So Apple finally brought Messages in iCloud in iOS 11.4 and macOS High Sierra 10.13.5. This was one of the features I was most excited about when iOS 11 was announced. It was in a bunch of the betas but took until 11.4 for it to make it out into the world.

Why am I so excited about it? I like the idea of everything truly syncing with Messages across all my devices and it also provides me with a great backup for my Messages. Messages are already a part of my daily backup, so they won’t add anymore to my iCloud space usage. Everything being stored in the cloud should help save a lot of local storage space on my Macs and iPhone.

I’ve also been wanting to do a “clean install” (not installing any 3rd party apps), but I didn’t have a good way to restore messages while clearing everything else. Now I can do that and restore all my messages. Not that my messages have any super important conversations, but there are some attachments I might want later that I haven’t saved into Photos or somewhere else.

Messages was the last major service in the Apple ecosystem they needed to be moved to the cloud. Now to hope iOS merges conversations based on contact info so that I don’t have multiple threads with the same person...