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iCloud 'Keep Downloaded' Option Included in iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia

Delivered said:
You are being sarcastic right? Click the start menu. Boom ads. Random apps listed in the windows menu. Click the widget panel boom ads.
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We have a Windows machine at my office for a specific piece of non-Mac software. I was sitting at it the other day and saw a little weather temperature readout in the task bar. I clicked on it, foolishly thinking it would just give me more detail on the weather. Instead it just opened up a little internet sewer right there on the desktop.

 
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ignatius345 said:
This would have really saved me back when I was struggling with a

We have a Windows machine at my office for a specific piece of non-Mac software. I was sitting at it the other day and saw a little weather temperature readout in the task bar. I clicked on it, foolishly thinking it would just give me a little more detail on the weather. Instead, this huge box opened up like a little internet sewer: animated little news tiles, ads for various junk. It was like a little slice of Times Square, right there on your desktop -- all hiding behind that little temperature readout for no reason.
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😂🤣 yea. it’s jarring!
 
Perhaps now Logic plugins won’t crash with no explanation, only to discover it was because iCloud Drive uploaded and removed the files!!! 🤯
 
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iCloud Drive is buggy as hell. Frequently it gets "stuck", and when you're working on something, like your actual job, that's just unacceptable. I immediately stopped using it for that reason.
 
ignatius345 said:
We have a Windows machine at my office for a specific piece of non-Mac software. I was sitting at it the other day and saw a little weather temperature readout in the task bar. I clicked on it, foolishly thinking it would just give me more detail on the weather. Instead it just opened up a little internet sewer right there on the desktop.

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So you clicked for “weather” and you got … coupons for dishwasher soap? 🙄
 
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It sounds like this will finally fix the biggest usability issue with Obsidian on iOS, which is needing to wait for 10-60 seconds when it launches so it can make iCloud redownload all its files.
 
MuppetGate said:
So you clicked for “weather” and you got … coupons for dishwasher soap? 🙄
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I woke up this morning to an AD for Apple Music (try it again with a free month to get started!) right smack center on my iPad

There should be no throwing stones as these companies are all building glass houses
 
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Wish it just had the ability to specify what to sync and what not to sync, like every other sync product.

Then I'll probably jump aboard.

And then a docker container to allow iCloud sync to my Synology NAS :)
 
How about the opposite? Preventing specific folders or files from ever downloading to your device? Currently iCloud keeps my local storage permanently full.
 
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So good! A step toward closing my Dropbox account. Problem is I have about 500 gb of music samples I really need on disk at all times for music making.

What would be amazing would be if macOS could format and encrypt an external HD to be used as an iCloud Drive. Probably never gonna happen though.
 
How about Apple Books? Does it still arbitrarily remove your downloaded content when you don't have access to the internet?
 
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Nice addition. To have to wait for the download isn't a big deal, but sometimes, at least for me, its something like a virtual machine... so that's a huge feature for big files.
 
I hope they extend this to Apple Books as well. It's infuriating when you realise the Book you want to read has been off loaded and you don't have any WiFi.
 
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davem20 said:
iCloud frequently breaks my Xcode projects. Glad that I will be able to keep all the files local.
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How come you aren't using github (or similar)? I've never used Xcode, and I'm genuinely curious why you would use iCloud for your code repositories.
 
Wish this actually worked consistently for Apple Music. Can't tell you how many times I've had to download the same album, only to find once again in a moment without an internet connection that it was gone.
 
robgreene said:
Much needed addition. The "Remove Download" and "Keep Downloaded" language still leaves great room for confusion compared to Dropbox's "Make Available Offline" and "Make Online-Only".... the "Remove" language in particular is easily confused with "am I deleting the file if I press this?"
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Really good point. I’m surprised they didn’t make this clearer.
 
Delivered said:
You are being sarcastic right? Click the start menu. Boom ads. Random apps listed in the windows menu. Click the widget panel boom ads.
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I turned off the widgets panel, I find their utility to be on par with apples. And I’ve never seen an ad on the start menu or search box but I don’t cheap out with the home edition either. I don’t have random apps listed in the start menu either. It’s amazingly sane and unspectacular but that doesn’t make for an alarmist post
 
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