After upgrading to iOS 10.3.2, the system asks to turn on iCloud Photos. I accidentally agree because I’m doing other stuff on my phone. The dialog box also comes out of no where.¹

Ten or so minutes later I go to Settings and turn it back off because that’s how it was before this latest upgrade.² Then I go to my photos to check that they’re still there. I was confident Apple would do the right thing. Instead more than half are gone.

Now I’m restoring my phone from the latest backup.

This is why I tell people to NEVER let iCloud touch their photos. Stuff like this ALWAYS happens.

¹ Apps really need to learn that if I’m interacting with the phone at any time to not interfere. Just pause your dialog boxes, your alerts, your whatevers until there’s no activity for a few seconds. If I’m touching and tapping my phone and then a dialog comes up, it’s the equivalent of interrupting me when I’m talking. It’s jerky and rude.

Even worse is when the dialog box forces me to make a choice. You know what my choice is? Finish what I was originally doing and NOT deal with iCloud Photos. Because ya know, I was doing something. And I’ve already dealt with that dialog question five times before.

² Funny that NOT ONE other app asks me to change one of its settings after the upgrade. Not one.

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The notion of automatic local backups to far off clouds is a good one. I had been using Google Drive since it came out a few years back and with Apple’s new iCloud offering and my new iPhone I thought I’d migrate once Yosemite came out.

I opted for the 250GB plan and drug all our photos (gigs and gigs and more gigs) to the iCloud folder in Finder. Needless to say, it didn’t go too well.

What they really mean when they say…

Any kind of file. On all your devices.”

… is …

All of your files. On all your devices.

Sure enough Apple’s iCloud moved the whole photo collection up to their cloud but they also tried to move the whole photo collection down to my 8GB phone. Smooth move Apple.

I was greeted with, You have one thimble of space left on your phone when I picked it up to see what the Internets had tonight. I had to fritter about and drag the photo collection back to the Google Drive folder. I also downgraded to the 20GB plan and hope my iPhone does the right thing and takes them off the phone.

Funny thing is that I can’t even see them on my phone since Apple implemented the sync so it “just works” and therefore you can’t actually see all the files you sync.

And then there’s iCloud’s Mail that seems to thrash about for a good 5 minutes whenever I move an email from one folder to another. So I’ve stopped using that service completely (old IMAP is a hundred times more reliable) and don’t even get me started again on how Apple jacked up Mail.app.

The hell is up, Apple, with all these shitty implementations?

Google creeps me out anymore so the revert is just a temp thing. Maybe I’ll have another look at Dropbox’s pricing plans.

PS— Ever wondered why iCloud sucks?

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