how to delete messages on icloud

R_Reese Said:

"how to delete messages on icloud: How do I clean out messages on icloud. It is taking up 75 percent. I need to be careful which ones I delete because of an estate trust situation. I need to keep those texts."

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Saving Messages:

Log in to the same Apple ID on your Mac, and then save them as a PDF document.

1. Open: Messages
2. Select: the messages thread
3. Click: File menu
4. Select: Print
5. Select: "Save as PDF"

Delete whatever texts you wish on your device.

Perhaps research in detail, on how to save or archive texts offline,

in different file format; ahead attempt to delete iCloud content.

Another sync'd device might be useful to get file 'saved' aside. IF

before full duplicate from iCloud has begun. Otherwise, all are lost.

•How to back up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support

•Manage your iCloud storage - Apple Support

[Prior experience as personal representative shows backups of Text

iMessage is essential to protect estate from secondary claims when

there's a chance of defectors among those who take extraordinary

risk of counter-suit in Court, rather than play along nice to resolve.]

A quality backup of computer hard drive to an external storage is

one of the better ideas; and to test that, before clearing all iCloud.

[Bombich software for making clones, is better means to this end.]

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