mobile Me to iCloud move - DON"T DO IT !!!!
Do NOT NOT NOT move to iCloud.
I, too, have been in love with Mobile Me for several years now. I migrated to iCloud day after iPhone5 was available. Have NOTHING but trouble since then. apple doesn't know how to fix- or won't admit there's a problem- but I have spent many hours on the phone with them and they are unable to solve my problems. Each time they end up saying..."Well, when that finishes, you should be working fine. Call back if you're not"
Calendar items don't sync about 99% of the time- although, occassionally, one appt actually WILL pop through to all the devices and calendars. Contacts? Fuggedaboudit. Most of the time, when I click on the "Contacts" on my iphone, I have a totally blank, white page. Same for the "phone" icon- so you can't even call your "Favorites" or even get a phone keypad to dial a number if you know it. In those cases the only way I can make a call is to work backwards from an existing text message.
I have "contacts" and "phone" available on my phone about 30% of the time. Rest of the time- just not there. SOMETIMES- hard re-boot of the phone brings them back- but usually not.
Having become SO dependent on my phone for contacts and calendars, I feel really helpless.
FYI, I have set up my iCloud to sync with Outlook on a PC- Maybe if you're not trying to do that you'll have better luck- but it sure seems to me that iCloud is NOT "ready for prime-time"
Once you do the "mobileme/move" you can't go back. You can still access me.com but you cannot migrate back to the MM system. Since you still have access to it until June 2012... stay with it and hope that apple figures this out. I'm so SICK Of being on the phone with them- and having no contacts- losing appts etc.
I guess I have to give up and sync calendar/contacts thru wired itunes sync but that really defeats the purpose. geeeeeshhhh !
DON"T DO IT !!!!
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Do any of you guys notice a change in speed with iCloud after switching from MobileMe? The demos sure made iCloud look like syncs were instantaneous between devices. I usually notice some lag time (but not much) for all of my devices to update with MobileMe.
on the rare ocassion that icloud even SYNCS my calendar items... it is VERY sluggish. LIKE ABOUT 12 HOURS SLUGGISH !
And that's when it syncs events AT ALL... which is only about 1% of the time.
This was SOOO not ready for heavy users with Outlook synchronization. I bought 64GB phone so I wouldn't have to worry- and end up having to archive everything over 30 days old in Outlook before I can even set up iCloud at ALL. Yet, iCloud says I'm only using 3 of 25GB of space.
This STINKS !!!
I'd pay the subscription AGAIN to be able to go back to Mobile Me
