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What's worst if even if I disable everything, I will find that some app will turn on iCloud sync by default at a later date without me knowing. I have to constantly check the settings to make sure nothing is syncing without my permission.
My iCloud has been full for years, I never got more space. Keeps my newer files safe I guess!
I wondered what was doing it!!!! Thank you for explaining. I don’t use iCloud and always turn the sync off but once in a while I see the toggles on again it’s so frustrating. I also help some elderly with their iPhones and had setup iTunes backup to their iMacs, but every time I go to fix something the toggles are all on again. For one of them, they somehow enabled purchasing extra iCloud space so now they pay when t…
> Is it so hard to comprehend?
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
My iCloud has been full for years, I never got more space. Keeps my newer files safe I guess!
Create a 5Gb (or whatever the default storage allocation is) file from /dev/zero and max out iCloud.
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> Why would you claim this? There are no limitations on web browsers. All browsers on iOS must use the WebKit browser engine making them, in essence, safari clones with a different look and feel.
They say “the Apple” While it’s true for ios, “the Apple” also makes macos, where you can freely pick your browser
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I don't really assume malicious intent here - this is presumably "caching" the current unsaved changes on the cloud in case your application crashes or something. But the fact that it's not obvious at all is a major problem. There's also no way to selectively disable this behavior - if you want to use iCloud Drive for some documents you need to put up with this.
You can just cache activity to a local duplicate file. It's not a new idea. There's no reason to do it on the cloud.
I have a Basic iOS Hardening MDM profile which disables iCloud Backup, ad tracking identifier, etc that I deploy on all my iOS devices the moment I set them up.
Can you productise that? It sounds appealing!
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> I don't really assume malicious intent here - this is presumably "caching" This doesn't seem like thinking critically. Do you not imagine that Apple, the size they are, with all their lawyers take a decision like this seriously? It's not like a developer unilaterally decided that they were going to make this as a feature without levels of management and execs deciding that this was okay. Assuming incompetence rathe…
Do you really imagine that there is any kind of oversight on development like this? Levels of management getting involved in some random feature? Very unrealistic. The requirement said to not lose the customers work. Everything else was on the development team most likely.