Over the years I have received ~30GB of iMessages. It's a lot. Photos, videos, some documents. I want to move them to another account (long story).
What's the best way? I initially thought to try this on my Mac. It's the most powerful machine. With access to ~/Library/Messages, I can see the full folder is 32GB or so of files, matching what it says I use for Messages in iCloud storage. I copied this folder as a backup just in case anything goes wrong and I signed out of my main account and signed into the new account. Along the way I also turned off iMessage for my phone number and turned it on for my new account. I left my Mac sync overnight and tried some combination of turning on and off Messages in iCloud to get the syncing to go and after a whole night I see 0KB used for iMessages in my new account.
Any better way to do it? Would it be better to try on an iPhone or iPad?
What's the best way? I initially thought to try this on my Mac. It's the most powerful machine. With access to ~/Library/Messages, I can see the full folder is 32GB or so of files, matching what it says I use for Messages in iCloud storage. I copied this folder as a backup just in case anything goes wrong and I signed out of my main account and signed into the new account. Along the way I also turned off iMessage for my phone number and turned it on for my new account. I left my Mac sync overnight and tried some combination of turning on and off Messages in iCloud to get the syncing to go and after a whole night I see 0KB used for iMessages in my new account.
Any better way to do it? Would it be better to try on an iPhone or iPad?
