Why are messages not stored on my iCloud account?

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why is messages not stored on my icloud account?

i have tuned on back up option ,yet i cannot restore messages

 

[Jaguarr40]

Re: why is messages not stored on my icloud account?

If you are bacing up to iCloud and not your computer via iTunes they should be, Whenever I do a software upgrade my choice is iTunes and restore from backup after setting up as new, I get everything back and should be the same way with iCloud.