Best to never share Apple IDs. Use shared iOS Photo albums or family sharing or Google Photos or Amazon Photos or something... you're using iCloud wrong.
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iCloud Messages Returns to iOS in First Beta of iOS 11.3
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Best to never share Apple IDs. Use shared iOS Photo albums or family sharing or Google Photos or Amazon Photos or something... you're using iCloud wrong.
Has anyone confirmed that this feature is actually working? Whether you call it syncing, or copying. Nothing is happening between my iPad and my iPhone. None of the messages on my iPhone seem to show up on any other device I’m signed into.
This is probably not part of the initial release of iMessage for iCloud, but what I'd personally like to see is a way to archive or hide message chats instead of just deleting them. I'm probably the only one that would like this feature, though, so I doubt we'll ever see it.
I will look again. I remember it there last time it was an option but didn’t see it today.
Account tab, got it.
Don’t several desktop apps for your Mac backup any or all of your iMessages wherever you want like iexplorer or phoneview ?
I understand that way less than never deleting messages.... so point being: different strokes for different folks
Actually it isn’t copying them right now. As I understand it the way it works is when a device sends a message it asks Apple for a list of devices you receive Messages on. Along with this list it gets a public encryption key for each device. It then creates a message for each device. It sends that encrypted message to Apples servers. Your devices then query for new messages from it from Apple’s server. This is why you can get a flood of old messages when you use a device that has been shut off for a while.
I’m not sure how text messages (not Messsages) syncing. I assume what happens is something like the same thing. Your phone gets a text and then it creates a Message for each of your devices.
When will there be a solution for Apple watch? We still have to manually delete messages on there and they can add up
Yup. I got the same screen as above only with a Continue button instead of Use iCloud/Not Now leading me to think it was automatically enabled. It wasn’t. Had to turn it on in iCloud settings myself.
Well then you certainly don't have to. It's just an option for those that do find the need and want.
I am hoping this update applies to the apples watch as well...
Oh lord no! I do not want all my messages across my iPad and computers. This will be an automatic disable for me
Since the actual syncing doesn't appear to work yet, I wonder if it's related to it not being in the 'iCloud' settings of System Preferences (on computers) ? Even on my iPhone, it asked if I wanted to enable it and I said 'yes', but in the iCloud menu on my iPhone, it wasn't toggled on.
Don't feel like sifting through 8 pages...so...once enabled, will this sync messages to iCloud.com as well (I don't see a link for Messages yet) so I can access on a PC? Otherwise, I don't see the point in this as Continuity already accomplished this?
It wont turn on for me. Says it requires 2 factor authentication, asks for my password, and after I enter it, nothing!
Think of the current way as POP email and the new way (iMessage in the cloud) as IMAP email.
I think the feature is there. But it hasn’t started syncing on my devices. Just been waiting for it to happen. Odd also that before you had a way to manually force it to sync. And that option isn’t there.
I do remember when it was first rolled out, before it was pulled, that it took forever for it to sync. And for my messages to show up on other devices. Even a manual sync didn’t seem to make it work. And then one day out of the blue, poof, it began working by itself.