so wife’s phone is full

chatting about saving iMessages. gives me anxiety that my texts are slipping into the ether - although most are garbage

but kinda makes me think about how reading correspondence from historical figures in the past is always interesting 

afaik there’s no iMessage backup offload service?

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Probably not the answer you’re looking for but one route could be to upgrade to the next iCloud tier then wait a few years before the EU passes an international law that forces software companies to have exportable data. Then wait some more years until Apple decides to fold and market it as an innovation

Definitely wild but also unsurprising if most of that is Google Photos.

I have no grand conspiracies with big data companies but recently I’ve started setting up self-hosted solutions for myself and my family.

Partly to escape vendor lock-in, partly to consolidate countless digital artifacts made in everyday life.

right, not a terrible plan

kind of an aside but i ran a nearly full Google Takeout earlier this year and it was >2TB of data without some key things included. just a wiiiiild amount of data in there

This has actually already been a required option for companies since around 2018. I don’t recall which law caused what, but all the majors were already providing the functionality prior to 2018 

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102208

I’ve pulled snapshots from google and fb in the past and it can take days to get