOS version tends to disrupt how apps and services operate on your device.
If you keep running into problems every time you try downloading messages from iCloud, check to see if your iPhone is running on the latest firmware. If you are still struggling with downloading messages from iCloud even after updating iOS, you should assume the problem runs deeper, and resetting the network settings on your iPhone may set things right. A network settings reset will not affect the data linked to your iPhone, but you will lose all the WiFi, Bluetooth, and any other wireless connections.
You can set them up once the process is complete. So why is your iPhone stuck on downloading messages from iCloud? The following are some of the possible causes for this. Check out more smartphones.