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  1. K

    [solved] Why do Iphone photos remain on Iphone when deleted from ICloud?

    I have ICloud Photos enabled on three devices: Iphone iOS 15.4, Ipad Ipad iOS 14.0, and Macbook Pro Catalina 10.15.3. All the devices store full-size photos. Iphone is now out of memory. It is the main source of new photos. When I erase photos on Ipad or on Macbook (on bigger screen, it is...
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    Do you use your main iCloud account on developer devices?

    I am eager to try the beta, I have so far installed it on an old XS using an extra iCloud account. I am thinking about trying it out on my iPad Pro m1. Are you guys using a spare iCloud account on your devices where you install the beta?
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    iCloud Notes not syncing between iCloud and Mac

    My notes sync between my iPhone and iCloud no problem. But they will not sync between my macbook (15" macbook pro 2018 model) and icloud or icloud and the macbook. This started about two weeks ago. I thought it might be because the icloud drive was full, so i cleared that out. Nope. I signed out...
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    Mojave and iCloud Support

    Hi all I was using MacBook Pro 2017 and High Sierra 10.13.6 Recently photo taken using iPhone 6s wasn't upload to Photos App in the MackBook Pro. The photos available in iCloud and also upload to Photos App in iPhone. iCloud still has free space arounf 3 GB. Text save in iCloud also not...
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    Contact Issue

    Please move post if necessary. I have a phone, mac and iPad all running the latest versions. I noticed on devices and Mac the Contacts are different but my devices match what is in iCloud. I am signed in to all devices and Screen Time is turned off across the board. iCloud- Contacts match...
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    Resolved Notes on MacBook now blank

    All of a sudden new notes via iOS devices didn't appear on my MacBook Notes app. I turned Notes icon off in iCloud settings on mac, then when I turned Notes on again all the Notes disappeared. I've turned iCloud on and off again, and deleted containers/com.apple.Notes, restarted etc. None of...
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    iCloud Acting...Weird? iMessages Pins and Safari Bookmarks

    Today I have experienced a few very weird issues with iCloud, iMessage, and Safari bookmarks. Ill list them below in the order that they happened. 1. All but 1 of the 9 pinned message threads I had in the Messages app disappeared. Eight threads became unpinned with only my wife's pin (which was...
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    iCloud iCloud mistakes new MacBook Pro (14", 2021) for old MacBook Pro (13", 2015); makes it impossible to sync Safari data or use Airdrop

    Hi, This is subtle and confusing issue. I bought a new 14" MBP to replace my aging 2015 13" MBP back in November. However, since then, iCloud features in Safari have been intermittent to unusable. iCloud tabs do not work, at all. The Reading List syncs intermittently and incompletely. Handoff...
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    How to delete all iCloud messages ? [iMessage]

    I have all conversations deleted on all my apple devices. Newest Mac OS and iOS installed. Tried sign in and off with Apple ID. Still showing these 286,2 MB of data but no conversions etc. Is there any way to delete all to zero Data?
  10. hassiman

    Question on iPhone images stored on iCloud, Amazon Photos/Google Photos

    I am trying to figure out what the best digital image storage is for me. I generally have just used iCloud to store images taken with my iPhone. The only downside for me here is that I am under the impression that any photos deleted from my iPhone will also be deleted from iCloud.... Is This...
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    iCloud Keep files on icloud but not on mac

    Hi. I've had a search in the forum but I can't find anything recent on this - apologies if I've missed a previous post. So, I've got my music on an external HD attached to my Mac. I'd like to back the music files up to iCloud, but not have them on my internal HD because they're already stored...
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    Other (Important) iPhone and iCloud

    I had an iphone 6 and I lost it. later on i bought another iphone 6 and put the iCloud backup from the old iphone to the new one. It's been a year. Can I recover the original iCloud backup from the first iphone or has it been overwritten by the new iphone?
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    Other iCloud backups (easy Question)

    If i stop using my iphone icloud will delete my backup after 180 without use. I have an iPad which is making copies in icloud regularly. Will the iPhone backup in icloud be deleted if I don't use it, or if I don't log in my Apple ID ever? because if i have an ipad, it will still use icloud, so i...
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    iCloud Custom Domain Migration and Archived Email

    I'm considering migrating a custom domain from another host to Apple/iCloud. I've reviewed the instructions and feel like I understand the basic procedure for migration. However, what happens to emails which are stored/archived at my current non-Apple host? Do I have to move them manually? If...
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    Contacts suddenly has multiple group copies

    On 2017 iMac running MacOS 10.14.6 and Contacts v12. I also have 2 iPhones and 1 iPad. I have contacts grouped into categories like "contractors", "friends," etc. Almost overnight (but maybe over a short time) they started duplicating themselves to where I now have about 4 copies of each group...
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    iPhone WhatsApp not Backing Up to iCloud

    So, I recently upgraded my iCloud plan to 200 GB ‘iCloud+’. The only purpose was to store my nearly 100 GB data from WhatsApp and secure it. My iPhone 12 Pro is 256 GB and almost full due to WhatsApp. In order to secure the data I tried backing up my chats and media to iCloud from WhatsApp...
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    Questions about Hide my email header information

    I have a question about Hide my Email. Suppose someone sends me an email to my HME. I reply to the email. Then, does the other person see my real email address in the header information of the email I sent, instead of the HME? As far as I have tried between my HME and gmail, the header...
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    Subscribed Calendar showing on Mac and iPad but not on iPhone

    I have a Subscribed Calendar which has been working fine on all of my devices for years. In recent weeks, I noticed that it's no longer displaying on my iPhone, although it's still displaying on my Mac and iPad. I've tried restarting the iPhone, toggling iCloud off and back on for Calendars...
  19. w4rm

    macOS Photos picker takes forever to load compared to iOS? How to fix?

    The picker in Desktop & Screen Save is always incomplete, it's not showing photos that aren't downloaded locally, whereas iOS shows all photos instantly. Am I missing something it's been this way for years and I'm not sure if it's just my own photos library, I've tried repairing it many times...
  20. maxoakland

    Time Machine and iCloud

    Does Time Machine back up files I put on iCloud? I’ve started storing more of my sporadically used files on iCloud but I’m not sure if they’re getting backed up onto time machine