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Questions tagged [icloud]

Apple's online storage, synchronization, and general cloud services

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iCloud stores your music, photos, apps, contacts, calendars, and more, and wirelessly pushes them to iOS devices and Macs running iOS 5 or OS X 10.7 Lion or later, respectively. iCloud is integrated with your apps, so everything happens automatically.

This tag can be used for several aspects of iCloud. It can include anything synced using iCloud, iCloud backups, iCloud storage space and the iCloud Drive app.

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Spam iCloud Calendar Invitations

Today I've suddenly received spam calendar invitation for $19.99 Ray Ban sunglasses (never subscribed, checked, searched or visited any related site, so clearly spam) and it has other visible email accounts within the invitation. I'm wondering if I…
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Why is the accountsd process eating so much CPU?

Why are the accountsd and securityd processes using so much CPU on OS X 10.10.3? I am on a Early 2011 Macbook Pro. What are these processes for? Is it safe to kill them? The machine has only been up 4 hours so has been rebooted recently.
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How to convert a HEIF/HEIC image to JPEG in macOS?

So, here’s the thing. I have a new iPhone and an old Mac. iOS 11 (still in beta as of today) and El Capitan (no more updates for this Mac). I use iCloud photo library in both devices. When I take a photo in the new format with my iPhone 7, is there…
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How to exclude a sub folder from iCloud drive in macOS Sierra?

I have my Documents folder synced with iCloud drive, I want to exclude some sub folders from the iCloud drive is there a way to achieve this?
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iCloud Drive is stuck uploading items and no longer syncs

I got the macOS Sierra update when it went into public beta, and I've been trying to use the automatic Desktop / Documents upload feature with iCloud Drive. I've enabled the feature, however since September 7 no files have been uploaded. By this…
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Can I trust Apple support and share my password?

I have problem with iCloud backup on my iPhone. After several calls to the Russian department of Apple support they suggest me to change my AppleID password temporarily to an test password proposed by the support specialist to see what's going on…
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How can I bypass Activation Lock?

I bought a used iPhone 4. The previous owner re-set the phone, but did not remove the device from their iCloud. It is asking me for their iCloud information when I try to set-up the phone. I don't have contact with the previous owner anymore. Is…
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How to know what nsurlsessiond is downloading

I turned off all iCloud drive stuff and it seems something else is using it. I don't have photo sharing and photo syncing on between my Mac and iPhone. And I've turned off whatever I can. But still nsurlsessiond downloads over 400 MBs every time it…
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iCloud Drive Won't Sync on Mac

iCloud Drive on my Mac (10.13.3) won't sync. My other devices perform perfectly, as does icloud.com. Any change made on one immediately propagates to the others. Changes made to iCloud Drive on my Mac go nowhere. The cloud icon displays…
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What are some best practices for a family sharing a single Apple ID?

My family shares an apple ID, and I can't chose whose contacts I want to sync with when I set up Icloud. For example, I own a Mac and an iPhone. I want my content to only be synced between MY Mac and MY iPhone. Instead, everything including my…
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Link to a note in Apple Notes, from another note

In Apple Notes on the Mac, is it possible to reference a note from within another note (by way of hyperlink)? So, for example, if I had two notes: Thoughts about pastries Pastries are great. Truly wonderful treats. But you know what my favorite…
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iCloud has space but iCloud Backup says that I don't have enough to complete a backup

I use 120 MB of iCloud storage space for iCloud Backup of my iPad & iPhone. There is still 4.8 GB free from 5 GB, but I have a notification in iPad's backup window that I'm lacking space to back up to iCloud and would rather not buy more space to…
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How do I view my iCloud Photo Stream online?

I set up iCloud when I installed iOS 5 on my iPhone and was excited about Photo Stream. I logged into icloud.com and found there are no photos. What gives? I was hoping that this would end the need to selectively pull photos off my phone, then…
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Why am I seeing "Your network settings prevent content from loading privately" in the mail apps after updating Pi-hole?

After a recent update to my Pi-hole server, I'm now seeing the warning "Your network settings prevent content from loading privately" above email messages in the Mail apps in iOS/iPadOS 15.x and macOS v12 (Monterey) when I'm connected to my home…
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Selectively disable iCloud keychain syncing for WiFi passwords

I have iCloud Keychain sync enabled, but I want to stop it syncing WiFi passwords. I have a portable WiFi hotspot which I use for my laptop and iPad, but I don't want my iPhone to connect to it since it has it's own 3G Because iCloud is syncing the…
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