How to delete messages in iCloud

With Letters in iCloud, your unabridged message history stays up to date across your devices. If y'all demand to gratis upwardly infinite in your iCloud storage, you lot tin delete individual messages from all of your devices or turn off the Messages in iCloud feature.

What happens when you delete messages or turn off the Messages in iCloud characteristic

With Messages in iCloud, when you delete a bulletin, zipper, or chat on i device, information technology deletes from all of your devices. This can help free up some space in your iCloud storage, while keeping the rest of your conversations up to appointment across your devices. Once you delete a message, you lot tin can't get information technology back.

If you don't demand to keep your conversations up to date across your devices, y'all tin turn off the Messages in iCloud feature. If you lot turn off Messages in iCloud on an iPhone or iPad, your message history is included in a separate iCloud backup.

How to delete messages from iCloud

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

To delete an individual bulletin or attachment, follow these steps:

  1. In a message conversation, impact and hold the message bubble or zipper that you want to delete.
  2. Tap More.
  3. Tap Trashtrash icon, then tap Delete Bulletin. If you lot desire to delete all messages in the thread tap Delete All, in the upper-left corner. Then tap Delete Chat.

To delete multiple attachments from a contact or conversation, follow these steps:

  1. In a message chat, tap the contact's proper name at the top of the screen.
  2. Tap Info.
  3. Select See All Photos
  4. Tap Select, tap the images y'all'd similar to delete.
  5. Tap Delete, and then tap Delete Zipper to ostend.

To delete an entire chat, follow these steps:

  1. Swipe left over the conversation that y'all want to delete.
  2. Tap Delete.
  3. Tap Delete again to confirm.

On your Mac

To delete an individual message or attachment, follow these steps:

  1. Open a bulletin conversation.
  2. Control-click the blank surface area of a message bubble that you want to delete.
  3. Choose Delete.
  4. Click Delete.

To delete an unabridged conversation, follow these steps:

  1. Control-click a conversation.
  2. Choose Delete Conversation.
  3. Click Delete.

Learn more well-nigh nigh deleting texts and attachments in Messages in iCloud.

Plow off the Letters in iCloud feature

If you don't want to store your message history in iCloud and continue your conversations upward to engagement across your devices, use the steps below to turn off Letters in iCloud.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Tap Settings > [your proper name].
  2. Tap iCloud.
  3. Tap Manage Storage.
  4. Tap Messages, then tap Disable & Delete.

On your Mac

  1. Open Messages, then choose Messages in the menu bar.
  2. Select Preferences, then click iMessage.
  3. Deselect Enable Messages in iCloud, and then select Disable All.

If you tin can't delete messages on your Mac

If you delete individual messages from iCloud simply you even so see them on your Mac, yous might need to edit your Messages settings on your Mac. In Messages, go to Preferences > Full general. Make certain that the box next to "Save history when conversations are closed" is deselected.

Learn more near your iCloud storage limit

When you go over your iCloud storage limit, your letters and attachments don't upload to iCloud, and your devices won't back up or download to iCloud. Yous tin however admission your well-nigh recent letters, but they won't be stored in iCloud and deleted messages volition not update on all of your devices. To keep using Letters in iCloud, upgrade your storage or complimentary up space past deleting files that you don't demand.

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