If you use an iPhone, you may already know that the Messages application functions as Apple’s secure instant messaging service, between Apple devices, and is also the tool that this phone has to send and receive text messages .
One of the main advantages of the so-called Apple ecosystem is that practically all the apps developed by Apple can work in consonance on different devices, as long as we have the same Apple ID account integrated into them (and the session started).
In this way, it is possible to start editing a certain text document in Pages on the Mac, and if we have this application installed on our iPad, continue working on it when we are, for example, on public transport.
In the case of Messages , if we have the iCloud option enabled and working, the messages we have sent and received tend to stay updated on each of our Apple devices . What’s more, we can even delete a message on one device and it will be deleted equally on all others.
But sometimes syncing text messages to iCloud may not work as well as we would like. In case your Mac doesn’t sync messages automatically, you can force sync manually . We explain how.
Forcing the synchronization of Messages with iCloud on our Mac
Before starting the process, you need to open the Messages application . Once we have opened the app, we must go to the menu bar and click on Preferences .
Now we have to select the Messages tab, and we must then click on the Synchronize now option.
If we return to the main window of the Messages application, we will see that an alert message will appear in the lower left corner where the app tells us that the messages are being downloaded from iCloud.
We just have to wait for the process to complete. As text messages generally take up very little space, the process will not take more than a few minutes.
Forcing Messages sync with iCloud on iPhone or iPad
If you use an iPhone or iPad, it is also possible to automatically synchronize our text messages through iCloud. However, in the case of both devices the simplest solution is to turn it off and on again .
In this way, we will momentarily deactivate the synchronization of iCloud Messages on all devices, which will be activated again from the moment the phone or iPad is turned on and started.
