Bug in iOS 8's 'Reset All Settings' Option Also Erases iCloud Drive Documents

[cmaier]

Anyone tried to replicate this? I'm really curious since I can't seem to get the symptoms to occur, and I'm wondering what I'm doing differently.

 

[applehound]

Impossible time-lapse video

show me a single video of a phone bending in front pockets, please. not just a bunch of dumbasses trying to break them on purpose.

To be fair, it would be kind of tough for him to create a video of a phone bending over time. In a pocket. On a human.

But yeah, point well taken.

 

[HiRez]

No, I'm talking about "Sign Out" at the bottom of the iCloud settings, and not resetting the device...at least my iPad is still saying it.

You must not be running 8.0.2. The screenshot I linked, I just captured it off my iPhone 6 Plus running 8.0.2. That is what pops up when you hit "Sign Out" in iCloud Settings. And just tested it on my iPad Air as well (also running 8.0.2), the popup also now says "Sign Out".

 

[OzyOly]

The iOS QA manager needs to be sacked imedently. Tim Cook is being to soft. This release is in the same scope as Apple maps in terms of being a mess.

And Apple maps is still a mess!

 

[riverfreak]

I have to say I am rapidly losing faith in Apple's ability to run a consumer cloud environment. I will not be using iCloud Photo Library, or entrusting my most important documents to iCloud Drive.

Apple has a lot to learn from Dropbox. How about document versioning to start off? And a Trash Folder? And under no circumstances allowing a user to delete all their data with one click, without the ability to revert/undo/restore?

100% spot on.

 

[yaxomoxay]

And Apple maps is still a mess!

At least it made my kid laugh for ten minutes when Maps told me to do an O-turn... basically to go back to the same place I was.

 

[JD92]

Anyone tried to replicate this? I'm really curious since I can't seem to get the symptoms to occur, and I'm wondering what I'm doing differently.

I experienced this and emailed it in to MacRumors. My original thread is here https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1792050/

 

[thekeyring]

8 is becoming a very infamous version number thanks to iOS 8 and Windows 8.

 

[Analog Kid]

No Scott Forstall

I've noticed Forstall has a bit of a cult following that pops up every now and then. One of these days I'm going to do a search and see if it's the same people promoting him, or if his support is broad based.

I was never a Forstall fan, but maybe what we're seeing is that he lacked vision, had horrible taste, but could make the trains run on time. Apple needs someone minding the trains.

I'm sure apple wishes they can go back in time with ios8...pretty horrible qa.

As long as they go back to some time after .Mac, which was the last debacle of this magnitude.

 

[cmaier]

I experienced this and emailed it in to MacRumors. My original thread is here https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1792050/

Hmm. Wonder what's different. I'm not using my developer iCloud account, so nothing special there...

 

[caprica21]

Imagine someone resets his phone when Tim Cook is about to go on stage for presentation.
This is bad.

 

[cube]

8 is becoming a very infamous version number thanks to iOS 8 and Windows 8.

I think because while in Asia 8 is a lucky number, in USA it would be 7.

 

[tennisproha]

Actually, these days, I think IBM could do a lot to help fix what's wrong with Apple's cloud services. Apple has always struggled with web services.

Good point. Esp since they've got that enterprise partnership now.

 

[irnchriz]

To be fair, this guy looks as if he could bend more than a phone, if he were to sit on it
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His fat ass could bend diamonds.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Come on guys. this is clearly a feature!

You wipe your phone, your iCloud gets wiped too. It's called Jennifer-Lawrenced!!!

If you try to turn off iCloud in Yosemite, it warns you that you will lose everything in the cloud from your Mac.

When I saw that, I backed away from the keyboard slowly.

I am making a point to backup my backup that was supposed to be good in iCloud. I do not feel confident at this point with Apple's iCloud.

 

[Arelunde]

There were people claiming their photos were "gone" after updating to iOS 8 when it turned out they were searching for the old "Camera Roll" album that no longer exists. So you actually had zero photos in the Photos app after updating to iOS 8? I upgraded an iPad last night and it went smoothly (directly to 8.0.2), no photos lost.

I did beta testing on iOS 8 and this issue with photos being there and then gone has been an ongoing issue with much confusion over Photostream vs. iCloud Photo Library.

 

[unplugme71]

show me a single video of a phone bending in front pockets, please. not just a bunch of dumbasses trying to break them on purpose.

Seriously. 14 people at work have the 6+ since day one and none bend. It's all videos of people forcing it to bend. Probably by a competitor to make apple look bad.

 

[thekeyring]

Did ANYONE bother to beta test this? This is worst then Microsoft. This is getting to be far bigger then be state is at present, but then I have had the odd feeling Apples focus isn't on its software anymore. Wasn't their the story that they kept shuffling people around to work on both OSX and iOS? Like they didn't have enough staff.

Always happens, but there are reasons for it and it's not as bad as 'they don't have enough staff' because they could easily hire more.

 

[mabhatter]

Wow, iOS 8 just keeps getting worse and worse

Is barely two weeks old... These things happen.

Well, except where Apple prevents you from going BACK to iOS 7 while they get it fixed.

I was SO TEMPTED to hit the IOS 8 upgrade button this weekend... This would piss me off.

 

[unplugme71]

I wish we could backup our iCloud backups.

 

[Analog Kid]

...and these are the guys that want you to trust them with your credit card info so you can pay anywhere without cash or card?

I can tell you I'll be suggesting my bank syncs pending transactions to iCloud Drive!

 

[unplugme71]

Good point. Esp since they've got that enterprise partnership now.

Good point

 

[AppleScruff1]

The iOS QA manager needs to be sacked imedently. Tim Cook is being to soft. This release is in the same scope as Apple maps in terms of being a mess.

Worse. You could use your iOS device without using maps. You can't use it without the OS.

 

[KoolAid-Drink]

I have been using it for a couple month and I think it's an improvement over Mavericks...... What are your gripes with it?

I agree. iOS 8/iCloud has been extremely sloppy lately, but I've gotta admit, I'm very impressed by Yosemite. It works very smoothly and seems to hold up better under pressure than Mavericks. I'll have to wait until it's officially released and see how it goes when using it on a daily basis, but so far, I'm definitely impressed.

I kind of feel like this happens every year. One year, OS X is great, but iOS sucks. The next year, OS X sucks, but iOS is great. Based on that pattern, here's what I see:

2011 - OS X Lion, bad (sloppy, very buggy, many issues); iOS 5, good (new iCloud, new iMessage, very smooth and refined)

2012 - OS X Mountain Lion, good (refined over Lion, almost zero x.0 showstopper bugs, faster and overall better, more integration with iCloud apps); iOS 6, bad (Maps, x.0 release bugs, issues with WiFi on day of launch)

2013 - OS X Mavericks, bad (general bugs, SMB/Mail issues, TM issues, battery issues, etc); iOS 7, good (mainly UI changes were what caused complaints, but the underlying software itself was still good)

2014 - OS X Yosemite = ? (if it stays as good as it is now in PB3/DP8, hopefully Apple won't botch it up, then it'll be good); iOS 8, bad (no need to explain)

2015 - based on the pattern established above, maybe OS X Mojave/Napa/whatever it'll be called will be bad with sloppy bugs, while iOS 9 will be much more smoother and refined)

What do you think?

 

[GenesisST]

Hmm... What to call this one... #WipeGate? #ResetGate?

WipeGate... Sounds like the worse job in Redmond...