Or it's a resource allocation issues, and would require spinning up more instances. Apple is notoriously tight with spending money, so it's possible that it's a deliberate decision to save money.
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Developers Unhappy With Bug Causing iCloud Unreliability
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And issues like this to all the icloud lovers out there is why some of us like our multi terabyte devices with everything stored locally.
Why do you need 512GB+ devices they say when you can stream it all from the cloud, bugs like this that could take months or years to fix if ever.
Why do you need 512GB+ devices they say when you can stream it all from the cloud, bugs like this that could take months or years to fix if ever.
Users have suffered for years with poor iCloud sync capability. If I thought Apple cared about poor execution I'd complain. But they know they can market, design and BS their way to consistent stock price increases and exec comp. It’s a platform for yet another income transfer.
Same. Microsoft services are generally rock solid, and when they're not, the whole internet tends to know.
It sucks when, as a developer, you're getting blamed for problems caused by Apple's infrastructure. Btw, iCloud syncing has never worked right. You'd think Apple would prioritize this, fix it and move on. If we could just get China to complain about it, Timmy would stand up a task force immediately.
OneDrive is notably the only bit of cloud software I've had actually trash data. There are serious bugs in the handling of the folder redirection stuff in windows and junction points. Not only that it doesn't sign in half the time, particularly when you're half way across the ****ing planet and expected it to have actually sync'ed the file you've just edited before jumping on a bloody plane.
God no.
Try getting something fixed when it comes to their services and software integration. I held an issue open on MS Connect for 9 years which they never managed to fix. They eventually decided to deprecate MS Connect to get rid of all the bugs that were never fixed. Eventually the bug will really go away but that's only when they finally deprecate Internet Explorer. Fortunately Edge doesn't suffer from it as the browser itself wasn't written by complete retards.
This meant deploying a registry fix to 105,000 workstations across 11 countries and maintaining it for a total of 14 years so far.
The issue predates Office 365 and originates in the old Application Service Provider crap but is present in it today.
For most people it's the correct solution, even if it's crap, because it's less bad than their own arrogance about data security and backups.
The amount of tears I've seen over the years really hurts me. There was a woman in her 50s recently (on windows I will add) I tried to help who's daughter had died and she lost all the photos of her because someone had scared her off the cloud and the hard disk in her HP had failed.
Anything is better than facing that. I cried with her.
Yep, iCloud is a trash can. It blows me away that people would trust to store their data on it.
For the life of me I cannot get Messages on my iPad to sync with activity on my iPhone. I’ve logged of iCloud and back in which at one time would resolve, no joy.
It annoys me that many apps even use iCloud when they don't need to, or at least don't give you the option. I use Overcast podcast player, but then it suddenly stopped working, with a little iCloud symbol showing each time I went to play a podcast. My iCloud appears to be full, so it seems the app stopped working. But I don't even use iCloud, and wish I could simply completely delete it from all my Apple devices. To me, it is nothing but a virus. I tried turning off the usage of iCloud for Overcast in settings, but nothing changed. Why, Overcast, why?!
Kinda like when they released Apple Maps. It worked in Cupertino and that’s all they thought that mattered.
OneDrive is indeed a far better and more flexible solution, than iCloud.
But… neither company’s standard solution is certifiably GDPR conformant, and thus not really usable (or even allowed to use) for a lot of general type data storage (especially if you’re a company or work on “other peoples” projects ;-)
In short, most storage solution for ordinary users, that are in any way associated with or owned by a US-company must be suspected to implement US-law, disrespecting EU data protection laws. US courts have severe problems in practicing the view, that US-laws are not valid outside the US for non-citizens, living inside the EU and expecting their data to remain inside the EU. Even a faint risk, that Trump may resurrect from the near dead politicians - or something even worse - will be a problem in the real world outside US.
The US is extremely sensitive to any risk of US-data ending up in China. The US does not seem to accept, that EU may harbor the same sensitivities regarding EU-data ending up in the US. How come?
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Ha. Hahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
OneDrive is the analog to iClouds digital. When iCloud fails the whole thing goes down. OneDrive however is endlessly being an issue. In order to know if OneDrive is having new issues, one has to log all the old issues first. This doesn't make OneDrive better. Not being able to access a file because OneDrive wants to resync all 5 TB of storage is no different than simply not having access to storage. In fact, it might be worse because OneDrive makes you burn through data first.
This explains why i'm running into so many issues migrating IMAP data to my icloud email, I assume. imapsync keeps failing after 50 503s
They messed up something where Photos just stop syincing. It says 'Sync stopped to save battery' (or something like that, my iOS is in Dutch), but when I tap it so it sync anyway, it never starts.
Man, it used to work perfect on iOS 14 and Catalina. Now it's messed up again as are a few other things after I switched from a iPhone 7 to a 12 and a from MacBook Pro 2015 15" (Catalina) to a 2021 16" (Monterey).
You'd think when you get the latest and greatest, it's gonna work even better than before. Well not anymore with Apple. As a long time user, I keep noticing they always mess something up that was working perfectly fine before.
Man, it used to work perfect on iOS 14 and Catalina. Now it's messed up again as are a few other things after I switched from a iPhone 7 to a 12 and a from MacBook Pro 2015 15" (Catalina) to a 2021 16" (Monterey).
You'd think when you get the latest and greatest, it's gonna work even better than before. Well not anymore with Apple. As a long time user, I keep noticing they always mess something up that was working perfectly fine before.
I’ve noticed CloudClip lagging intermittently, Photos too.
A number of developers are upset with an increasingly problematic iCloud server issue that is causing some apps that have implemented iCloud support to fail to sync properly.
As outlined on the Developer Forums and on Twitter, there are CloudKit connectivity issues that have been occurring since November. Some users of apps that have iCloud support built in are seeing the following message: "Request failed with http status code 503."
The developers behind popular note taking app GoodNotes have been seeing the problem frequently enough that they wrote a support document for customers who are running into the error message. The GoodNotes team says that the app automatically retries to connect and thus the issue gets solved eventually, but they're not sure what's causing the connectivity error to begin with.Some developers have noted that their apps have worked without issue for years prior to the sudden appearance of the iCloud server issue that is apparently causing the error message. From a developer on Apple's forums:A handful of developers have been able to get help from Apple engineering, and one was able to change their iCloud container for their developer account to fix the issue, but there appear to be many developers who are still having issues.
Other developers have resorted to building iCloud status dashboard into their apps so customers can see when iCloud is non-functional.
iCloud failures are a major problem for app developers because the end user of the app doesn't know that it's an Apple issue, so customers blame the app developers for a non-working sync feature that they have no control over.
Multiple developers have reported the iCloud syncing bug to Apple, but it has gone widely unaddressed based on the number of complaints and the fact that the issue has seemingly persisted for at least the last couple of months. It's likely that the problem popped up with the launch of iOS 15 and its sister updates, and it's not clear when a fix might be available.
Customers experiencing iCloud issues should be aware that it's likely an issue on Apple's end and not a bug that app developers can address at this time.
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I used to have this problem, but now each file has little timer icon next to it and the iCloud folder as well. That timer icon gives a good idea of the progress of a file upload.
Well, there is a reason why Apple never gained foothold and left the server market, they simply suck badly at backend infrastructure stuff.
Now that I am thinking about it, maybe devs want to use other cloud solutions to sync their data instead of iCloud, except, oh, iCloud only?
I have one app using Dropbox to store the configuration and sync across all other devices linked to the same Dropbox account. Dunno if other devs could do the same.
I have one app using Dropbox to store the configuration and sync across all other devices linked to the same Dropbox account. Dunno if other devs could do the same.