Search the Community

So, just got my DS224+ for family photo only, as I was learning from YouTube, I got lost in the instructions tutorial, so I not paying attention that made me create one manual account Synology Account via iCloud email and then the other via the continuation of the setup that uses Apple ID by hiding my email. so how do we deal with it? Should we delete the Synology Account that uses a manual iCloud account or how?

Ok, so I'm having an issue with my fathers laptop, and it appears to be infected with a trojan virus. He was handling his business, going to different websites, and suddenly this message popped up claiming his computer has been infected with a trojan. It locked him out of his laptop, couldn't even use the mouse. It said to call the number at the bottom, which was to a company called "Cloudyne Technologies". The number and the company seems legit, but something seems off about it all, so I want other peoples opinion. We had no prior relationship with this company at all.

My iPhone 6 (16GB) has been low on storage for quite some time and i wanted to clear up some unused apps and delete some old photos. It seems that iCloud is taking my actual iPhone storage to “access my iCloud storage Locally” whatever that means. i tried looking up on Apple’s forums and macrumors, i didnt something that helped me. before all this my system was taking like 6GB but somehow I reduced it to 2-3GB (i should have made a post about how i did it). but this iCloud drive is taking up valuable storage that i need. if anyone have a suggestion, solution or a forum post that could help me with this issue, i would be grateful. Thanks Alot. P.S. I am currently running IOS 12.4.1 (if that helps) and I attached some photos of my drive usage so you can see exactly what is taking up space and how much.

How do I remove unused photos and videos from local storage on iPhone, while still keeping them in iCloud? I have the option in iCloud photos settings set to optimize local storage, but it still keeps a lot of 4K video recording local on the phone. (no I don't want to use Google Photos).

How long would it take to backup 1,5 TB of data to iCloud Drive with an internet upload speed of 50 Mbit/s? I live in Sweden. No, I don’t want a NAS.

I've been struggling with this situation for a few years now. Every single time I look for solutions, it feels like I'm taking crazy pills and I'm the only person on Earth who is trying to accomplish this, or the only one running into serious issues while trying. It seems like 90% of the time, the solution I find online is something completely unacceptable, stuff like "buy a mac", or switch to android, or "just pay for iCloud perpetually" etc... I'm a stubborn sob, I don't want to pay for iCloud space, I don't want to lose picture quality, I don't want to have my images be in that stupid HEIF image format, I don't even want to temporarily enable iCloud for photos. I want the pictures that are on my iPhone 12 Pro to be moved as-is onto my Windows PC (Windows 10 Pro) where I can manually make back up copies. I'm going to quickly rattle off solutions that I have tried: 1. iCloud Windows Application - I tried this a while ago and was unable to get my photos off the phone, the Windows application is very crap. 2. iCloud Browser Access Download - Downloading my photos (at full resolution in their native format) is difficult enough through their interface, but then removing them from my phone is also difficult and unpredictable. On top of that, iCloud has a very obnoxious strategy for backing up photos. It essentially randomly chooses photos in your collection at random times and uploads them. This strategy makes it impractical for someone who has thousands of photos and very little phone storage space left or free iCloud space. I'd have to remove like 50 random photos at a time and then wait a random amount of time for a random assortment of 50 new pictures to be selected to repeat the process. I've also heard it can take weeks for iCloud to select photos for cloud backup and weeks to remove photos from your phone that you've removed from iCloud manually, which means it would be risky to try to bite the storage cost bullet, try to remove all photos, and then stop paying. The randomization is unpredictable and may drag on for months. 3. Windows Built-in Photo Transfer - Windows has a built-in utility to move or copy photos off of a media device like a phone, and this utility has also failed for the same reason as another method which I'll discuss next. 4. Manual Transfer - good old fashioned; plug the phone via wire directly, navigate to the directory and move the files off myself. Oh boy, this is where the iPhone really gets intense. It took me a while to learn about this, but apparently the iPhone has tons of background processes (I'm guessing like iCloud) which are constantly randomly grabbing the file handles for my pictures, so if one of those processes does that while I am moving a picture off my iPhone, the transfer will fail, and I will then no longer be able to access the iPhone file directories until I restart the iPhone completely. I believe this behavior of the phone is what also prevents the Windows Built-in Photo Transfer tool from completing. Currently, the only way I've been able to get photos or videos off my phone is with the manual transfer, I'm able to get a few images off at a time, then I have to restart the phone, and repeat. It takes an insane amount of time and patience. There was one suggestion I read once that kind of helped a little, apparently if you put the phone into airplane mode it shuts off some (not all) of those background processes I mentioned, and you can get more photos off per session before having to restart the phone again. Ultimately I just want control over my photos and when and how I back it all up. I do not want to use iCloud, and it's not even about the money, it's behavior is completely contrary to my very being. At this point, Apple is effectively holding my photos hostage. The ransom demand is to pay for iCloud storage space for the rest of my life (and worse have to actually use iCloud for photos), or spend many hours of my time and intense frustration every time I want to back up my photos. Everyone I know offline with my circumstance has simply relented, "I just started paying for the iCloud storage space". Last quick note, I want to say I know about the fact that the phone stores some edits you make in unusual formats and such. In short, I don't care about losing the edits, I just want the raw full res image in its native jpg format (that's how the images are stored on the device prior to iCloud). So, are there any other people in the same boat as me? Has anyone found a solution to this or have any suggestions I could try? Am I taking crazy pills?

