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[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

I delete after 30 days, forever is wild

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 3 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day ago

0

But still 63Kb too much

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Less than 700, ~15MB.

And almost all of that is texts from automated systems. I live in the UK; most people here use WhatsApp or Messenger, not SMS/iMessage.

[–] alia@nord.pub 2 points 23 hours ago

Over 3.000. Which is strange, since I count only 8 in my Messages app.

[–] whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

262k @ 53 GB

[–] MapleFawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

3k and about one GB. I don’t often use the regular messages.

[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Less than 10k, oldest from 2014. I guess it’s mostly automated SMS notifications.

[–] _deleted_@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

6424 messages, 658.5 MB

[–] Officialschloss@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

1,890,165

32.1 GB

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

55k messages. 121GB. Been on iOS for 2 years.

Holy hell, that seems like a lot of messages. It’s never anything important!

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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

[–] homes@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago