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What if you want to capture your kid’s first steps, but the camera can’t save the video? While you’re busy downloading music, making personal calls, and watching movies, you can easily forget how many video, image, or audio files you’ve saved from incoming messages.Īlthough erasing attachments is not complicated, it’s not a good idea to let your device get cluttered to its maximum capacity. No matter how much storage space you have, it’s easy to lose track of the available storage space after a while. Delete large messages or messages with attachments, or move the messages to a mailbox on your Mac. You can do the same thing for any documents that have been sent to you via iMessage. Outlook for Mac: Email taking up too much storage. Then, select ‘Save image.’ You can also share the image among other options. In the lower-left corner, tap on the share icon. Tap ‘See All,’ then tap on the one you want to save. If you need to save a photo or video that was sent to you, follow the same instructions as above to locate the attachments in iMessage. Both versions are similar, but in Outlook 2011, you do not get the ‘Export’ button directly under the ‘Tool’s tab you have to go to ‘File’ to get it.

Sometimes, it’s better to save an iMessage attachment to your device rather than let it sit in the Message app. Check the items you want to archive and export.

How do I download an iMessage attachment? If you still have yet to find your iMessage attachments, check out this article. It saves you the trouble of having to manually dig through the logs to see what’s taking up too much storage capacity. It’s also a nice feature to have activated if you’re afraid of being bombarded with spam or cheesy birthday messages. This is another cool way to clear space on your iPhone or iPad. Select After 2 minutes, or s elect Never if you want to start saving audio and video messages again.

Locate the Audio Messages and tap Expire under each one.

If you want to dispose of audio and video messages automatically, you can set lower time frames. Messages can only be automatically deleted if they’re older than 30 days or one year, depending on your choice.

Tap the period of time that works best for you.

Locate Message History and select Keep Messages.

By doing this, you will delete the conversation, and all the attachments received. My only solution is restoring from a backup and letting it download everything from iCloud.If you know you’ll be running low on storage space, you can always configure iMessage to delete incoming messages after a while automatically. Then to make it worse, so message threads I saw before rebooting are still there and local. And for the love of god give us an option on how we deal with attachments. What happened to it syncing those convos over from iCloud? lol. When I send or get a new message, i see that but no message history yet I got the history on all my devices. yet it’s showing on all my devices just fine. I did proceeded to log back in and enable back messages in iCloud, rebooted, left it over night on the charger, and guess what? Those convo I deleted are no longer showing on the iPad. Open messages, it still had some message threads there even though NOTHING was showing on local storage. Then I look on the local storage and it still had some previous messages taking about the same amount of space. And it deleted most of the attachments right away in a lot of my messages thread. So on my iPad I already had messages there and didn’t have messages in iCloud on it. from the OP's pictures it's looking about right IMHO Now what I noticed from Settings > name > iCloud > Manage Storage > Messages, when I tap into it and hit Conversations, those messages listed there, are the people I've swapped the most screenshots, pictures, gifs with size wise. On my phone what I noticed, is the last few messages I got yesterday that had attachments are the only ones that show up when I tap Photos from Settings > General > ipHone Storage > Messages everything else shows Zero KB. For instance on my iPhone (the place I send the most messages) directly, my Messages are using 70.1MB but on iCloud storage, it shows they are using 9.31GB. If and when your device needs space, your iOS will start 'cleaning' off files and make room for anything that's 'syncing' through iCloud. Meaning it's not designed to completely save you space on your devices, especially if the Message threads has attachments. For all intents and purposes, iCloud Messages is for cross device syncing. For what you're experiencing, Messages in iCloud still uses some form of local storage, that way you can still see and interact with the Messages, similar to iCloud Photo Library.

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