Tim Sweeney, the chief of Epic Games, has attacked Apple over its iCloud Photos and messages child safety initiatives, putting forward the idea of it being a way for governments to conduct surveillance.
For a period of time on Monday morning, Apple's System Status dashboard indicated users may have experienced issues with Find My, iCloud syncing services, Mail, and other tools.
A number of users are experiencing issues when using iCloud Mail, with some customers unable to log in to their mail account via the Mail app or third-party apps.
Apple has dramatically increased the amount of data that it stores on Google's cloud services, suggesting that its storage needs have grown faster than it can handle with its own servers.
Calendar spam is continuing to be an annoyance for many iCloud users, despite Apple's past attempts to mitigate the problem.
The Target Circle loyalty program is offering longer-than-normal trials of many popular Apple services, including Apple Music — and some of the trials last as long as six months.
It's great that iCloud will free up storage space for you by moving documents you don't need — but you sometimes have to convince it you need them back.
Apple ID account holders will be able to assign Legacy Contacts who can access their account information upon the account holder's death.
In a WWDC developer video, Apple has further explained what protection its iCloud Private Relay will give users, plus how exactly it works to increase privacy.
Apple is working toward a future without passwords with a new iCloud Keychain "passkey" feature that was previewed at WWDC 2021.
Apple's upcoming iCloud Private Relay feature, which aims to conceal user web browsing habits, will be unavailable in a number of countries infamous for snooping on citizens and enacting harsh online censorship laws.
Apple will give users with free iCloud accounts unlimited, temporary storage to facilitate data transfers to new devices.
Paid iCloud subscriptions will soon have access to an enhanced iCloud+ feature, including a Private Relay VPN, a new Hide My Email capability, and support for unlimited secure HomeKit video cameras.
Previously announced in November 2020, all photos and videos uploaded to Google Photos by iPhone users after June 1, 2021, will count against a user's 15GB of Google Account Storage.
An unknown number of Apple Mail users are experiencing assorted issues with the service, including failure to send or sync across iCloud.
Users with a single Apple ID had no confusion when switching to an Apple One bundle subscription, but people with two now have answers about iCloud storage.
The previously separate iCloud "Documents & Data" service will automatically be merged into Apple's iCloud Drive in May 2022 — but users will have to take steps to continue seeing their documents.
Apple is experiencing an issue with iCloud that could result in slowdowns or render some services, like Find My, unavailable.
Users of iCloud Mail are experiencing a rare outage of service, with some customers having trouble accessing their inbox for a number of hours.
Apple has published its latest Transparency Report, detailing both government and private requests for data, app removals, or account preservations in the first half of 2020.
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