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Apple Merging 'iCloud Documents and Data' Service With iCloud Drive in May 2022
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Hopefully this will happen without the need for app development if the Documents & Data API was used correctly. I would love to see all the folders appear in Files/Finder so I can see things like my 1Password file and my FTL save (and other games too!).
Or three (or more), one inaccessible, for former employees from back in the early days of itools/mobileme/dotmac/etc. Good thing I didn't have many purchases tied to the \@Apple one.
And replace it with what? At this point, I don't think it would be easy to get rid of iCloud integration within the OS and apps.
I agree that document syncing is often hit or miss. Apple Notes can be the same way.
Easy not a requirement for change. Accounts like Amazon and Google. My photos are sharable and so is the account. My choice. Want to share it all with you, ok done. Control things like music via the app and server for features like several streams and what level of service. Cloud like dropbox and again Amazon, Google cloud services. Security handled at the server level. Apple just over-complicated a straightforward process.
Apparently I was wrong and if you’re already an iCloud Drive user, nothing will change.
Too bad: I would love for Apple to retire the app folders. I want to structure my documents according to topic or project, never according to app.
Which I can obviously do right now, but it still triggers my OCD the other folder structure is there as well. And for many iOS apps they’re still the default location.
I’ve been having an issue with Mojave from the previous beta up to now where my notes don’t even show up on the Mac. There is a list but each not says additional text. I’ve reported the bug for the last 4 public betas. I’ll add the notes show up fine on my iPad running the 14.6 beta and my iPhone on 14.5.1.
Of course you could only merge if the two accounts have identical data. Owner, address, credit card. Once merged that’s it.
So a married couple would use familiy sharing. Not merging accounts
On a related note, and actually I think it is the same note, Photos is super slow synching, for me at least. I believe it's part of iCloud Drive
Note that nowhere in https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211995 does Apple ever say the word "backup".
Apple goes out of their way to say that iCloud Drive, iCloud Photo Library, etc, are not a backup.
It's an Apple-provided internet service. Why would you bother with it in the first place?
I've had my same AppleID since the second iPhone, and I've never had more than one. Why would I need more than one?
I've you've only been using Apple products since the second iPhone, you're a relative newbie, which is why you would only have one Apple ID. Long before iCloud and Apple ID became one and the same, there was MobileMe, dotMac, and iTools–in addition to a separate Apple ID for things like warranties and repairs to be linked to.
As Apple went from transitioning their email/account services from iTools to dotMac to MobileMe to iCloud many users ended up with two or more Apple ID's over the years. Some may have been tied to their first iTunes Store account, while others might have been tied to their Mac App Store login when that came into being, for example.
In short, this multiple ID issue then became a major problem when Apple decided one Apple ID should rule them all (Apple account and Apple services). Many of us now had media or apps we purchased linked to different Apple IDs, which meant we would need to log into certain Apple ID's on, for example, our iPhone to access our iTunes Music Store purchases, and another Apple ID on our Mac to access our Mac App Store app purchases.
It's just a big cluster ****. And if you don't know what we are talking about, count yourself as the lucky one.