Hey, so I’m going through all my computer hardware and seeing what works and what is still useful and I’ve got an old dual core pentium system, a hardware RAID adapter (8xSATA) and a whole stack of hard drives. I’m planing to build myself a NAS/home server as an exercise because I already have a NAS but I’d like the experience of building my own and making use of the hardware I have laying round, otherwise going to waste. But I thought I’d come on here and ask a question. is there a way to combine a home NAS with my icloud? what I really want is the convenience of taking a photo on my iPhone and then have it magically appearing on my home network so I don’t have to upload it to discord. Yes, that is the quickest way I have worked out to get photos from my phone to my PC. now, I know if you install the windows version of iCloud you can have it copy your iCloud contents to the drive on your PC but that would mean using a windows OS for the NAS/server and in my experience iCloud doesn’t play well with anything other than iPhones and iPads anyway. Your thoughts are appreciated, any links to similar projects that you’ve seen that I’ve not been able to find also appreciated. The only thing that isn’t appreciated is “don’t use icloud” and “don’t use iPhones” I have 4 iPhones, they were all gifts, if you want me to stop using them please gift me two android phones equivalent to an iPhone 7 and and iPhone X

I’m planning to set up a home NAS. it will be used for: 1. to replace my google drive. 2. to dump my photos and videos from my iphone 3. To do some torrenting 4. About 2-3 users 5. For backup maybe as time machine for my mac and backup storage for my desktop. questions: 1. do i really need to consider raid 1? I mean it’s for personal use. Files aren’t really THAT important but i don’twant them gone either. To make it as reliable as a google drive, is raid necessary? 2. Ironwolf 4tb 5900rpm x 2 on raid 1 on a ds220j OR ironwolf PRO 8tb 7200rpm on a ds120j?

Summary Apple has released a new white paper with some more detail on exactly how the private relay will work. They still have no information about who the other CDN partners will be, but based on the description of how the service will work they shouldn't have enough info to be able to track users no matter who they are. They've also shared how the geolocation info will be handled Quotes My thoughts The details here are similar to what we already knew/guessed, but I think it's interesting to read exactly what they're doing and their rationale for doing it. I live in central Europe and thought from the beginning that the location stuff might cause me some trouble with regional content. However the choice of 800 sq km is a good balance. My friends in Strasbourg and Monaghan will still run into trouble, but probably not very much. For now I'll be activating this on my iPad to test and so long as I'm not constantly signed out of everywhere, I'll do it on my phone too. Has anyone who lives in southern Ontario, eastern Maine, Vienna, or some other border area been brave enough to give this a go yet? Sources https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Overview_Dec2021.PDF

Is there a way possible to view photos on an external drive in the photos app without them uploading to my iCloud and wasting my storage. I have an old phone with about 11,000 photos and I am putting them on an external drive however I want an easy way to look through them and enjoy them is there anyway to do that in photos or another app that is able to help that way I don't waste my 50 gigs of iCloud.

