How is it that the Messages data store is still allowed to balloon in size until there’s no space for anything else left and the device grinds to a halt and refuses software updates? Because it forces people to buy larger sized iPhones and iCloud plans, sure. But seriously? This is with Messages in iCloud *enabled*. I shouldn’t need local copies of /anything/, certainly not 50GB worth. Where’s the ‘offload attachments’ option?

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 Yesterday, I freed up 5GB of extra space by throwing out my downloaded music and deleting a bunch of apps.

Today, iMessage has *grown to fill the space I freed*, and now takes up 58.9GB, up from 52.85GB the day before. This is all kinds of broken

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