Apple
has finally introduced Messages in iCloud backup feature with the release of its
latest iOS 11.4. It was much awaited features by many iPhone X and other Apple
device users. Now your message either iMessage or messages will be stored in
cloud space and will be accessible across all Apple devices. This will sync
deleted/new messages and threads across all your iCloud devices, easy migrating
to new iPhone as messages will be downloaded from iCloud, small backups and
specially saving memory space in iPhone. By default this feature is off after the upgrade in iOS 11.4
and you will have to turn it ON from your icloud setting for message.
The
feature is really useful but many iPhone users are facing different issue with
messages saving in iCloud. This is not a good sign to Apple as the any issue in
message/imessage will make customer really annoying.
There
are too many issues with message in iCloud in iOS 11.4,
Causing iMessage to send/revert to text sporadically, messages don't send to
non iMessage people sometimes. Downloading messages notification is still
going. You may receive failures but then people are really getting them. It
does nor seems to reliable at this stage.
Below are some list of issue which are reported by iPhone/iPad users
-Deleting a message
can delete entire thread on other device
Deleting
an entire message thread works fine across iOS devices. But, if go into a
message thread and try to delete a single message from the conversation (tap
and hold a message, click “More”, select the individual message, and click
delete), it works on the device in use, but deletes the entire message thread
from my other iOS devices.
Also
on more issue with deletes operation on icloud over iOS 11.4 is, if I delete a
single thread I get warned about it deleting everywhere. If I select multiple
threads, I never get warned when deleting them.
-
Will continuously take iCloud space
Storing
the messages in the cloud would make my iPhone/iPad storage go down and but at
the same time iCloud storage go up. If you text a lot and have limited iCloud
size eg 5GB , you may very soon run out of iCloud storage.
-My messages keep saying "downloading
from iCloud"
For
many users the downloading of message is not happening fast and keeps on saying
for days "downloading from iCloud". When it's
doing that, messages app gets slow/sluggish and buggy. Syncing happens “immediately”
assuming the device has an internet connection, WiFi and charging in order for
it to sync.
- message even sync
when setting are off
Some
users are facing weird bug that after getting too many issues in Messages they
decided to turn off the feature from settings but, turning it off, unfortunately
it’s still trying to upload after that.
-iOS 11.4 iCloud
message causing message to arrive on one device only
While
for some customer are facing issue that message are not getting receivedon
iPhone while iPad is receiving the messages fine. .
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