Comment by JustExAWS
1 month ago
Do you start fresh with an iOS installation after each upgrade or do you back up your iPhone using your computer and iTunes?
1 month ago
Do you start fresh with an iOS installation after each upgrade or do you back up your iPhone using your computer and iTunes?
I do not have anything backed up on any cloud servers on any provider. If I had to buy a new phone I would start from a fresh installation and move all of my data locally. It's not that I'm a "luddite", I just couldn't keep track of all of the different ways each cloud provider was managing my data, so I disabled all of them.
If only Apple had a centralized backup service that could store everything automatically at a click of a button so you wouldn’t have to juggle multiple cloud providers…
Not all apps support Apple’s backup solution. Threema and Signal come to mind.
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I kinda was somewhat with you until this point.
Apple IS just another cloud provider / centralized backup service. It's not fundamentally different than others, and if you're not in select group of whatever the respectful term is for those who stay strictly inside apple ecosystem, you will have multiple clouds and multiple data sets and multiple backups that all interact with each other and your heterogeneous devices in unpredictable ways. Icloud will not help you with that any more than google cloud or Samsung cloud etc. They all want to own all of your stuff, neither is simply a hyper helpful neutral director.
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