What Happens if I Turn Off Messages in iCloud?

Have you ever wondered what happens if you turn off messages in iCloud?Well you are in the right place. keep reading to find out how to disable messages in iCloud.

If you disable your messages on iCloud, i.e that is them off, it will be turned off across all devices.

Although, your message history will still be recorded on the iCloud backup.

If you use the same Apple ID on different devices, you can turn your messages in iCloud on or off on either one or all the devices.

How to Turn off Messages in iCloud on One Device

When you turn off Messages in iCloud for one device, it automatically stops syncing your messages with other devices.

However, this does not mean that you won’t be able to receive texts on the device. You still can, but the changes won’t sync across other devices.

Let’s say you disable iCloud Messages on your iPad and someone sends you a text and your receive it on both the iPad and your iPhone. If you eventually delete the message from your phone, the text will still be found on your iPad.

But if you had enabled iCloud, your messages will sync and when you delete on one device, it will automatically delete on the other device.

If you would love to turn off iCloud Messages on just one of your devices. Here’s what you should do, on your iPhone:

• Open the Settings
• Click your name.
• Tap iCloud.
• Click Show All under APPS USING ICLOUD.
• Click Messages.
• Tap to toggle the switch next to Sync this iPhone to the off position.
• Click Disable and Download Messages if notified.

If your messages have not completely synced to the device on which you are disabling this feature, you will immediately be notified to download the messages.

When this is done, all your messages will automatically be downloaded to your phone and your messages on your other devices will continue to sync to iCloud.

What Happens If you Turn off and Delete Messages in iCloud?

Turning off and deleting messages in iCloud will erase all of your conversations from your iCloud account. As a result, your messages will no longer sync across your other devices.

All of your conversations will be downloaded to your phone after disabling this feature, but note that iCloud will still hold on to your messages for thirty days as a precaution.

Here are the steps you need to take:

• Open the Settings app.
• Tap your name.
• Tap iCloud.
• Click Show All under APPS USING ICLOUD.
• Tap Messages.
• Click Manage Storage.
• Tap Disable & Delete.
• Tap Delete Messages to confirm.

With this guide you will be able to erase your messages if you want to either on one or all of the devices.