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Warning: Apple will soon start ‘analyzing’ your iCloud data and personal files

Posted on February 2, 2017

Apple is planning to release iOS 10.3 before long, and with that update will come several significant changes to the operating system.

I believe most of those changes will be good ones, but there’s one that concerns me.

Beginning with iOS 10.3, Apple will start “analyzing” your iCloud data to “help them improve intelligent features and services such as Siri and other similar or related services.”

In a nutshell, that means Apple will soon start scanning your email, your notes, your contacts, your photos, your calendar, Keychain, Find My iPhone, your iTunes items and all the various files you have stored on iCloud.  [Read more…]

Q&A: How do I exclude the pictures on my iPhone from my iCloud backups?

Posted on September 19, 2016

icloud-logoQuestion from Taylor K.:  Hi Rick! I have a question about iCloud backups that I hope you can answer for me.

I took your advice and set my iPhone to automatically back everything up to iCloud. Today I noticed that my backups have just about used up all my iCloud storage, and most of that space is taken up by my pictures.

Is there any way to exclude the pictures on my iPhone from the iCloud backups? I always copy the pictures I take to my computer anyway so I don’t really need them backed up to iCloud too.

Rick’s answer:   [Read more…]

How to backup or restore your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with iCloud

Posted on September 15, 2015

ios-logo-2If you have an Phone, iPad or iPod Touch you probably have tons of apps, photos, music and other files on your device(s).

Making regular backups will ensure that you’ll be able to easily restore all of those precious items if something should ever happen to your device.

You have several options when deciding how to back up your iOS device, but my preferred method by far is backing up to your iCloud account. If you’d like to use iCloud to store your backups as well, here’s how to do it:  [Read more…]

Apple: iOS 8 to include ‘Two-Factor Authentication’ for iCloud

Posted on September 5, 2014

apple-logoAs you probably know, Apple is taking a ton of heat after several celebrities had their iCloud accounts hacked and risque photos stolen and published online. Well, the company is apparently taking steps to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, the soon-to-be-released iOS 8 will include an option for enabling “Two-Factor Authentication” on all iCloud accounts.

Two-Factor Authentication has been around for some time now, so it’s something of a mystery why it took such a high profile security breach to prompt Apple to finally make it available for their popular iCloud service.  [Read more…]

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