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iCloud for Windows Users Complain of Corrupted Videos, Photos From Strangers
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I believe people use these type of statements to lightly troll and get attention. I see it more now than ever before all over the place.
The amount of frothing at the mouth and trolling comments is very discouraging… all this for something that isn’t even verified and hearsay.
Drives clicks and interaction I guess. Definitely makes it so I would rather spend my time elsewhere.
This makes me even less trusting of Apple's proposed on-phone CSAM-scanning spying software. Mind you, this makes me think twice about using iCloud altogether. WTAF?
I don't use it because I already have 1 TB storage via my Microsoft 365 subscription. So that's one option.
Could use a NAS or router connected drive with a photosync app, some NASs like Synology/QNAP have dedicated client side apps for there NASs. A single drive with no cloud or redundant backup is kinda dangerous as you’d lose everything if said drive fails. NAS plus an extra drive backing up from the NAS would probably be more ideal.
Ive always used cloud storage regardless of iCloud, OneDrive, Google Drive with the expectation stuff can go wrong so I’m careful (usually) what I store. So this incident wasn’t as big a shock to me for that reason, just annoying I had to clean up 1000+ photos from a stranger lol, unless there’s repeated critical fails like this I will still use iCloud Photos like most others, as it’s convenient/well integrated within the Apple ecosystem. It’s a good lesson though for people to realize this stuff isn’t infallible and to be careful.
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Apple is sooooo private. Yeah surely they wank off to your iCloud photo library. Technically they see everything on iCloud Drive / photos / mail / notes
I have seen several comments or more, claiming this is a "Windows issue". Clearly such posters have little understanding about the backend systems. Even if windows was throwing trash at the "Apple" (AWS or Google even) servers, it should not be possible for the Windows application to request and gain access to other peoples data.
It is like you walking up to a bank with a fake ID and drawing out money from someone else's account, and then blaming the fake ID instead of the bank. It's nonsense.
I happen to use iCloud Photos and have never had the issue. But truth be told I am waiting for Protondrive to create an app then I will depart iCloud. But let's not play up to the fan boy tag, IF this is an actual issue, it is a big ******* issue that you cannot place on Windows. But I am sure most people will never know about it. If it is indeed true Apple should contact such users and inform them of the breech. Some territories may require it by law.
BTW, if anyone wants to leave iCloud Photos, do not use the turn off feature, I did that before and a couple of months later when I turned it back on, all my photos re-appeard. You have to delete all the photos manually. Normally you can delete 2000-4000 at a time on the Mac photos app. Any more and it is liable to crash, although I have never tried on an Apple CPU machine. And make a copy of your photos liberally and copy it to an external drive etc before you start, or export from photos. But I always keep a copy of the library just in case it doesn't export fully. And please god ensure you enable full downloads ("download originals to Mac" and let it sync) before you do anything.
It is like you walking up to a bank with a fake ID and drawing out money from someone else's account, and then blaming the fake ID instead of the bank. It's nonsense.
I happen to use iCloud Photos and have never had the issue. But truth be told I am waiting for Protondrive to create an app then I will depart iCloud. But let's not play up to the fan boy tag, IF this is an actual issue, it is a big ******* issue that you cannot place on Windows. But I am sure most people will never know about it. If it is indeed true Apple should contact such users and inform them of the breech. Some territories may require it by law.
BTW, if anyone wants to leave iCloud Photos, do not use the turn off feature, I did that before and a couple of months later when I turned it back on, all my photos re-appeard. You have to delete all the photos manually. Normally you can delete 2000-4000 at a time on the Mac photos app. Any more and it is liable to crash, although I have never tried on an Apple CPU machine. And make a copy of your photos liberally and copy it to an external drive etc before you start, or export from photos. But I always keep a copy of the library just in case it doesn't export fully. And please god ensure you enable full downloads ("download originals to Mac" and let it sync) before you do anything.
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So glad Apple is expending engineering resources on adding advertisements to already paid services instead of...oh you know, fixing and properly maintaining what actually matters.
We used the cloud ever since our friend’s house burned down and they lost all of their photos from their 20 plus years together and childhood. They lost actual old photos and all the copies on their computers.
I guess the answer is to make a copy to media you can store in a vault somewhere.
What I’m trying to understand is if this applies to all of us who use iCloud at all. Or if it’s only people using iCloud for Windows whose photos are just going out to random people. And that’s horrible but if it’s just Windows then I don’t need to worry about that for now.
This is really scaring me out of iCloud.
This is the company who had found a way to privately look for CSAM without actually seeing the photos.
My trust has sunk.
Someone is getting fired over there.
This is the company who had found a way to privately look for CSAM without actually seeing the photos.
My trust has sunk.
Someone is getting fired over there.
I'm all about redundancy, and that includes physical location. That's really the only way to be sure. If something is bad enough to get all my locations, then I probably wont be here either. A commercial cloud server isn't any of those locations.
Hopefully you only deleted them from your library. What would really suck is if someone deleted your photos in their library and it removed them from yours as well!
Let’s not make things up… While infinitely better, the dumpster is still warm, rusty, and needs a coat of fresh paint. 😉
Were they cute? 😆
Not a good answer to a breach that actually happened. 🤨
🤣 Better do some research first.
Cute maybe for that man’s tastes, I’ll leave it at that lol. At least no underage thankfully. Still can’t imagine his wife would be happy lol. Even more scary is that I feel one could have figured out where the guy lives with all the photos that were in there…like that was probably his entire photo library. If in the unlikely event deleting his stuff from my account wiped out his entire library, well that would be sad.
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The reminders app STILL doesn’t let me add any new reminder lists after the last few years. So I disagree. It’s also still clunky even though they have admittedly make some parts not AS bad. As a general Apple mac/iPhone/iPad/watch user who has PCs at work only on windows and uses iCloud as my main form of personal comms/organisation, iCloud.com has always felt a pretty second rate afterthought.
This puts me at ease for using Android. If I used an iPhone, I'd have a hard time convincing the Missus all those sexy selfies of cute girls appearing on my phone was Apple's fault.😓
That's should be in the next Samsung ad. "Android saved my marriage."🤣🤣
Not saying that the OP is lying or anything, but has MR actually verified/replicated the issue in the post is actually there (and not due to user error or issues with video player, for example) or is the article just based on one forum post? If this is an issue with the iCloud Windows app, then surely the issue with seeing photos from strangers must be happening to a lot more people? Every other report on this issue that I could find all reference this article and that one single forum post.
You can't replicate it now because Apple has either silently fixed it on the backend, or whatever intermittent condition that caused it has resolved itself.
It wasn't due to user error, and it was definitely happening (I confirmed it myself after I saw the original thread)
Reminds me of a forum once where someone was saying they went to google maps and when they looked at a certain place loads of porn images came up for the terrain tiles, it turned out they were image files in his cache and google was loading them instead because they had the same filename 😃
