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iOS & iCloud: Broken iCloud data causes kbd process to crash constantly and drains battery
On Stackoverflow I was told to come here.
Since a few days ago my iPhone 5 is getting unusually warm and the battery drains REALLY quick, like in 4-5 hours. I tried turning all the usual suspecty off ...
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Queries with phone contacts
I had certain queries with respect to how iOS 6 handles phone contacts:
My phone is synced with Exchange contacts. Does this mean that if I delete the contacts from my phone (local), the same will ...
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Can you sync only a group of contacts from a Mac to an iPhone?
I'm running iOS 6 on an iPhone 3GS. I see that all my contacts from my computer have appeared in the Contacts app on my phone. Now my contacts database on my computer is, to say the least, messy. It ...
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Can i create my own back up iCloud account other than the one my ex boyfriend set my iphone up with?
When I first got my iPhone, my boyfriend set it up with his iTunes and iCloud account because I didn't have one of my own. We recently broke up, and he then changed the password for his Apple ID and ...
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Separating contacts
My wife has a iPhone 5 and a iPad 2. After she received her iPhone 5, I took over using her old iPhone 4 and also have a MacBook. We share one Apple ID, therefore we share all contacts. (I updated ...
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How to save my app files and/or data from my iPad 1 whose screen won't turn on?
Backstory:
I bought an original iPad when it first came out, my first Apple product, and it's been a great computer but recently it doesn't work anymore. Basically, the screen won't turn on.
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iPhone error message - “Last backed up to icloud: Unknown”
I tried to back up to iCloud through my computer with my phone attached and I get a message that says:
Last backed up to iCloud: Unkown.
I went to settings on my phone (iPhone 4) and to the ...
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Is it possible for each of my iDevices to have its own iCloud backup?
But I would still like for all the devices to share a single iTunes account, so that
I only buy an app once
I want to be able to log into Find my iPhone with my main iTunes account and still see ...
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Automatically share new photos with photo stream?
Is it possible to make every new photo taken automatically appear in a photo stream that is shared with other users?
Either by some how share the default photo stream or make another photo stream as ...
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Restoring a new iPhone via iCloud post-setup?
I am trying to restore my new iPhone with the data from my old iPhone via iCloud. I have tried to follow this tutorial, but unfortunately I cannot connect to wifi during the setup process (my wifi ...
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Can photos taken with my iPhone (and Apple ID) stream to my husband's iPad (and Apple ID)?
My husband and I have different Apple ID and iCloud photo stream.
When I take photos on my iPhone, registered to my Apple ID, can I have them automatically uploaded to my husband's iPad 2 registered ...
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Does iCloud require any telephone land line infrastructure to send messages?
If all phone lines are down (meaning a local or national phone line outage) and with all cell phone towers being down, is there a way that I could send a iMessage (or an SMS) to other iPhone users by ...
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Is there any way to make my iPhone sync calendars with iCloud periodically?
I have an iPhone and an iPad, both with iOS 6.1. I use iCloud for calendar syncing between them and my Mac. For whatever reason, the iOS devices don’t sync calendars with iCloud unless and until I ...
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Changing iCloud accounts in order to sync Photostream pictures
I have three iOS devices that I would like to have Photostream sync across. Right now, the iPhone 5 and iPad 2 sync because they are on the same iCloud account, but my wife's iPhone 4 doesn't sync - ...
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How do you add more than one phone number on iMessage?
My sisters and I all have iPhones under the same account. I also have an iPad under the same account. I am trying to get the iMessage on my iPad compatible with my phone number, not email address.
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How can I restore an iCloud backup to a new device?
I have a new iPad And am trying to restore it from the back up of my old iPad. iCloud storage shows 3 backups - my iPhone, my old iPad and the new iPad (empty).
How do I get the old iPad backup on ...
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Can I create/edit contact groups in iOS?
I have been successful in managing contact groups with OS X's Contacts.app and iCloud.com, but haven't found a way to do this on iOS 6.
Is there a way to manage contact groups on iOS (iPhone, iPad, ...
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iOS Sync Outlook Calender and Contacts
I'm trying to help a family member with their iPhone. I'm pretty tech savy, but I would rather ask this question because I don't deal with iOS too often.
The iPhone used to sync calendars and ...
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Can't sync calendars with iCloud
I tried to enable Calendar sync at Settings > iCloud > Calendar and a message says "Activating Calendar sync" but it ends up in Home screen with no changes. When I go again to iCloud setting I see ...
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Adding contact on iPhone adds it to Exchange but not iCloud
On my iPhone running iOS6, I have the following accounts configured:
iCloud - Contacts, Reminders, Safari, Passbook, and Find my iPhone
Exchange (my work email) - Mail, Contacts, Calendars, and ...
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Restoring new iPhone from iCloud backup deactivates old iphone?
I gave a friend a new SIM card for her unlocked direct from Apple iPhone 5.
She put the SIM in, and went through the setup process, restoring her iPhone 5 from an iCloud backup. At this point, her ...
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Apple's Notes forgetting notes — why?
I started to use the default Notes app over iPhone, iPad and Macbook. After it sends me an email about the note, the note gets removed. I want to keep the notes. My friend suspected a time-drift bug ...
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Contacts not updating through iCloud
I own a Mac running OSX Mountain Lion and an iPhone 4S running iOS 6. For some reason, when setting the Contacts app in my Mac to use iCloud Contact, it is using an older version of the contacts.
I ...
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New contacts stay “on my iphone”
What is the point of the "On My iPhone" contact group when you use iCloud? It is very confusing.
I've added a few contacts lately and I noticed they didn't sync and are part of the "On My iPhone" ...
