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nicoburns · 2021-11-22 16:49:12

I avoid iCloud problems by not using iCloud. Seems to be a lot more trouble than it’s worth!

everly | karma 776 | avg karma 3.84 · | 2023-09-13 10:07:51

I refuse to use icloud. Every few months I tranfer to an external HD via USB.

ianstallings | karma 2123 | avg karma 2.13 · | 2013-02-26 19:08:29+00:00

Solution: Don't use iCloud.

pohuing | karma 351 | avg karma 1.76 · | 2024-02-15 07:36:05

It's nagging me because I don't use iCloud.

lispm | karma 12407 | avg karma 2.21 · | 2016-09-26 16:07:44+00:00

I avoid everything iCloud. First thing I disable.

golergka | karma 8291 | avg karma 1.31 · | 2015-03-12 02:51:42

iCloud is widely considered to be troublesome by many different developers.

WA | karma 8314 | avg karma 4.58 · | 2013-08-21 08:53:05+00:00

Same for me. I don't use iCloud, but I still use OSX

Gaelan | karma 2595 | avg karma 2.88 · | 2017-09-05 21:30:42

You don’t use iCloud Drive, do you?

sys_64738 | karma 3813 | avg karma 1.25 · | 2021-06-25 15:55:40+00:00

I stick with iCloud myself.

api | karma 31631 | avg karma 2.2 · | 2023-01-15 17:34:21

This can’t happen if you don’t use iCloud. It’s a security feature supposedly for the user, but is badly implemented and annoying.

caiob | karma 195 | avg karma 0.64 · | 2014-10-20 12:11:07+00:00

Absolutely true. As a user, I have never had any problems using iCloud.

rootusrootus | karma 23619 | avg karma 2.53 · | 2022-12-07 13:27:42

I don't use iCloud for anything. Dropbox gets my pictures, Google has my contacts, 1Password handles my passwords, etc.

brundolf | karma 40865 | avg karma 9.15 · | 2020-12-26 16:04:09

I say this as an Apple fan who uses almost exclusively their devices: iCloud is hot garbage. It mostly works if you stick to the default settings and use it for nothing but passive device-backup and photo-backup for a single iPhone. Anything outside of that is a mine-field of login errors, sync issues, totally unconsidered use-cases, functionality that's simply broken (not just under special conditions; flatly broken), etc.

mratzloff | karma 4406 | avg karma 3.09 · | 2018-05-23 09:47:25+00:00

Unfortunate, but perhaps a useful learning experience.

I disable iCloud on all of my Apple devices. Instead, I just make regular backups myself and tolerate different recent content on each device until synced with my Mac, which is backed up as well.

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RockRobotRock | karma 1721 | avg karma 2.2 · | 2023-07-22 19:47:22

This looks like a very useful utility, but why would you use iCloud if problems like this are this frequent? Compared to Dropbox, for instance?

rimliu | karma 991 | avg karma 0.51 · | 2017-08-18 07:56:56+00:00

Why not to use iCloud? It handles backups and sync.

TheRealNGenius | karma 197 | avg karma 0.4 · | 2020-01-06 02:38:37+00:00

I use iCloud

shdh | karma 190 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2024-01-16 01:20:05

I use iCloud instead and it works great.

sykh | karma 613 | avg karma 2.72 · | 2018-05-04 15:26:55+00:00

I use iCloud for storage. It’s worked great for me. I’ve never had a problem with it. It wasn’t eye opening to me that the author doesn’t use iCloud.

Silhouette | karma 13968 | avg karma 1.95 · | 2020-01-21 15:46:03+00:00

This is a HUGE problem.

Well, you can choose not to use iCloud for that reason (as some of us do).

A bigger problem is that Apple deliberately locks up iDevices so it's hard to get your data off them using only local means, particularly if you don't also want to buy an Apple laptop just to do it.

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