iCloud User Guide
- Welcome
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
- Customize and use the homepage tiles
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
- Recover files and information
- Use iCloud on your Windows device
- Get more help with iCloud
- Legal notices and acknowledgements
- Copyright
Keep your messages up to date with iCloud
With iCloud, your messages stay up to date on all your devices. You can also use Messages to collaborate with others.
Access the same messages on all your devices
When you set up iCloud for Messages, your messages are stored in the cloud, with only the most recently accessed Messages stored locally on your device. You can see them on any device that’s set up for iCloud and Messages, including your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Because your messages are in the cloud, if you send, receive, or delete a message on one device, those updates appear everywhere. You see the most up-to-date version of your messages, no matter where you access them.
Note: Your messages, along with the accompanying photos and other attachments, count toward your iCloud storage.
Share and collaborate using Messages
On devices with iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, or later, you can use Messages to collaborate on projects in iCloud Drive, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Notes, Reminders, Safari, and supported third party-apps. When you share a file in a message, everyone in the conversation is automatically added.
When collaborators make changes to a shared file, everyone sees activity updates at the top of the Messages conversation.