Does iCloud have to be turned on your phone for it to capture information?

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does icloud have to be turned on your phone for it to capture information

text messages deleted when I cloud is off on your phone, when I cloud is turned on will the text messages appear

 

[Bigeric23]

Re: does icloud have to be turned on your phone for it to capture information

What do you mean capture information? If you are referring to the cloud, yes. However, just to use iMessage, no.