How To Save Photos From Apple Messages

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macmost.com/e-3134 If the data in your Messages app is taking too much space on your Mac, iPhone or in iCloud, then you should clear out old photos and videos in conversations. You can do this in the Messages apps, but also in Settings. Then be sure to save and delete photos as you get them moving forward.
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00:00 Intro
00:44 Check How Much Storage Messages Is Using
02:19 Clearing Photos From Conversations
03:23 Managing Just Photos
05:16 Managing Messages Storage in Settings
07:00 Use Messages In iCloud To Sync
07:46 Set Messages To Auto-Delete
08:03 Keep Up With It Moving Forward
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@AnilAtluriWord 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Gary. Beautiful tips about how to save those pics and or delete them! 🙂

@milanchristi7939 2 ай бұрын

VERY helpful! Thank you!

@bitsmith 2 ай бұрын

Yes, Gary, I did find the video about Messages storage usage useful, VERY useful. I appreciate that you showed us both the Mac and iPhone/iPad. I learn more about Apple products from you than from any other resource. Thank You!

@loisskiathitis8926 2 ай бұрын

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️

@AndyCorkum 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. Yes, I asked about this a few weeks ago. What a helpful video. I hope my teen watches it :-)

@chrislazarou2682 2 ай бұрын

You need to make a video about Apple Music storage. Even though I don’t have any music downloaded it keeps taking 5 GB of storage

@macmost 2 ай бұрын

It is caching songs to play offline. If you have nothing at all downloaded (check in Settings, General, iPhone Storage, Music) then it is just caching your latest. It would then free up that cache if you are short on space.

@hamodalbatal464 2 ай бұрын

Extremely useful, thank you

@Greg-fg1rd 2 ай бұрын

Really helpful video. Thanks. Apple doesn't make it easy to delete things though. Doing so was a little glitchy having to redo deletions a couple of times. Managed though to eventually lose almost a full GB though. Noticed my IG app was the number one culprit. trying o figure out how to delete some things from there now. Love videos like this, thanks again!

@GWillWin 2 ай бұрын

I am one of those people who have my messages set to keep forever and i doubt I will change that. I know I should have been more brutal with deleting any large useless attachments etc (both sent and received) but did not so it is now a bit of an issue with space on one of my devices (64 gig ipad 9). In fact as an afterthought, each device I get now I have bought because I thought i needed more space. I used to get a long fine withe a 16 gig iPhone/ipad but now it seems a 256 gig is the minimum lol. Just followed your process here and have given myself a reprieve. From here on in I think I will be a bit more organized.

@jmcgilvary 2 ай бұрын

So, if I use the MAC chat window to delete photos/videos/, will it also delete them from the iPhone messages? Great help AGAIN!! OK, saw the answer a bit later...Thanks

@Smartiebob317 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for all you do. Looking forward to seeing an explanation of all the IOS updates we just got. Some seem confusing.

@macmost 2 ай бұрын

Do you mean iOS 17.5? There's not much to talk about unless you are in the EU. Did you have a specific question?

@Smartiebob317 2 ай бұрын

@@macmost No specific question. I had updates on all my apple devices in the last 24 hours and thought you knew about the new changes??

@macmost 2 ай бұрын

@@Smartiebob317 Nothing major. It was just going from .4 to .5. For iPhone users in the EU it enables third-party app stores. But for the rest of us just some minor things. Each update included a list.

@mikemcclain3869 2 ай бұрын

Very Helpful. I did not know you coould delete all photos from iphone like this. But on the mac I can only delete 1 photo at a time even after multi selecting a few. Is there a setting I may have wrong?

@macmost 2 ай бұрын

No, it only does one even when you have several selected. Hopefully something they will fix at some point.

@vivian9803 2 ай бұрын

@@macmostI hope they fix that, too. It’s so annoying!

@Absorbing146 2 ай бұрын

after saving photos I wanted ,,I changed the setting on iPhone to only keep message for 1 years instead of forever and I regained 50% of my iCloud space back. It took a few days but it slowly toss em out

@joescustomcreations350 2 ай бұрын

Hi Gary, quick question, if you delete a conversation does that delete it from your I cloud storage space as well ? Because when I delete a conversation it does not seem to lower my messages I cloud storage. Thanks in advance and thanks for all your great videos..

@macmost 2 ай бұрын

Yes, as long as you have iMessages in iCloud enabled. It may take some time to see the difference.

@srphoto90 2 ай бұрын

I’ve always deleted my messages and found out it’s not removing them from ICloud. I have 1gb of messages on my phone and 8gb in iCloud. Spoke to Apple and there doesn’t seem to be a way to clear up the iCloud messages at the moment.

@macmost 2 ай бұрын

@@srphoto90 Do you have Message In iCloud selected on all devices like I show in the video?

@macsakki 2 ай бұрын

Great video and I do this about once a months. The problem I have is that even when checking all devices that all the images are gone, they return a couple of days later again. I checked device’s storage (iPhone, iPad, MBP), checked iCloud storage for Messages. All show zero pictures and nevertheless some of them return a couple of days later. Any tips to eliminate this from returning in the future?

@macmost 2 ай бұрын

Not sure what could be causing that for you. Maybe you have another device that isn't functioning right? Maybe something with an older OS on it?

@macsakki 2 ай бұрын

@@macmost Not really. Only 3 devices: MBP, iPad en iPhone and all on the latest version of the operating system.

@mikerisner 2 ай бұрын

If there is a message thread with, say, a handful of people, would deleting an image from the thread delete that image for everyone else, too?

@macmost 2 ай бұрын

No. You can't reach out and change what is in other peoples' apps.

@JMyt24 2 ай бұрын

Can you show descriptive videos (may be in multiple parts) about iMovie?

@macmost 2 ай бұрын

I have a lot of videos on iMovie and a course too. See www.youtube.com/@macmost/search?query=imovie

@JMyt24 2 ай бұрын

@@macmost I see under playlist but nothing under Courses. The above link takes to your channel - not to iMovie

@macmost 2 ай бұрын

@@JMyt24 The link www.youtube.com/@macmost/search?query=imovie shows all of my KZfaq iMovie videos. courses.macmost.com is where I have my courses.

@zchovan 2 ай бұрын

This brings up a question I have. Is there "central repository" or something for all your messages ever sent/received? The data size always varies between my devices and I just assume it's because X device hasn't downloaded everything that Y device has. For example, my iPhone Messages app is using 32GB of storage and my Mac is using 14GB of storage. Personally, I like being able to keep all these things forever, but accessing stuff far into the past has proven tricky. Any clarity on how this works? Also.....future video idea could be explaining the "Shared with You" feature. I turned it off entirely because I felt everything was too cumbersome and messy, but having an explanation video from you would be great, I think!

@macmost 2 ай бұрын

If you are syncing Messages using iCloud, then iCloud would hold that. But it wouldn't be something you'd be able to see. "Shared With You" is just a convenient way to see things that another person shared with you. Just a handy list. Nothing more complex than that.

@zchovan 2 ай бұрын

@@macmost Thank you! Yes I am syncing with iCloud. As long as they're all there somewhere, lol. I imagine the discrepancy on the Messages app on Mac vs. iPhone (for me) is that they're just downloading what is necessary/most recent with older stuff remaining on iCloud. My Mac is newer than my iPhone so that seems to make sense.