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Justinwhitlock528

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Sep 13, 2024
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I just received a iPad for Christmas and turned on iMessage on the iPad but it was using 4x more storage on the iPad than my iPhone so I turned it off and now trying it save storage on my iPad and I can’t delete what is in other. Whenever I try to click on other it does not load anything. On my iPhone I am using 142.1 MB and on my iPad I am using 3.79 GB what can I do to reduce the amount of storage iMessage is using on my iPad? Thanks.
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Just to clarify when you click the “Other” in this photo it does nothing or just loads nothing? You might have to re-enable messages then it will work, but that’s just a guess.


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Did you click "Review Large Attachments" to see what most of that is? I'm thinking you have open text messages and someone has sent you 1 or more whopper "attachments."

An easy resolution is to close all conversations and start new ones when you want to text people again. Many just leave texts open forever and thus pile up huge amounts of data-hogging images/videos/music/documents people send to each other. Much like hanging up the phone at the end of a phone conversation, close a text conversation when done and then "call" them again next time you want to start a new text conversation.

In purging what is sometimes very long threads, you'll delete whichever one has the 1+ huge 'attachement(s)' in it.

And since there are differences between the 2 devices, I'd first delete all text messages, then log out of both devices iCloud, then back in again on both devices to get them synched back up. It seems your iPad is operating separately from your phone. If it's not that, my guess is whatever attachments are hogging up iPad space are openable on iPad but not on iPhone. Or maybe iPhone storage is too close to "full" but iPad has the room, so it is "accepting" the big attachment(s) while the iPhone can't, so it leaves it in iCloud.
 
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Did you click "Review Large Attachments" to see what most of that is? I'm thinking you have open text messages and someone has sent you 1 or more whopper "attachments."

And easy resolution is to close all conversations and start new ones when you want to text people again. Many just leave texts open forever and thus pile up huge amounts of data-hogging images/videos/music/documents people send to each other. Much like hanging up the phone at the end of a phone conversation, close a text conversation when done and then "call" them again next time you want to start a new text conversation.

In purging what is sometimes very long threads, you'll delete whichever one has the 1+ huge 'attachement(s)' in it.

And since there are differences between the 2 devices, I'd first delete all text messages, then log out of both devices iCloud, then back again on both devices to get them synched back up. It seems your iPad is operating separately from your phone. If it's not that, my guess is whatever attachments are hogging up iPad space are openable on iPad but not on iPhone. Or maybe iPhone storage is too close to "full" but iPad has the room, so it is "accepting" the big attachment(s) while the iPhone can't, so it leaves it in iCloud.
This fixed the issue. Thanks for all the help
 
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