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kah22 Author

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I’m confused about Apple iCloud. Correct me if I’m wrong and set me in the right direction

When I buy an Apple product I have a small amount of cloud space, I can buy more for a small fee.

My confusion is what this space is and what use is it! As I understand it it if I create a document on my iPad it is automatically stored on iCloud. But, and here is one of my difficulties, if I delete a file from the iPad it is automatically deleted from the cloud and all other Apple products I have eg my iPhone.

So let’s say I want to delete a file from my iPad: text, music, video, whatever, but still have access to it can I keep it up there in iCloud, if not what do I have to do to hold on to it. I do appreciate there are other cloud backup services out there but surely Apple have something where we can store files safely and long term!

Posted on Feb 14, 2022 12:47 PM

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muguy

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Posted on Feb 14, 2022 2:34 PM

iCloud is a synchronization service, not offline storage. If you sync to iCloud, and delete/change/modify/add a file to your device it will be reflected everywhere the same way (deleted files are deleted, changed files are changed, etc.).

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