Messages nearly 60GB?

[lieb39]

Hi all

Per the attached screenshot, messages is taking nearly 60GB of my phone!

I assume this is occurring because media in messages is stored on the phone rather than in the cloud. Is there a way to bulk move media to Photos, so they are uploaded to the cloud and not on my phone locally?

On a similar note, can I do the same for WhatsApp?

Thank you.

 

[velocityg4]

I don't think there's a way to do it within iOS. You'll have to connect to your computer and use something like iMazing. To bulk export attachments from Messages and WhatsApp.

Export WhatsApp Chats and Attachments from iPhone to your computer in PDF, Excel, CSV, and RSMF formats

imazing.com