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How come on my phone iMessage only uses around 400mb of data but when syncing to cloud it uses almost 3gig of my cloud space?? Anyone else find this??

maybe attachments (media, images, videos etc) in your iMessage threads save to iCloud rather than locally on your device?
 
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