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All iCloud Services Down for Some Users [Update: Fixed]

gijoeinla said:
Um that may absolutely nothing to do with iCloud, it's services etc...

My iPhone 6+ took some days to finish restoring from a backup...
Why?

I had 9000 photos, videos, etc at 40 gb...And one app was corrupted...Should I blame Apple for everything? Are they now too responsible for the viability all of my content, every single file, every single app, the web traffic at the time, your ISP's BS, etc etc etc?? Seriously.

People, its' OVER THE AIR... Do you expect miracles??

Btw -- restore only works if you LEAVE THE PHONE ALONE. If you are using the phone constantly -- like you can't put it down since its a new device, we've all been there -- that delays your backup completing.

In the scheme of things...take my iCloud -- I have an iPad back up, a 5s back up, a 5c back up, a 6+ back up, all under ONE iCloud account... Less than 3 years ago this was unheard of, so I think they are doing a pretty damn good job being able to manage my 9000 photos, videos etc and get them back onto my device OVER THE AIR....
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No need to go ape over my post :)

- I restored my iPhone 4S with this same backup last week (on 8.0), I also restored an iPad 3/Retina (on 8.0.2). This hang didn't occur on either.
- What has my ISP got to do with anything? My older iPods sync music and photos fine, there's a 34 page thread on the support forum about syncing problems introduced in iOS 7 that still haven't been fixed. I'd say it's down to Apple to at least make sure what used to sync fine in iOS 6 works in 7 and 8. Don't you agree?
- What's over the air? I'm doing this via iTunes, I thought the outage might be affecting authentication of my account. Please don't make assumptions about me.
- I have been leaving it alone? Please don't make assumptions about me. First restore when I got it: perfect, iPhone 4S and iPad 3 restores: perfect. Last few hours: not working.

I'm gutted to see Apple falling apart so much recently. It's like quality control and testing have just gone out the window.
 
genovelle said:
So the three times in one week that Google Drive was down in March for as long as 3 hours should really erode your confidence in them. Drop Box had a 3 hour outage in January of this year and several smaller ones since. They just don't get the same press that Apple does.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/26...gle-drive-hit-by-three-outages-this-week.html

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/01/10/dropbox-suffers-outage/
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My statement referred to this specific incident with iCloud but can be extended to any cloud service. In general I'm not a fan of them.
 
rorschach said:
Funny how when Google or Microsoft services go down (and they certainly do), few bat an eye.

An Apple service goes down even for 10 minutes and everyone goes nuts.
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Take a look at what happens when either company you mentioned announces a phone:


Funny how when Google or Microsoft release a phone (and they certainly do), few bat an eye.

Apple releases a new iPhone and everyone goes nuts.


It's because of the -> :apple:

gijoeinla said:
Um that may absolutely nothing to do with iCloud, it's services etc...

My iPhone 6+ took some days to finish restoring from a backup...
Why?

I had 9000 photos, videos, etc at 40 gb...And one app was corrupted...Should I blame Apple for everything? Are they now too responsible for the viability all of my content, every single file, every single app, the web traffic at the time, your ISP's BS, etc etc etc?? Seriously.

People, its' OVER THE AIR... Do you expect miracles??

Btw -- restore only works if you LEAVE THE PHONE ALONE. If you are using the phone constantly -- like you can't put it down since its a new device, we've all been there -- that delays your backup completing.

In the scheme of things...take my iCloud -- I have an iPad back up, a 5s back up, a 5c back up, a 6+ back up, all under ONE iCloud account... Less than 3 years ago this was unheard of, so I think they are doing a pretty damn good job being able to manage my 9000 photos, videos etc and get them back onto my device OVER THE AIR....
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Take it easy champ lol! :eek:
 
NY Guitarist said:
I don't get the joke. What so funny about not being confident in having one's data on a remote server?

Enlighten me...

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Certainly cloud services in general, but I was referring specifically to Apple's iCloud services in this particular context.
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Dude, like I said in my case, a 40gb back up with 9000 photo and video files and 300 apps, documents, data etc etc...Yea I think under the circumstances iCloud for me has worked pretty good to date as I myself have lost NO DATA due to Apple "maintaining my backups" for me AND you. Just because there have been outages -- so far -- they haven't proved to be unreliable in fact the opposite is true, no?
 
ChazSch said:
even if its on dropbox, I have a backup (somewhere)
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Everyone should have a backup of their cloud, regardless of provider. I use OneDrive on my laptop, my iCloud Drive syncs to that, and that is all synced with an external drive weekly.

Financial, health, and other sensitive data are backed up on two IronKey drives(each at different locations).
 
