Comment by dawnerd
10 hours ago
Same with photos. You can enable the option to offload but there’s no way to control how much is used locally. I don’t know why messages does that either. Also no easy way to remove the hundreds of thousands of photos in messages across all chats.
And for people like me who are content to pay for the iCloud storage in order to not delete them - there's no way to say "keep everything. but not locally, because that's silly."