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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [NEWS] Apple releases M3 MacBook Air models
Date: 7 Mar 2024 23:04:03 GMT
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On 2024-03-07, dgb <david@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
> On 7 Mar 2024 at 21:32:54 GMT, "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2024-03-07, dgb <david@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>>> On 7 Mar 2024 at 16:42:05 GMT, "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2024-03-07, dgb <david@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I believe iCloud can and does store material without necessarily
>>>>> sending it to other Apple devices.
>>>> 
>>>> That's not its primary purpose though. As exampled, photos,
>>>> contacts, reminders, calendars, iCloud Drive documents, app
>>>> settings, and so on are all synchronized between all of your
>>>> devices. Add one and it appears on all of your devices. Remove one
>>>> from one device, and it gets removed from iCloud and your other
>>>> devices.
>>> 
>>> I totally accept that!
>>> 
>>> However, I can store any other item I wish.
>> 
>> Yes, but the default behavior is if you delete it, it gets deleted
>> from your other devices.
>
> Perhaps you are not aware of changes made to iCloud.
>
> If you put Documents into iCloud, they are not added to iPhone and/or
> iPad.
>
> See:-  https://i.ibb.co/ZfPsSjg/Screenshot-2024-03-07-at-22-19-10.png

No, that's incorrect. iCloud Drive is not a generic cloud file storage
service. Things you add to iCloud Drive are made available to all of the
Apple devices that are logged in with the same Apple ID. 

Apple's webpage about it:

<https://support.apple.com/en-us/109344>

Go ahead and try it for yourself. 😉

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