Re: How to delete the biggest files in Messages?

On 2025-04-26 01:26:06 +0000, Connor Shannon said:

On 4/25/25 9:12 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:

On 2025-04-25, Connor Shannon <cshannon1898@yahoo.com> wrote:

On 4/24/25 2:26 PM, Connor Shannon wrote:
 

Thank you every body. I found that and also just when you go into iPhone
Storage before you go into Messages it says "Review Large Attachments"
too so after I get rid of the ones I don't want in MEssages I'll look
for others.
 I thought it might be easier to delete things in iCloud on my Mac but it
just gave me little pictures of the files it didn't let me play the
videos so I could see what they were so thank you for letting me know
about the reviewing attachments on my iPhone.

 well rats I spent an hour yesterday deleting videos and photos and it
still says I have 2.6GB in Messages! Now what??

 I'm curious since I don't use Messages in iCloud: What do you see
for Messages when you log into the iCloud website?

 If I look at my storage for Messages on the iCloud website it still says 2.6GB. :(
 Just now I looked at Settings > General > Storage > Messages on my MacBook and when I clicked the "i" info button it brought up a list of messages and I looked at some of the bigger ones and they're the same videos I deleted yesterday! It's like what I did on my iPhone for an hour yesterday didn't do anything! Help!

It is the idiocy of cloud syncing, especially when using multiple devices. When you delete them from one device, the other device doesn't delete them, so they get re-up/downloaded to/from the silly cloud server again.
Turn off iCloud syncing on all devices. Then Delete the message attachments from all devices. Then do NOT bother turning on silly iCloud syncing again.
And, before the moronic anti-Apple trolls start chiming in, the exact same problems also affect Android syncing services. All cloud syncing services are ridiculous and never work properly, partly because the cloud software has no idea whether you purposely or accidentally deleted the files from one device. Hence, you end up with problems like this of stuff reappearing.