The difference between Dropbox and iCloud is that Dropbox is linked to your file system, so you can back up your files yourself. It's totally transparent - it's a file manager. Add any files, organize them in folders as you please, back up, etc. AND it doesn't throw millions of dialog boxes at you prompting to enter your password when the service is down. So when Dropbox is down, I don't even notice it, b/c chances of it being down and me actively using it at the same time are almost nil. But with iCloud down, your iPhone becomes a brick... relentlessly annoying brick.
 
samiznaetekto said:
The difference between Dropbox and iCloud is that Dropbox is linked to your file system, so you can back up your files yourself. It's totally transparent - it's a file manager. Add any files, organize them in folders as you please, back up, etc. AND it doesn't throw millions of dialog boxes at you prompting to enter your password when the service is down. So when Dropbox is down, I don't even notice it, b/c chances of it being down and me actively using it at the same time are almost nil. But with iCloud down, your iPhone becomes a brick... relentlessly annoying brick.
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Really a Brick? Ya sure.
 
samiznaetekto said:
The difference between Dropbox and iCloud is that Dropbox is linked to your file system, so you can back up your files yourself. It's totally transparent - it's a file manager. Add any files, organize them in folders as you please, back up, etc. AND it doesn't throw millions of dialog boxes at you prompting to enter your password when the service is down. So when Dropbox is down, I don't even notice it, b/c chances of it being down and me actively using it at the same time are almost nil. But with iCloud down, your iPhone becomes a brick... relentlessly annoying brick.
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lol... :rolleyes:
 
samiznaetekto said:
The difference between Dropbox and iCloud is that Dropbox is linked to your file system, so you can back up your files yourself. It's totally transparent - it's a file manager. Add any files, organize them in folders as you please, back up, etc. AND it doesn't throw millions of dialog boxes at you prompting to enter your password when the service is down. So when Dropbox is down, I don't even notice it, b/c chances of it being down and me actively using it at the same time are almost nil. But with iCloud down, your iPhone becomes a brick... relentlessly annoying brick.
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...? How does it become a brick? Last I checked you could still browse, call, etc, even if iCloud is down...
 
Jeez Apple, get your act together... Lately its one problem after another!

Nobody is perfect, but I expect Apple to be the best and I'm not used to so see many mistakes/problems in such a short time from Apple!

Steve is turning around in his grave ;)
 
kerrikins said:
...? How does it become a brick? Last I checked you could still browse, call, etc, even if iCloud is down...
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It constantly interrupts whatever you're doing by throwing "enter your icloud password" and "failed to connect to icloud" modal dialogs.
 
deviant said:
Yeah sure, cause if your home server goes down because your ISP ducked something up and your internet is down YOU are the one who fixes it. You actually CAN do something about it.. Suuuuuuure...
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No, you don't get it. I need to be able to access my files in my time to do my work. The ISP has nothing to do with that. I like my data local so I have it on my machine. There is no need for storing it in the cloud. In fact, the cloud is horribly insecure as well as sporadically unavailable.

Of course, I realize you may not have the technical skills to keep your self going but many of us do.
 
webbuzz said:
Everyone should have a backup of their cloud, regardless of provider.
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Absolutely, positively not. The Cloud IS the backup. The instant that the Cloud becomes unreliable or unavailable is the instant it loses its value.

We may think that losing access to iCloud for just a little while is really no big deal. For individual consumers, that is most often the case. But Apple wants to play in the big time with Google, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and the rest of the major Cloud players, where companies put billions of dollars worth of enterprise data into their Cloud environments. Apple better get their act together before they get run out of that town. Coupled with their recent security issues, this kind of outage is amateur hour.
 
pubwvj said:
No, you don't get it. I need to be able to access my files in my time to do my work. The ISP has nothing to do with that. I like my data local so I have it on my machine. There is no need for storing it in the cloud. In fact, the cloud is horribly insecure as well as sporadically unavailable.

Of course, I realize you may not have the technical skills to keep your self going but many of us do.
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You need to raise your READING skills because he said "my data, MY SERVERS". There is certain data that isn't very useful having locally. There is some data you may need RIGHT NOW, RIGHT ON THIS DEVICE, being you ANYWHERE on this planet, automatically synchronized (having technical skills is one thing, doing the same operation everyday manually is craziness). If all you got are 1000 pics of your ugly baby - then store it locally. Some people have more important things going on. Some people have terabytes of data they can't have on EVERY SINGLE DEVICE at the same time, locally. Some people don't have only "my machine" but "10 machines" or "20 machines". If you can't see the benefits of the cloud it's no ones fault. Next time you wanna teach me you better be prepared.
 
I've had it with icloud - it never worked smoothly for me, has messed up my passwords, and been the most un-Apple-like product Apple has ever released.
 
I sure hope users had backups not in cloud...

If you were relying on this, then those that got their only copy deleted.... well,,, u just got a valuable lesson. And hopefully u learn something from it.
 
rorschach said:
Funny how when Google or Microsoft services go down (and they certainly do), few bat an eye.

An Apple service goes down even for 10 minutes and everyone goes nuts.
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This just shows that Apple is held to a higher standard, including by its detractors...
 
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