Is iCloud the worst tech product?
What a nightmare. It backs up without you asking it to. Then for the rest of its lifecyle, it just complains you don’t have enough storage… settings/photos, your most commonly used apps letting you know (with pop ups). How do you solve it? Via a local app? Nope, its a website, that you have to know about. Then when you try to delete the backup data, it tries to delete the original data… why? That’s not how backups work. Buy a new apple product, start the process all over again
iCloud is a syncing mechanism not a storage box. You take a photo on one device, it gets pushed to all other devices. You edit a photo on one device, all devices get it. Delete a photo on a device, and it gets deleted everywhere. The idea is for simplicity. If you decide to use iCloud, it just works. Just use your device as you normally would. No changes or setup. There’s no scary central hub you have to go to manage your data. You just manage data on any device as if they were all the same device. No URL to remember, and no extra system you have to learn. iCloud isn’t like Dropbox or some s3 bucket where the cloud storage is the source of truth. iCloud, all devices are the source of truth (not in technical terms, but by UX design)
If what you were saying was true you wouldn’t need a tiered storage subscription account. It’s absolutely centrally saved but is also synced across devices. It also serves smaller resolution copies to those devices by default and only downloads full resolution when you view it. You also store notes/documents/files in iCloud so I don’t know what you mean by it isn’t a central storage mechanism like Dropbox. That’s literally what it’s doing… there’s an http link for iCloud you can view all the stored photos and files on apple servers.
Read my last sentence. And yes. This still applies to files or anything. Save a file on one Mac, move to another Mac and it should feel like the same Mac.
Is it too much for you to pay like $2/month for a terabyte of storage?
Is that how it works? Is it too much for you to send me $1 a month for me to stop posting complaints?
Switch to android, that’s how it works. Make less photos, that how it works. Install less apps, this is how it works. You are unbelievably cheap.
It doesn’t backup without you asking it. You must have set it up incorrectly
I’m honestly not sure when it asked me if I want to use iCloud, but somehow I spent half an hour figuring out how to clean it up and disable it, then my phone had an issue and I had to reset it, lost all my data, which I didn’t care about, then couple months later bam, it’s full again. Also I still can’t figure out how to intuitively erase everything from iCloud without deleting the originals lol. I have to google it every. Fing. Time
Apple products are designed to get more money out of customers pockets Works as designed. Closed
Idk, i was on samsung for a couple years and that wasn’t smooth sailing either.