I just noticed that the status bar of the upload will appear at the bottom of the iMessage thread list, but seems to be only when on Wi-Fi and plugged in.
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iCloud Messages Returns to iOS in First Beta of iOS 11.3
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I have the same Apple ID on both devices. Like I have said before. If I get a new text. I can delete that text and it disappears from all my devices.
So that part works fine. It’s syncing all my old messages to my other devices that doesn’t work.
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Yeah I been having it plugged in and on wifi. Just doesn’t seem to sync my text of messages. It works great with all new messages though. So I don’t know.
The feature I always thought they had until I tried switching devices. I don't get why this wasn't there on day 1 like every other messaging platform.
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or better management of the downloaded images so you don't have to worry about this. Seems they cache everything locally forever :S
how come they left out apple watch support for it? i hate when i delete a message on my iPhone it doesn't delete on my watch isn't this support to solve the problem but yet they didnt mention apple watch working with iMessage on cloud
My messages have now begun to sync, not all of them however...
I had no messages at all on my iPad before, I’ve now got them up until December.
Didn’t do anything for it to happen, they just appeared.
I had no messages at all on my iPad before, I’ve now got them up until December.
Didn’t do anything for it to happen, they just appeared.
Yeah, I mean I know its a feature you have to test a lot before release, since it involves private messages but come on... they announced it a while ago and it is still in beta so users will get it in March
Same. I knew I wasn’t crazy cause my messages weren’t syncing. And when I woke up. They started syncing, finally.
Hell not likely! It just gives a great reason for end users to pay up for a great service to expand iCloud storage per year. To be very honest I most likely will tomorrow after new phone line and 2Factor authentication is setup.
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This alone is reason I’ve been waiting for this. WatchOS was updated yesterday and yet still cannot delete all on my watch and it’s terribly out of sync. Imagine not manually cleaning your watch from ex girlfriend texts. You begin dating someone of great significance and are engaged or married a year later and one day twist your wrist and she sees text history. It’s not immediately evident the date of texts on Watch so this can cause a very hurtful misunderstood situation.
Yes!! And new Mac mini.
I don’t believe Apple ever restricted email size capacity at all and I don’t get regular daily spam like I do on gmail email so that’s worth a LOT more than gmails 15GB “free” storage many of which is spam and useless to me.
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A valid & solid reason for iCloud iMessages that nobody can contest! You honor your blessed father doing this!!
My ex does this with our message history. At first it angered me because she was hurt and had recall so quickly. Then I realized I could learn from the hurt and she also shared the very beautiful & uplifting messages I sent her which made her heart smile and sing. I’m very blessed to have her in my life as a friend yet secretly I still love her like crazy and I know she still does with me too. One day.
Many people live moments like pictures captured to behold. Now with animations in iMessage it’s even more precious.
Nope - we want to have 1 single full photo library that both ids sync to. You can have a shared album but this is just for selected photos.
That's actually a terrible comparison because analog voicemails on a tape recorder aren't indexed, and aren't easily searchable. They'd be an enormous pain to slog through.
There are very many reasons why someone would choose to maintain their entire history of conversation with any one person, or even many people, or even everybody they work with.
And there are also reasons why I don't want to manually delete messages after I've read them, either.
Anyway, I'm glad iCloud Messages is getting closer to public release. I hope it merges and syncs my entire archive of messages, between my iPhone X, iPad Pro, and MacBook Pro.
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Phew, this is good to read. I'd been wondering how they would handle this. (I saw the comments in this thread yesterday indicating that it might not be syncing older messages, and I was like, uh oh...)
Can you confirm that it's merging older messages from multiple devices? If I had "conversation A" on my laptop and "conversation B" on my iPhone... after iCloud Messages does its magic, will I have both conversations on both devices?
Thanks
Mine merged everything from my iPad and iPhone back and forth. But it took forever to start working.That's actually a terrible comparison because analog voicemails on a tape recorder aren't indexed, and aren't easily searchable. They'd be an enormous pain to slog through.
There are very many reasons why someone would choose to maintain their entire history of conversation with any one person, or even many people, or even everybody they work with.
And there are also reasons why I don't want to manually delete messages after I've read them, either.
Anyway, I'm glad iCloud Messages is getting closer to public release. I hope it merges and syncs my entire archive of messages, between my iPhone X, iPad Pro, and MacBook Pro.
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Phew, this is good to read. I'd been wondering how they would handle this. (I saw the comments in this thread yesterday indicating that it might not be syncing older messages, and I was like, uh oh...)
Can you confirm that it's merging older messages from multiple devices? If I had "conversation A" on my laptop and "conversation B" on my iPhone... after iCloud Messages does its magic, will I have both conversations on both devices?
Thanks
Okay, so I've seen that merges work between iPad and iPhone.
How about iPad/iPhone & MacBook? Asking because I have archives of messages on my mac..
How about iPad/iPhone & MacBook? Asking because I have archives of messages on my mac..
Why the hell would you want to delete your messages daily? Don’t understand this. I keep all my messages for quite some time.
This is smart. I've recorded some important old voicemails for the same reason.
It seems to be working that way for me for my two factor auth accounts.
Are use an app called SMS export and that extract them from a local iOS back up but it has to be on encrypted. I do have another app that can access them from iCloud but it doesn’t work very well. Some of my friends get shocked when I tell them how many years of messages I have archived because they realize the things that they may have said in the past LOL
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Are use an app called SMS export and that extract them from a local iOS back up but it has to be on encrypted. I do have another app that can access them from iCloud but it doesn’t work very well. Some of my friends get shocked when I tell them how many years of messages I have archived because they realize the things that they may have said in the past LOL
Including pics? When I delete pics on one device they remain on the others.
And now that Apple swapped the default on macOS Messages to "Cancel" from "Delete" it is even slower clearing out all messages on macOS.