Yes Daniel, I would be lost without iCloud keeping my "Contacts, Calendar, Notes, reminders, and mail accounts" synced to all my Mac computers, iPad and iPhone. Using Apple ID Two-Factor Authentication security ensures that you're the only person who can access your account, even if someone knows your password.
Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > On 4 Oct. 2016, at 8:57 pm, Daniel Kerr <dan...@macwizardry.com.au> wrote: > > I’d actually be lost without iCloud for my contacts. Keeping my iPhone, iPad, > iMac and laptop all in sync is great. And (call me a “fan boy”) but out of > any company, I’d rather trust Apple with my contacts then anyone else. With > the push for privacy and protection I generally feel safer with them holding > them then other places. And given their servers are very rarely actually > accessed my any “real” people bar a few techs and the structure in place just > to even access these “data farms” (well from what I’ve read about them > anyway), they are very limited with access. > Yes, I know anything online has a risk. But with 2-step verification on my > AppleID and everything locked away behind a secure password, I tend to feel > it’s pretty safe. > And given the amount of info Apple have stored, they do a pretty good job of > protecting I think. it’s very rare to have anything of theirs hacked, and > they do their best to always be on top of closing security vulnerabilities if > anything is found. Plus at least Apple don’t really use their data to > advertise or market to or “push” everything in our face (as does Google or > Facebook if you have to search things and then have all the “ads” popup days > later for things you’ve searched for). > Again, maybe I’m too much of a fan boy, and have faith in it all, but I find > it works well for me. And I’d be lost without it. (just my personal opinion > here). > > As an aside…. > If you don’t want to use iCloud, it’s quite easy to turn it all off. > You just save your Contacts from the File menu using “Export” - Contacts > Archive. > Save this out to the Desktop. > Go to System Preferences - iCloud. Untick Contacts. It well tell you it’s > going to remove them. Once they’re all gone. You can then import your > Contacts Archive from the Desktop back into Contacts using File - Import. > These will then all be saved under “On My Mac” contacts. > > You can repeat this on the iPhone > In Settings go to iCloud. Turn off Contacts. It will ask if you want to > delete or save them on the iPhone. Choose Keep. > You’ll then have them on the iPhone as “On my iPhone” contacts. > > If you then want to delete them out of iCloud completely. > You can go to www.icloud.com > Log in with your AppleID. > Go to Contacts. > Select all the Contacts. (Command-A) > Click on the “cogwheel” in the bottom left corner and choose “Delete”. > Then remove them all from iCloud online. This will then empty them all out. > > You can also repeat the process for Calendars as well if you don’t want to do > them as well. > Once you turn this off though, you won’t have the information syncing across > all the devices, so anytime something is updated, you’ll have to manual > change or enter it on every device. > > Hope that helps. > > Kind regards > Daniel > > Sent from my iPhone 6 > > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Apple** > > NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and > as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. > Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or > accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this > email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the > author be requested. > >> On 4 Oct 2016, at 8:30 pm, Michael Hawkins >> <michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au> wrote: >> >> Daniel, >> >> If only I'd known this a couple of weeks ago. In an unguarded moment Sierra >> went merrily ahead and shoved me onto iCloud (but not iCloud Drive). >> Attempts to turn iCloud preferences off result in a stern threat/warning >> that if I do that all contacts will be removed from my computer. It >> irritates the hell out of me - they're my contacts, collected since 1993. >> How dare Apple threaten to steal them. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael Hawkins >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On 4 Oct. 2016, at 8:04 pm, Daniel Kerr <dan...@macwizardry.com.au> wrote: >>> >>> For those on El Capitan, Apple have changed it slightly so it will auto >>> download the Sierra update and have it ready to go. >>> You still have the option to not install it, and have to “approve” the >>> install with password etc, so it still would give you the warning. But if >>> you don’t want it downloaded just yet, you can turn this off. >>> >>> More information on it here - >>> http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/03/macos-sierra-automatic-downloads/ >>> >>> Also, if you do install it and want to bypass the “iCloud Drive” setup, the >>> best option to do is to bypass signing into iCloud when you first install >>> Sierra. When you’re going through the “setup windows” after it first >>> installs and restarts you’ll get the “sign in to iCloud” screen. Click on >>> “skip for now”. >>> Then after you’ve gone through everything else and get to the Finder, you >>> can then go to System Preferences - iCloud. >>> From there you can then sign back into iCloud and then check on iCloud >>> drive and click on what things you want (or don’t want). >>> I tend to always do this with setups and new set ups, as I can then control >>> what changes I’m being asked to do. It’s more of a “safe” way to do it I >>> find. >>> >>> Hope something there helps. >>> >>> Kind regards >>> Daniel >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone 6 >>> >>> --- >>> Daniel Kerr >>> MacWizardry >>> >>> Phone: 0414 795 960 >>> Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> >>> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >>> >>> >>> **For everything Apple** >>> >>> NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and >>> as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of >>> MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of >>> warranty or accept liability. 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