Tested on my iPad and MacBook, if you have an iCloud sync turned off and sign out of your account, upon the next login all the iCloud switches gets turned on and you have to manually turn them off again.
Tell HN: Signing out and in to Apple device forcefully activates iCloud sync
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Re: Tell HN: Signing out and in to Apple device forcefully activates iCloud sync
#2This is particularly troubling in light of their CSAM detection.
"Before an image is stored in iCloud Photos, an on-device matching process is performed for that image against the known CSAM hashes."
You do not own an Apple device that you buy.
https://www.macworld.com/article/352875/ios-15-csam-scanning...
Re: Tell HN: Signing out and in to Apple device forcefully activates iCloud sync
#3It’s frustrating that companies have so many people with job descriptions that include maximizing these “engagement” statistics that abusing and disrespecting users is done without a second thought.
Re: Tell HN: Signing out and in to Apple device forcefully activates iCloud sync
#4This is particularly troubling in light of their CSAM detection. "Before an image is stored in iCloud Photos, an on-device matching process is performed for that image against the known CSAM hashes." You do not own an Apple device that you buy. https://www.macworld.com/article/352875/ios-15-csam-scanning...
I’m willing to bet that this will be called an accidental bug by apple and never addressed.
Re: Tell HN: Signing out and in to Apple device forcefully activates iCloud sync
#5It’s frustrating that companies have so many people with job descriptions that include maximizing these “engagement” statistics that abusing and disrespecting users is done without a second thought.
You might be interested in this other post on HN today
Re: Tell HN: Signing out and in to Apple device forcefully activates iCloud sync
#6This is particularly troubling in light of their CSAM detection. "Before an image is stored in iCloud Photos, an on-device matching process is performed for that image against the known CSAM hashes." You do not own an Apple device that you buy. https://www.macworld.com/article/352875/ios-15-csam-scanning...
> You do not own an Apple device that you buy.
There's no way to avoid the Apple. It's become the Berlin Wall of computing. No admittance, no escape, secret police, protection racket.
Companies with apps don't have customers. They're unnaturally fenced off, cajoled, and taxed. Apple laughably claims privacy.
Meanwhile device owners can't repair their phones or expect not to be spied on. When they aren't paying $500 for RAM, they're letting Apple define what activities are permissible.
The damn thing doesn't even have a web browser that isn't safari. The Apple is so afraid of runtimes threatening the app store distribution model.
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#7It’s frustrating that companies have so many people with job descriptions that include maximizing these “engagement” statistics that abusing and disrespecting users is done without a second thought.
It's because of these people they know exactly what they can get away with that might cause so minor or major grumbling but not have any real impact on sales
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#8Also if you activate the screenshot on tap, you'll notice that your iphone will take screenshots through out the day without you even providing the necessary taps.
see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/hzovl0/back_tap_set_to...
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#9Something even more dangerous, if you have iCloud Drive enabled and open a (non-cloud) file in Numbers or Pages it'll save a copy in iCloud while you're editing it - it deletes it when you close it so you might even notice unless you go into iCloud on the web and check recently deleted files.
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