iCloud

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iCloud is what Apple summarily calls all of its various online services such as Apple ID, online storage, syncing, as well as a silo of sorts with iCloud identifiers and small group photo sharing.

Status

You can check the status of various Apple online services here:

• http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

Downtime

2022-03-21

• https://twitter.com/BrandonButch/status/1505952600851636228
  • "Looks like iCloud and other Apple services are down.
    
    Having issues with iMessage and signing in to iCloud 🧐" @BrandonButch March 21, 2022
• 2022-03-21 The Verge: An Apple outage is affecting Apple Music, iCloud, and other services / Several of Apple’s cloud services seem to be having issues right now
• https://twitter.com/MacRumors/status/1505951324252254208
  • "iCloud is Down and Other Apple Services Experiencing Issues https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/21/icloud-and-apple-services-down/ by @rsgnl" @MacRumors March 21, 2022

Criticism

Your iCloud storage is almost full

Recently (2016?) Apple seems to have started sending lots of fear-inducing emails with the subject line:

Your iCloud storage is almost full

Have received these emails recently (in 2016):

• Tantek Çelik
• Jason Garber

iOS UI

Photos

iOS 9.x has a UI in the Settings app (iCloud option) for enabling various iCloud Photo features:

Backup

iOS 9.x has a UI in the Settings app (Storage option) for enabling various backup features, which use iCloud:

Note: the "Photo Library" backup option is different from the "iCloud Photo Library" and "My Photo Stream" options in the explicit iCloud Photos preferences above.

See Also

• Apple
• Apple ID
• Apple: Manage your iCloud storage including key tips for deleting / removing things to "Make more space available in iCloud" from your iOS and Mac devices.
• Criticism: backups are *not* fully encrypted: https://twitter.com/dnvolz/status/1219596800987889664
  • "Apple dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the company's iCloud service after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations, six sources familiar with the matter told Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive-idUSKBN1ZK1CT great scoop from @josephmenn" @dnvolz January 21, 2020
• https://twitter.com/jogdenUK/status/1423731099105120265
  • "iCloud be like" @jogdenUK August 6, 2021
• Google One