I was doing some digital decluttering yesterday. I discovered I had more than 1 MILLION texts backed up in iCloud (Apple’s cloud service). This is from at least a decade of syncing messages between iPhone/iPad/Mac. I turned off Messages for iCloud and suddenly I have a ton more storage in iCloud. I was able to downgrade to the 50GB plan. NOTE: if you shut this off, you don’t have the sync between your devices and you HAVE NO BACKUP! If your phone bricks, you’re out of luck. I don’t care as I don’t keep my messages.
Tried to upload a screenshot of the setting showing all those messages but it wasn’t working.