Apple's online storage, synchronization, and general cloud services
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How can I use iCloud to sync my contacts, while also syncing my contacts with Google?
If you have Google contact syncing enabled in 10.7.1 or earlier, then upgrade to 10.7.2 and try to enable iCloud contact syncing, you will see the following dialog:
Is it possible to have both ...
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What are some best practices for a family sharing a single Apple ID?
My family shares an apple ID, and I can't chose whose contacts I want to sync with when I set up Icloud. For example, I own a Mac and an iPhone. I want my content to only be synced between MY Mac and ...
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How many Apple IDs should one household have?
To date my wife and I share one Apple ID for all Apple purchases and devices. We currently own a first and third generation iPod, iPhone 4, and will own an iPad 2 in the morning. Thus far having the ...
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How do I view my iCloud Photo Stream online?
I set up iCloud when I installed iOS 5 on my iPhone and was excited about Photo Stream. I logged into icloud.com and found there are no photos. What gives? I was hoping that this would end the need to ...
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How do I remove the iCloud-first behavior in Mountain Lion?
In Mountain Lion, I have iCloud activated for Documents. I'd like document-saved-in-the-cloud to be an option, but not the default, as in "if I choose iCloud from the dropdown, save in iCloud, else ...
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How to remotely view photos uploaded to iCloud?
Is it possible to view the photos we upload to iCloud from icloud.com or somewhere else?
Are the photos available anywhere?
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iTunes Match - This item is not eligible for iCloud
I signed up for iTunes Match and have uploaded nearly all of my collection to iCloud. Unfortunately, I have several tracks that have given me the following error:
This thread indicates that I can ...
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Is there a way to enable “Find my Mac” to locate your computer but not remotely wipe the drive?
Find My Mac is a useful feature of iCloud to locate your computer. As recent events have shown, however, if bad guys gain control of one's iCloud account, they can wreak havoc, including remotely ...
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How can I get explicit versions of songs from iCloud?
I use iCloud / iTunes Match and have just discovered that all my lovely songs with explicit lyrics have been replaced by versions with clean ones. In some instances it's fine, and it doesn't bother ...
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Will iTunes Match let me “upgrade” existing tracks to higher quality or bitrate?
I want to pay the $25/year for iTunes Match specifically to get my thousands of low-bitrate tracks "upgraded" to high-bitrate.
Will I be able to invoke the service, get high-bitrate tracks downloaded ...
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How does one export all contacts from iCloud?
How does one export all contacts from iCloud in some sort of standard format? I would prefer to keep a backup in case my sync goes bad and I'm yet to find a way to export all my contacts. I would hate ...
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How can I get a me.com e-mail address?
Was this a service only offered with Apple's Mobile Me? Is there anyway I can still get an e-mail address ending in @me.com?
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Is there a way to access iCloud's Photo Stream from the Finder, similar to Windows?
On Windows, Photo Stream works in a way that all the files are automatically copied to your 'My Pictures' folder or the like.
I currently have Photo Stream working in Aperture, but every once in a ...
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How to stop syncing apps with iTunes without wiping them from my iPhone?
Is there a way I can stop syncing apps with iTunes without first obliterating the apps from the iPhone and re-downloading them?
Now that iOS 5 and iCloud are released, I want to stop storing all my ...
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How to sync iCloud contacts with Google?
I recently started using the Gmail app on my iOS devices because it has better search functionality than the native Mail app. However, that means that when I'm writing emails the app is using my Gmail ...
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Can an iPhone be used without iTunes?
Can an iPhone (all current models) please be used without having to install iTunes on my home PC?
Would I need to have my local Apple store activate it for me?
What functionality (if any) would I ...
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How do I restore my iPhone from an iCloud backup?
I just installed iOS 5 on my iPhone 4 several days ago, and I backed it up to iCloud. After performing a sync with my PC, it deleted a bunch of apps. I'd like to restore these from the iCloud backup.
...
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What do the various iTunes Match icons in iTunes mean?
Enabling iTunes Match adds a new default column to song lists in iTunes that displays several new icons:
What do each of these icons (as well as no icon at all) mean?
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Can I use Back To My Mac's mDNS address and for ssh and other routing of traffic?
On Lion and iCloud, the old MobileMe and Snow Leopard mDNS naming has changed and no longer works.
I'm wondering how to use command line tools to find out the DNS name that Apple has assigned to my ...
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Can the iCloud sync progress be observed?
I have my Mac running OS X 10.8 set up so that I can see the contents of its iCloud repository at ~/Library/Mobile Documents (see this question and this question for more information on how that ...
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How does iTunes Match handle metadata?
When I purchase songs from iTunes, I often times hate the way the MetaData is presented. For example, I prefer the format
Artist Song Name
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artist_name ...
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After deleting an app, can you (much) later reinstall it and restore its data from iCloud?
I have several games that, combined, use up a pretty good chunk of my iPhone's flash. I haven't played some of them for a while, and would like to remove them. However, at least before iCloud, ...
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Merge e-mail addresses on iCloud
I have made a mistake. I'm a developer and while testing iCloud I made an @me.com (let's call it dummy@me.com) account. Now I am setting up iCloud on all my devies and would like to use my original ...