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Read/Edit Textedit icloud files on an iPad
Does any one of you know a solution to either read or edit on an iPad files stored with Textedit on iCloud ?
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huge camera roll backup but no pictures
I have my iOS 6 phone synced with iCloud. I had a storage shortage on iCloud so I deleted pictures from my phone, however this does not solve the problem - my phone still complains that it doesn't ...
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Why were my contacts synced to my mother's iPhone?
I have recently downloaded the new software on my iphone, iOS 6. My mother and my sister also use my Apple ID to download their apps too.
Today my mother downloaded iOS 6 and all of my contacts were ...
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How to clean old iPhone 4 for selling after buying a new iPhone 5?
I just upgraded to the iPhone 5 and plan on selling my old iPhone 4. However, I want to make sure I don't keep any personal information (photos, emails, contacts) on the device. Since both iPhones are ...
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How can I recover notes missing from the Notes app?
I recently opened the Notes app and found that about a month's worth of notes are missing. There is a gap between August 5th and September 3rd.
(This time period includes a note I wrote while in an ...
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Syncing contacts with iCloud
So I just upgraded to iOS 6 and have two questions:
Is it possible that my updated contacts (using Facebook integration) will uploaded to the cloud so the same info appearing on iPhone will be ...
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Synchronising contacts between iCloud and iOS
I have a problem with my contacts synching between iPhone and iCloud. There is a number of contacts that appears with the tag iCloud in my phone, although they arent on the iCloud website or my ...
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iCloud prompts me to create a free @me.com email address to turn on Notes sync
I'm very aware this question is probably about to become obsolete with the release of iOS 6 at some point soon, but thought I'd ask anyway.
I have an iCloud account set up on my phone with the email ...
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How can I access preview documents saved to iCloud from 10.8 on an iPad?
As of OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) one can move Preview documents to iCloud, how do I access these documents from my iPad?
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Can iOS receive email from two Apple ID but iMessages from only one of the two email addresses?
I have an iPod Touch and an iPhone, both on separate Apple ID accounts. What would happen if I added the iPod Touch email to the "receive at" on my iPhone (in addition to the separate email already in ...
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Do I need to wait for an upload to complete before closing Pages/Numbers?
After updating a Pages/Numbers document in iOS, I can go back to the app's file browser to get the list of all of my docs in iCloud. At that moment, the document that I had just updated displays a ...
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Could iCloud be replaced by a personal WebDAV server?
I like to run all my own data services (for security and confidentiality).
I'm wondering whether anyone has tried to replace iCloud with a personal server.
I presume that a combination of server side ...
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How to I access documents saved in iCloud with Mountain Lion on my iOS device
I know that I can save a pages document in the cloud in Mountain Lion and then open it in Pages for iOS, but how do I access something saved in iCloud on TextEdit or Preview.
For instance, with ...
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Can I disable video iCloud backups in Camera Roll?
My default iCloud backup is almost full at 4 out of 5 GB, and I strongly suspect it's not the photos (I don't take that many) but a few giant videos in the Camera Roll:
Is there any way to disable ...
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History of downloaded iBookstore samples?
For some reason—presumably a sync by my iPhone that overwrote my iPad’s more recently downloaded library—the majority of my iBooks were deleted.
The books I purchased can easily be restored, but I ...
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access iCloud backup app data
How can I access the iCloud backup app data, i.e. the app data from my iPhone? E.g., I would like to make a local copy of it on my computer (without accessing the iPhone directly, i.e. really just the ...
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Are Photos from the Photos app in iOS backed up to iCloud?
Are Photos from the Photos app in iOS backed up to iCloud? I basically make albums in iPhoto and they are saved in my Photos app on my device. I really hope these are getting backed up to iCloud. Can ...
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iCloud storage doesn't add up on in iPhone's “Manage Storage” panel
I'm looking at the "Manage Storage" panel, (accessible from Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup > Manage Storage) which shows a list of all the items being backed up along with a total. Or at ...
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How to move existing reminders to iCloud in the reminder app?
There is already a question on reordering of items in the reminder app, but I want to go one step further and move existing items from the device to iCloud. Is that possible at all?
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Contact syncing is not working for some contacts using iCloud
I've verified that at least some of my contacts are not properly syncing between my iPhone running iOS 5.1 and my Mac running OSX 10.7.3 (both the latest OS versions currently available).
Here, you ...
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How secure are iCloud backups?
Are iCloud backups encrypted, both when transmitted and stored?
Is it possible for someone at Apple to access any backup made to the data enter?
I have heard that when apps have been pulled from the ...
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Can iCloud's Documents and Data be configured to sync on a per-app basis?
I'm considering buying DayOne, a journaling app for iOS and Mac that syncs through iCloud's Documents and Data feature. I already own the iWork app suite on iOS and Mac, and I do not want to use ...
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How do you download new songs when “Show All Songs” is off?
When you enable iTues Match, you have a "Show All Songs" option. When it's on, the label text states:
All music that has been downloaded or that is stored in iCloud will be shown.
When you turn ...
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After iPad restore (from iCloud) apps still appear as 'waiting'
I just got the new iPad, and since I backed up my old iPad using iCloud, I restored from the iCloud backup. After restore, it restarted and began downloading all the apps.
Now, I have all these ...
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How to access Journals from iCloud.com
Is there a way to access Journals publish by iOS iPhoto, directly from icloud.com, without knowing the link already.
Currently I have to "share the link with a friend" before I can access it on ...
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iPad Contacts app incorrectly formats telephone numbers
Some time ago my iPad Contacts app has begun an odd behaviour of incorrectly formatting American telephone numbers. Instead of displaying "(415)-123-1234", for example, it displays "41 5123 1234". ...
