Just curious, how many Messages do you have in iCloud?

Also 0, because I keep all of mine in a local encrypted incremental backup. It’s the only way I’ve ever done it. I don’t want any personal stuff on someone else’s computer. Pictures, same thing. It’s the only thing I’ve ever used iTunes for… but it does it really well, it’s very impressive. Every new phone, I plug it into my computer and hit “go” and it’s the exact same phone I had before, but better and faster and with a much better camera (I keep my phones for five or six years hahaha)

I did get a large amount of space through Poroton though, so I may rip everything, encrypt it, and throw the encrypted file on there, to have it offsite. Otherwise multiple on-site backups for all of the most important personal stuff.

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But still 63Kb too much

Same, turned off most iCloud settings since I don’t want their cloud service ads shoved in my face when I eventually run out

Is that 55k all pictures? How are you using up that much?

Although that honestly seems bizarrely large to me. I'm not a particularly heavy user of texting, though I have used it as long as Apple's provided a messaging service.