icloud

I bought a bunch of hue bulbs recently. I put them in the entrance of my house, my bathroom, my bedroom, and another bedroom. There is a den that has no hue bulbs, but it has an Apple TV that acts as a hub. The "other" bedroom (that has a hue bulb) has its own Apple TV that uses a separate...

My MBP is about to head in for some upgrades (the guy who does the work is backed up and lives an hour away). So, I'm going to be using my wife's 2015 MBP 2.5i7 512ssd (heck of a machine that I bought legitimately for $1,100.00 a year ago thanks to a friend owning a pawn shop), which means I...

iCloud is doing some strange things with some of my emails. I use iCloud.com address for my personal email and use an old @gmail address for everything else. Gmail forwards all my emails to iCloud. In the past few months I have been getting these strange emails that say a message was blocked...

iCloud Reminders used to send Email Notifications every time an item was added to a list, when the list was shared with other family members. It would then send reminders as items were completed. This feature no longer sees ms to work and I have ensured that "Send Email Reminders" is turned on...

In the process of transferring my data from an iPhone 6s (with a broken "Home" button) to my "new" iPhone 6, I was prompted to enter the password for an Apple ID that I recognized but isn't mine. My new iPhone isn’t actually new, but it was wiped clean. The owner of the Apple ID I was prompted...

Okay, so I recently bought a pair of iPhone 6 online, but when I received them, they were both passcode locked and had find my iPhone activated. My question is, is there any way I can factory reset the phones or without hitting the dreaded activation lock? Thanks!

I have yet to turn on the icloud Imessage function on my ios12 iphone. I have years worth of messages sms/imessages and i'm wondering what should ideally happen if i turn this function on? The intent and hopes are that both the sms and Imessages get uploaded to the cloud. then when i turn...

iPhone 6+ will not back up to iCloud, keeps repeating that a back up could not be completed tried multiple times: 1. signing in/out of icloud 2. reset network settings 3. reset all settings 4. turning iPhone on/off, soft/hard reset 5. turned off wifi assist can't be wifi/router as 2 iPads...

Hello, I have about 20,000 photos in iCloud library. that I uploaded, but now I have cleaned up a lot of those photos on my mac in photos. if I turn on Photo library again to sync my photos, will it keep all the old photos and add the new photos that I have imported and modified or will it ask...

Hi All, wondering if you can help with this one. In the event if you lose your iPhone and wants to sign into iCloud to disable (or lock, or erase) your iPhone. Would Two-Factor Authentication stop you from doing so? (i.e. does it require you to have your iPhone with you in order to log into...

So a few months ago I consolidated a few different Photos libraries into 1 iCloud library. I have like a TB of space on iCloud. The consolidation went well and was working as expected for about a month. Suddenly as of 12/31/18, Photos on my Mac will not download any new items from iCloud. I...

With all the recent news regarding Facebook's data-hoovering app, entire databases of stolen passwords and general debate about privacy or the lack thereof, I was wondering whether Apple is still actively focusing on improving security on their iCloud service? It's actually been three years...

Hello all, I have problems with keychain on my MacBook. After an update I was not able to login. It turned out to be changed keyboard layout but before I realised it, I have changed password in Recovery Mode. When I finally logged in, there was a problem with iCloud. After several tries I...

I have wondered for a while, but in my iCloud storage summary it has categories for backups, docs, and photos listed. It lists that I am using 1.9 GB on “Docs,” but when I click “Manage Storage” besides the backups and photos there is only a few megabytes in things like Pages, Numbers, and a...

I'm having this issue with a couple different apps so I'm trying to pinpoint who's to blame: the apps, my iPad, or something with my iCloud account. Basically when I open some apps (specifically I'm noticing it with Touchable Pro and Beatmaker 3 on my iPad, pretty much every time I open them)...

Hey. I've made a real schoolboy error by deleting my iMovie data on my phone (dont from settings) from iCloud so, therefore none of my Theatre movies are there. They have deleted across all of my devices. Is there anyway I can get them back? I cannot recreate them as the master files are...

I have been trying to free up storage on my parent's iCloud, they rarely use it so don't want to pay for a storage tier. 4.8 of their 5G is listed as taken up by 'Documents' I have gone through iCloud drive (no files) and each of their devices and turned off iCloud backups of all devices and...

Should I Automatically backup my iPhone to "iCloud" or "This Computer" See image below. What are the pros and cons of backing up to "iCloud" vs. "This Computer" ??

Mail is taking up a ton of room in my iCloud acct and on my iPhone. I'm trying to find old emails with large attachments to free space, but I can't seem to figure out how to sort by size. Anyone able to help?