Currently trying to set up an ancient iPad 1 (iOS 5.1.1) with my iCloud account so I can sync notes between it and other devices, however I can't seem to get this to work. Is it just incompatible due to age? I don't see notes from my other devices on it, or new notes from this ipad on any other devices.

Hey all, with Apples recent reversal on privacy I’ve been debating canceling my iCloud subscription. The thing that has been stopping me is that I rely on the automatic backups to make sure I don’t lose my data in case my phone bites the dust. While researching options, I came across iMazing, which claims to allow you to make complete backups to a NAS. It also seems like a recent update allows you to make that an automatic process? I haven’t found much online about how well this works, and if there are any pitfalls. The simplicity of iCloud is appealing, I have enough to worry about without needing to remember to back up my phone regularly or maintain those backups. I’ve also never set up or used a NAS, so if there is another way to use one to handle my iPhone backups, I would love to hear that. This also seems like it could be a good idea for a LTT video (set up a new NAS and get iMazing or similar software working as iCloud replacement) so I wasn’t sure if I should post this here or in a “video ideas” thread.

I have an iphone x which recently died, but i had everything backed by icloud. Since iphone prices are so high in my country iam going to use an older iphone 4s till i get a new phone. The question is i cant use my cloud saves on iphone4s because it would overwhelm the phone, if i set it up as a new iphone does that mean my iphonex cloud saves are going to be deleted or not. I want restore my cloud saves when i get a new phone. Would it be a problem if i set the older iphone 4s as a new iphone

So i bought a broken ipad for a few bucks awhile ago, i recently have dug it out if a bin and wanted to know if it would be worth fixing. Its a ipad 6th gen cellular The cost of fixing isnt a issue for me. Just wondering if if be able to get around a password or icloud lock it might have on it?

Summary Apple just released a newsroom article to announce three new security features meant to protect user privacy in the cloud. Apple announced: Quotes iMessage Contact Key Verification: Security Keys: Advanced Data Protection for iCloud: My thoughts I have always believed that Apple is a leader in consumer data protections. With these new features, even more people will be able to feel safe with their data on Apples Servers. I encourage everyone to opt-in to these features, especially encrypting your photos and backups. I hope Apple continues to push forward with consumer data protection enchantments to further distinguish itself from the "You are the product" buisness models of companies like Google and Microsoft. To further demonstrate how serious this is, the FBI is worried that Apple is implementing these features. The FBI provided multiple statements on the subject: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/08/fbi-privacy-groups-icloud-encryption/ Sources https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-advances-user-security-with-powerful-new-data-protections/ https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/08/fbi-privacy-groups-icloud-encryption/

In addition to Advanced Data Protection in iCloud, Apple has announced that it has abandoned its plans to screen your photos for CSAM. Apple Provided this statement: My thoughts Back in 2021 when Apple announced its intentions to use this hashing tool to check against known CSAM, people were furious. Despite Apples attempts to show that the service was "secure enough" and had privacy in mind (despite its end goals to scan every photo and document you have for potentially incriminating photos), there was no good way to spin it. The feature was lambasted by security professionals, politicians, and users around the globe. I'm happy that Apple has decided to not push this feature forward and has instead decided to double down on privacy, even though adding full encryption puts more responsibility on the user and abandoning this feature means potential criminals will have to be caught outside of iCloud. Sources https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/07/apple-abandons-icloud-csam-detection/

Hi Guys, I have not found a good solution to this issue anywhere else. Was wondering if anyone knows how to fix this. Latest version of iCloud for Windows (as on 5/23/2020) creates multiple shortcuts for "iCloud Photos" in the navigation pane on Windows 10. Screenshot attached. Thanks, Mav

Hi everyone, I"m not much of a Mac person. Way more of a Windows person. I have a MacBook Pro (2008) running El Capitan. I get an Optimum Wifi pop up asking me to sign in like 3 times a day. iCloud repeatedly asks me to confirm my password for my email, over and over again. One problem was the system clock. It was way off and so that seemed to invalidate security certificates for common websites like Google. Updating the system clock seemed to fix it. Thanks for any help you can give.

