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How to restore deleted or missing contacts on your iPhone

Losing a contact stored on your iPhone can be a panic-inducing experience, but a quick trip to iCloud will restore your lost contacts. We show you how to do it.
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How to remove someone else’s Apple ID from your iPhone

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This hidden iOS 16 feature turned my iPhone into the ultimate music discovery gadget

Enabling Advanced Data Protection on an iPhone

How to use Advanced Data Protection on your iPhone (and why you should)

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Windows 11 will now work more seamlessly with Apple iCloud

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How to sync content from a Mac to an iPhone or iPad

How to Hide Apps on an iPhone.

How to delete contacts on an iPhone: Easy and quick methods

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Cloud services are convenient, but they hurt smart home longevity

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Apple’s Private Relay VPN seems to be leaking user data

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Carriers are, unsurprisingly, blocking Apple’s iCloud Private Relay feature

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How to use Private Relay in iOS 15

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Everything you need to know about iCloud+

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Half-hour outage affects Apple App Store, iMessage, iCloud Drive, and more

Apple's App Store and some of its iCloud services experienced a half-hour outage. By midafternoon, it had been resolved.
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How to use iCloud for backups on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac

Check out our comprehensive guide on how to use iCloud to get the most out of MacOS and iOS, including freeing up space and backing up your device’s data.
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The best Google Photos alternatives

Google is killing its free storage plan for Google Photos. That means it's time to weigh your options and find the best Google Photos alternative for you.
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Apple’s 5GB of free iCloud storage is pitiful, but you should still happily pay for more

Apple offers 5GB of free iCloud storage to all users, and that's a little limited. That said, if you do pay for more, you won't regret it.
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Apple gradually restores multiple services knocked offline

Multiple Apple services suffered a serious outage Tuesday night, with iCloud, the App Store, Apple TV+, Apple Music, and Apple Arcade among those affected.
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iCloud doesn’t encrypt your data, but these cloud storage apps do

Apple's iCloud doesn't encrypt your data, but other companies do. Check out the companies that are committed to providing encrypted, end-to-end protection.
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Apple’s iCloud went down for some users on Wednesday

Apple said users were experiencing problems accessing iCloud on Wednesday. It is still unclear what caused the outage. A similar event happened last month.
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Report says Apple doesn’t secure iCloud backups because the FBI asked it not to

A new report claims Apple backtracked on its plan to end-to-end encrypt iPhone owners’ iCloud backups after the FBI, citing that the move would harm investigations, hounded it not to go ahead with it two years ago. Before launching, the company consulted the FBI and upon objection, it dropped the plan.
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Eve Cam is a HomeKit indoor security camera that saves your recordings in iCloud

Apple fans now have an indoor security camera just for them. Eve Systems has released its newest product, the Eve Cam, and it is the first indoor camera made exclusively for Apple HomeKit Secure Video. With the new Eve Cam, you can see video right on your iPhone's lock screen.
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Apple working with Microsoft? Service strategy puts iCloud on Microsoft Store

Want to sync your files between Apple and Microsoft devices? It’s easier than ever now that iCloud has come to the Microsoft Store. Apple and Microsoft rarely team up, but the two rivals have come together to bring iCloud for Windows to the Microsoft Store for the first time.
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Apple’s iCloud is experiencing issues across more than a third of its services

Users around the world are experiencing serious issues with multiple iCloud tools. Apple's cloud-based service includes features such as iCloud Drive, Photos, iCloud Mail, iCloud Calendar, and Find My iPhone. The company's System Status page shows that more than a third of iCloud services are hit.
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How to protect your iCloud account

Worried about tales of iCloud identify theft and hacking? Here's how to protect your iCloud account with several additional security measures that everyone should enable. We'll help you know where to go and fill you in on why these steps are so important.
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There’s no silver lining for iCloud users, and Apple needs to fix it

It’s important to be able to backup your photos, messages, and files, and to have them sync across devices, but Apple’s iCloud service is lagging behind the competition. With few changes since it was introduced and just 5GB of free storage, it’s about time Apple made some improvements.
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If you’re using iCloud for photos, you’re doing it wrong. Here’s a better way

Apple's cloud-based storage system might seem attractive at first glance, but Google Photos has far more to offer. Here's why you should opt for the latter platform, and how to do so.
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RAW Power app means seamless iCloud integration for editing RAW on the go

Building on the success of the desktop program, the new RAW Power app allows photographers to sync their RAW edits with iCloud.
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Amazon gives Alexa iCloud support as Apple reportedly preps its own speaker

Hot on the heels of news that Apple is planning a Siri speaker to take on Amazon Echo, the retail giant has added iCloud Calendar support.
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WhatsApp continues to make app safer, adds encryption to iCloud backups

WhatsApp has quietly made its app even safer than it already is with the addition of encryption for iCloud backups.
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Hackers demand Apple pay up or millions of iCloud accounts will be wiped

Hackers are attempting to extort Apple by threatening to wipe iCloud accounts and connected devices unless Apple pays a ransom.
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How and why Apple is taking charge of its own cloud services

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Meet Optimized Storage, MacOS Sierra's best kept secret

MacOS Sierra does a lot of cool stuff, but there's one stand-out feature that's easy to miss: Optimized Storage.
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Apple adds new top-tier iCloud storage option of 2 terabytes for $20 per month

Apple is expanding its iCloud storage service by offering up to 2TB for $20 per month. The move comes just one week before the launch of the iPhone 7.
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Celebgate: Second hacker faces jail time for stealing nude pics