iCloud I disabled Messages in iCloud this morning. Why does it still take up 16 GB of iCloud space?

[felixen]

After having had Messages in iCloud enabled since it was first made possible, I finally decided to switch it off today to save some space. However it still says Messages take up 16 GB of my iCloud storage. How come?

 

[brewc99]

I'm guessing because you haven't actually deleted anything. All you have done is disabled the syncing of messages between your phone and icloud. Can you login to icloud via a browser and access messages, delete them there?

 

[felixen]

I'm guessing because you haven't actually deleted anything. All you have done is disabled the syncing of messages between your phone and icloud. Can you login to icloud via a browser and access messages, delete them there?

You’re absolutely right, thank you. I needed to disable and then delete

 

[Jumpie]

I've left it enabled and deleted a ton of messages but it didn't reduce the iCloud storage size.