Today went mostly smooth. I was able to pick up my phone and case quickly. I did the trade-in in store, from a 16 Pro Max to this phone. I did a very current iCloud backup at the store, set up the new phone, and left before it finished restoring (it was like 130 GB's to download).
After restoring was complete at home, none of my text messages in iMessage showed up 😢 (I do not have "Messages in iCloud" toggled on).
The weird thing is in iPhone Storage, it says Messages has 8.3 GB taking up space. It has Review Large Attachments (showing GB's to save by deleting), but when I click it, there's nothing there.
I hope they show up in the next few days or something.
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