So I got the apple iCloud 50GB storage plan for my iCloud account but i want to share that with my family without them logging into my iCloud account, but if that is the only way (them logging to my account) what will it change, like banking info and photos etc.Thanks

hi guys, anyone know anything about Whatsapp, i have over 150,000 messages in my group chat and would like to keep them all. (call me crazy but theres alot of funny/stupid shit in there) what im asking... is there a way to upload all of your data to the icloud and stream your messages. as in not store them locally??

At least on my system (2016 256GB nTB MBP) if you drag any file from the downloads shortcut in the Dock into a folder in iCloud Drive in Finder that folder will glitch out and cause graphical artifacts in that folder specifically. If you leave the folder Finder will behave normally or at least appear to. The solution seems to be to cmd+z to undo the file movement (does not always work) but restoring the folder from TimeMachine always works. Just something I noticed. Otherwise High Sierra seems mostly pretty stable. The issue does not appear to be present when using list view, only thumbnail view. The issue also does not appear to be present outside of iCloud Drive folders. Would be interested to see if this happens to anyone else.

Apple's Keychain access has for a while now utilized End-to-end data encryption to protect their users sensitive data. But now, a previously thought patched, security exploit within iClouds verification of device keys, which can allow attackers to bypass the end-to-end encryption and steal users Passwords and other sensitive information. The worst thing about this is that it was thought to have been patched a while ago, and that this flaw is completely silent to users. It has been noted though, that accounts that use two factor authentication are much better protected from this type of attack. Alex Radocea, founder of Longterm Security, stated that: Source: http://www.zdnet.com/article/icloud-security-flaw-icloud-keychain-iphone-mac-passwords-vulnerable/ http://www.techrepublic.com/article/icloud-keychain-encryption-bug-exposes-ios-passwords-credit-card-numbers/

How Do I Get iCloud Working in Yosemite Zone? Hello! I recently installed Yosemite Zone and iCloud, FaceTime, iMessage, and Google Chrome and none of them work, each saying my computer isn't validated. I have tried many things including the one with EFI Studio and deleting stuff to messing around in Chameleon and none of it seems to work. The App Store and it's sister apps work just fine, though. Does anyone know how to get all this working, as they are things I'd like to use. Specs: AMD Phenom II x4 B55 3.3 GHz 8 GB DDR3 NVidia GeForce GTX 750 MSI 890GXM-G65 Yosemite Zone 10.10.1

So I’m using Pixelmator and iFont to finish work project on an iPhone. Usually I could use a third party file manager like Documents by readdle in order to extract some zipped fonts I have stored on my iCloud Drive using again my iPhone on a previous project. Today to my surprise I realized I have no access to iCloud from Safari which I need in order to download the zip files coz the build in app files -you guessed it sucks!- even if I try request a desktop version. Files app has a “feature” that if you don’t have an app that apple likes e.g. Pages and you’re trying to download a pages doc (or even an exported from pages pdf for that matter) won’t let you download due to download error. May in ask WHERE is that stated in terms, or why am I even paying a cloud storage if I am unable to have access to my files even if i am using the first party and same company software to do so?!?!?!?!? And I want to make clear that this was possible a couple of months back or so. That being said in hand with the launch off a font store in wwdc earlier this month kinda makes sense in a classic Apple way. Wow I don’t even except anything outta this post just hopping to spread the word (dunno why but i also posted this in Apple’s support communities which just sounds so ironic right now) . Awesome stuff!? Please if anyone thinks I’m doing something wrong let me know this would be the process on my Mac but wait it is in service...?

So I received an Ipod touch a few years back, stopped using it and gave it to my brother and now have it back. originally I didn't remember the passcode so I went to reset it. after I reset it I got to the activate screen and I can't for the life of me remember any of my login stuff since i almost never use any apple product. Could anyone help me or tell me how much I'll probably have to pay the apple store to get it removed?