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Move iPhone notes to iCloud
So, today 10.8 released, and I have empty list of notes on my mac. But I have some notes on iPhone, which are not in iCloud. How to move them into iCloud?
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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 do I set up iCloud for a family?
What is the right way to set up iCloud for a family? Assume that I want to share iTunes store account, have separate mail, contacts, bookmarks and notes, but have the possibility of sharing calendars ...
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Exchange contacts do not appear in iCloud
On my iPad and iPhone I have several email accounts: three Gmail and one Exchange account. I stopped using the Exchange account and tried to remove it from the iPhone, but also all my contacts were ...
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Can I sync Address Book to iCloud on Snow Leopard?
I've updated my iPhone to iOS 5, but my Mac(s) are still on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Syncing Contacts to iCloud is enabled in iPhone settings. Now, I was wondering is it possible to make Address Book ...
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iCloud on Mountain Lion: one account per Mac or one per user?
Before installing Mountain Lion and using iCloud for the first time, I would like to know how it can be configured.
My iMac has three standard user accounts and one admin account. If I understand ...
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How can I leave Gmail for Mail?
I've decided I want to take the plunge and leave Gmail for Mail, using my iCloud account. Why? I've lost trust in Google (incl. their search bias, how they handle my privacy, and how they treat the ...
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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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Is it possible to only see contacts with phone numbers?
I recently started syncing my iPad and iPhone with iCloud. I selected to merge my contact list into iCloud from both devices. The problem is that, while I use my iPad for my email, I don't use it at ...
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How can I change a defunct Apple ID email address?
I never changed my student email account to which all app purchases have been made. I just upgraded to iOS 5, and it requires to authenticate the iCloud, by verifying an email sent to the now defunct ...
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Access iCloud mail via http from iPhone
There are times when you can't use any TCP ports other than 80 (HTTP) or 443 (HTTPS), so you can't use Mail accounts that communicate with iCloud via IMAP/POP3/SMTP. But when you go to iCloud.com, it ...
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How can I reset the Safari bookmarks in iCloud?
iCloud has duplicated my bookmarks and bookmark folders many times. Now I cleaned all the bookmarks on my Mac but iCloud keeps syncing the old data and the deleted bookmarks reappear. On the ...
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Does iTunes Match keep updating?
I just subscribed to iTunes Match and it's currently scanning my library.
I've got a few tracks named as 'track 1', 'track 2', and 'unknown artist'. My plan is to clean up my library (some day). But ...
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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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Once iOS files are backed up to iCloud, can you access them programmatically?
Is there a way to get the same files you can find in a local backup of an iPhone / iOS device from iCloud programmatically?
Ideally, I would like to access them from a computer, but any access other ...
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“This Apple ID is valid but is not an iCloud account”
Trying to sign into iCloud on my Macbook and I get this error message. I've also had some trouble signing into the same account with iCloud on iPad and iPhone, but the messages there are even more ...
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Is it possible to restore individual app data (over iCloud)?
I am upgrading to a new iPhone 5 from an iPod touch, and I want a shiny new, fresh install.
I would rather not restore the whole shebang from my tired old, disorganized, app-laden, settings-broken ...
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Sending email from iCloud with a different Reply-to field
I want to use iCloud's email service (me.com) as the ultimate destination for my incoming mail, as well as the repository of all my Sent mail. And when people reply to my email, I want it to be sent ...
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How to not sync apps to iTunes 11
Since iCloud now offers a way for me to download apps directly from the cloud and I only want to keep updating the apps I use on my iOS device and not all that I have, I wanted to keep all my apps ...
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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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How can I figure out which keychain entries a process wants access to
I'm getting really tired of seeing this:
As I understand it, ubd (the Ubiquity daemon) is responsible for the “Documents and Data” portion of iCloud's syncing. However, all of my iCloud-related data ...
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Is it possible to export all my iPhone contacts to my iPad 2?
Does anyone know of a way to export all my contacts from my iPhone straight into my iPad 2 without having to re-type all of them in?
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How to store Mac documents in the iCloud?
So, iCloud is now available to all Mac and iOS5 users.
I don't (yet) have an iOS5 device, but i do have OS X Lion with iCloud installed. I've set it all up nice and (almost) easy. In iCloud PrefsPane ...
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What iOS apps will take pictures and not send them to Photo Stream by default?
I'm looking for a way to take pictures without them going into the Photo Stream. Rather than have to remember to toggle it on and off as I adore it for my personal pictures, I'm looking for an app ...
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How can I access my iCloud files on my Mac?
When I save a file that I've written in TextEdit, it saves to iCloud by default. If I close the file, and close TextEdit, the only way for me to find that file is by searching it in Spotlight and ...
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Why doesn't my new @me.com email address work?
The Problem:
I've just updated to OSX 10.7.2, with iCloud support. Everything works fine. Except... when I try to enable 'mail and notes' under iCloud settings, it just gets stuck displaying ...
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What is the workflow between iWork apps with iCloud?
I have Numbers and Pages for iOS and the Mac. With iOS 5, I can create documents and spreadsheets in iCloud. How can I access those same iCloud documents in the Mac versions? Even better yet, if I ...
