How does iCloud work? Plus a new version of Cirrus
I'm going to be in the minority here, but I don't want Apple (or Android or anybody) syncing my documents, photos, or passwords. I'll do my own local backups or backups to a server I control, or at the very least using encryption that I control if it's going to a server I don't control.<p>iCloud and every other kind of automated syncing is so damn complicated that I don't know everything that gets backed up, when it gets backed up, if it's encrypted, and whether or not Apple (or whatever company) guarantees to me that the data is encrypted in such a way that they can't read it. Even the OP calls parts of it "exceedingly complex".<p>I was hoping the article was going to have some good tips on how to disable iCloud with absolute finality. Every time I get a new iPhone, or after an iOS update, or after configuration changes I have to go around and click off syncing in obscure places, and Siri too.<p>Have you noticed that on a new phone, after transferring over your data <i>locally</i> (not through iCloud), it'll start syncing them to iCloud without even asking you? Furthermore, even after you've turned it off, it gets re-enabled under some unspecified conditions that I've never figured out (after iOS updates?), so you have to forever keep checking.<p>Macs have been auto-saving your documents to iCloud by default since at least 2014 (OS X Yosemite).<p>I find it pretty amazing how most people are now OK with a third party keeping a copy of every document and photo of their lives.