Unfortunately for everyone, Apple just took a page out of Facebook’s playbook.
One day after Facebook suffered a massive outage, a wide array of Apple services are down for some users. Offerings including Find My iPhone, Find My Friends, News, …
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Apple’s iCloud is having an outage, too
Facebook has only just recovered from one of its worst outages to date, and Gmail and Google Drive also experienced a worldwide outage this week. Now, apparently, it’s Apple’s turn. According to the company’s System Status dashboard, a number of iCloud services are experiencing issues, including iCloud Drive, Mail, Calendar, Notes, Keychain, Reminders, iWork, Photos, […]
View More Apple’s iCloud is having an outage, tooHow to download your data from Apple
Good news! Apple now allows U.S. customers to download a copy of their data, months after rolling out the feature to EU customers. But don’t be disappointed when you get your download and find there’s almost nothing in there. Earlier this year when I requested my own data (before the portal feature rolled out), Apple […]
View More How to download your data from AppleYou can play Alto’s Adventure on your Mac now
Everyone’s favorite endless, serene snowboarding game just made the leap from mobile to the Mac App Store. Available now for $9.99, Alto’s Adventure for Mac is a desktop port of the side-scrolling snowscape game that’s won hearts and accolades since it first hit iOS in 2015. Earlier this year, the team behind Alto’s Adventure introduced […]
View More You can play Alto’s Adventure on your Mac nowApple iCloud data in China now stored by state-owned company
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A state-owned telecommunications company in China now stores the iCloud data for Apple’s China-based users. This is really bad news for dissidents and critics of the government.
In February, Apple caused an uproar when it announced it would be moving Chinese users’ iCloud accounts — and their encryption keys — to a China-based server company Guizhou-Cloud Big Data. Human rights advocates warned this move would be dangerous, especially so for Chinese dissidents. Apple’s response was that it simply had no choice but to comply if it wanted to continue providing its iCloud service to Chinese customers. Read more…
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View More Apple iCloud data in China now stored by state-owned companyTransfer.sh is an instant sharing tool for programmers
File sharing tools are a dime a dozen these days. There’s Dropbox, Google Drive, and iCloud. But what if you want to share something quickly and easily from the command line? That’s why programmer Remco Verhoef created Transfer.sh. The service has basically a file dump. You send a file to transfer.sh via curl and it […]
View More Transfer.sh is an instant sharing tool for programmersiOS 11.4 is here to sync your iMessages across all of your Apple devices
Get your iPhones and iPads out because iOS 11.4 is now available for download.
For iOS users, the software update finally adds the long-awaited Messages in iCloud feature, which syncs your iMessages across all of your Apple devices. iOS 11.4 also bri…
Apple is giving away a month of free iCloud storage to new subscribers
Listen up, digital hoarders.
Apple apparently wants more of its customers to cough up the (relatively small amounts of) dough for premium iCloud storage. Spotted by AppleInsider, the tech giant is running a new complimentary month promotion to ease p…
I finally caved and bought more storage on Google Drive, iCloud
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I held out for as long as I could.
I transferred music files to flash drives, deleted massive photo files, and purged outdated email newsletters clogging my storage. Every email from Groupon went into the trash and was permanently deleted. No more chances to go back and “soak up savings.” I was on top of it. The trash button became my friend; archiving the enemy. This is what using Google’s free email service in 2018 looked like for me.
But I couldn’t win — a red banner above my Gmail inbox threatened to cut off my inbound emails and I was tired of constantly deleting everything. The whole point of my personal email was to have a record of everything. I might have a newsletter addiction, but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be able to use my email archive. Read more…
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View More I finally caved and bought more storage on Google Drive, iCloudApple now relies on Google Cloud Platform and Amazon S3 for iCloud data
It’s no secret, Apple has been relying on third-party cloud companies for iCloud. And CNBC spotted an interesting tidbit in Apple’s own documents. The company now relies on Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Platform’s storage product to store iCloud data. Back in 2016, CRN reported that Apple signed with Google for cloud storage. But Apple’s document represents the first… Read More
Apple stores some iCloud objects on Google’s cloud
After some speculation, Apple has finally confirmed that it uses Google Cloud Services for iCloud storage. The admission was made in the company’s most recent update to its iOS Security Guide, spotted by CNBC.
The Security Guide has previously …
Apple moves iCloud encryption keys for Chinese users to China
Apple told Reuters that the company had to comply with Chinese authorities and move iCloud data to Chinese data centers. Not everyone’s data is moving to China. This is only going to apply to residents of mainland China who chose China as their main country when they created their Apple account (not Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan). The Chinese government can now ask Apple to decrypt… Read More