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What Happens to Your Data If You Stop Paying for Cloud Storage?

wired.com David Nield 2025-12-07 08:30:00

If it's been a while since you added up how many digital subscriptions you're paying for, it's likely to be more than you think: streaming services, software packages, games, AI bots, health and fitness wearables ... the list goes on. You can add cloud storage subscriptions to that list too. Apple, Google, and Microsoft offer very little in the way of free storage in the cloud, which means if you want the convenience of having your photos, videos, and other files safely backed up and accessible

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Should you use iCloud Private Relay? Here’s how it works

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-21 03:36:48

9to5Mac is brought to you by Incogni: Protect your personal info from prying eyes. With Incogni, you can scrub your deeply sensitive information from data brokers across the web, including people search sites. Incogni limits your phone number, address, email, SSN, and more from circulating. Fight back against unwanted data brokers with a 30-day money back guarantee. If you’ve never heard about iCloud Private Relay, it is basically a privacy feature that Apple released in 2021 as part of the iCl

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Apple beats iCloud storage appeal over ‘deceptive’ paid upgrades

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-25 12:09:44

Lawsuits against Apple are filed all the time, all over the world. But one proposed class action over the company’s alleged “deceptive” iCloud storage plans was just shot down by a US appeals court. Here are the details. Plaintiff claimed advertised iCloud storage amounts were misleading, but court disagreed Jonathan Stempel writes at Reuters: A U.S. federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected claims by Apple customers that the iPhone maker gave them less iCloud data storage than they paid fo

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Infuse video player updated with iCloud Drive streaming support, more

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-12-30 03:33:08

Infuse, an excellent video player for Apple platforms, has gotten a nice update today. Infuse 8.2 is now available with support for user profiles on Apple TV, the ability to stream content directly from iCloud Drive, and more. First off, Infuse 8.2 adds the ability to use separate user profiles on Apple TV: The ability to use separate profiles is now available on Apple TV! With Infuse, each family member can enjoy a personalized setup—complete with custom home screen layouts, network shares, w

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Microsoft Authenticator on iOS moves backups fully to iCloud

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-23 03:37:27

Microsoft is rolling out a new backup system in September for its Authenticator app on iOS, removing the requirement to use a Microsoft personal account to back up TOTP secrets and account names. Previously, the Microsoft Authenticator app required iOS users to sign in with a personal Microsoft Account to enable backups, regardless of whether they were using the app for personal or enterprise credentials. This created problems in enterprise environments where organizations often like to keep p

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Apple adds Firefox support to iCloud Passwords on Windows

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-23 08:46:45

Apple has rolled out official support for Firefox in the latest update to its iCloud for Windows app, allowing users to autofill and access their iCloud Passwords directly in Mozilla’s browser for the first time. Hasn’t this been available for months? Not exactly. A Firefox extension for iCloud Passwords has been listed on the Mozilla Add-ons store for months, but it wasn’t functional on Windows. Until now, as observed on Reddit, only Chrome and Microsoft Edge were fully supported via the iClo

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iCloud is down for some users as outage impacts Photos, Mail, more

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-02-22 17:56:04

iCloud is currently down for some Apple users, impacting key apps and services like Photos, Mail, iWork, and more. Here’s what we know so far about the outage. iCloud outage hits several popular Apple services Downdetector.com shows spiking reports of iCloud being down. The outage appears to have started shortly after 1:00 p.m. Eastern time. According to Apple’s system status page, the outage impacts a variety of iCloud services, including: iCloud Mail iCloud Web Apps iCloud Storage Upgrad

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Apple must face lawsuit over iCloud storage, judge rules

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-03-09 07:36:19

Apple’s iCloud storage policies are unpopular with users for a variety of reasons. And according to a judge’s ruling, certain aspects of those policies might just be monopolistic, as Apple’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit related to iCloud storage has just been denied. Here’s what that means. iCloud storage lawsuit against Apple is moving forward in California Mike Scarcella writes at Reuters: Apple must face a proposed class action accusing the iPhone maker of illegally monopolizing the market

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Everything you need to know about Apple’s changes to encryption in the UK

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-09 12:21:36

Apple today announced that it has removed its Advanced Data Protection feature in the UK. The decision comes after the UK government ordered Apple to build a worldwide backdoor into iCloud encryption. Instead of complying with that order, Apple chose to remove the feature in the UK. There’s a huge piece of nuance getting missed in a lot of the coverage of today’s announcement. Apple is not “removing end-to-end encryption” from the UK as some headlines have suggested. The company is removing the

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Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature in the UK

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-09 12:40:22

Apple will no longer offer iCloud end-to-end encryption in the United Kingdom after the government requested a backdoor to access Apple customers' encrypted cloud data. As Apple told BleepingComputer on Friday, the optional Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature introduced in December 2022 will no longer be available for new users in the U.K. starting today. This decision follows a secret order from the United Kingdom government demanding that Apple create a backdoor that would provide access

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Apple Pulls iCloud Encryption Feature Following UK Government Demands

cnet.com Katie Collins 2025-11-09 14:24:00

Apple is withdrawing its Advanced Data Protection tool from the UK, leaving iCloud users without the highest level of encryption the company currently offers. The move comes just weeks after reports emerged that the British government was pressuring Apple to create a backdoor into its encrypted services for law enforcement and spying purposes. ADP is an opt-in security tool, which provides end-to-end encryption for iCloud services to those who want it. The UK's Home Office had refused to confir

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Latest Tech News

What Happens to Your Data If You Stop Paying for Cloud Storage?

Should you use iCloud Private Relay? Here’s how it works

Apple beats iCloud storage appeal over ‘deceptive’ paid upgrades

Infuse video player updated with iCloud Drive streaming support, more

Microsoft Authenticator on iOS moves backups fully to iCloud

Apple adds Firefox support to iCloud Passwords on Windows

iCloud is down for some users as outage impacts Photos, Mail, more

Apple must face lawsuit over iCloud storage, judge rules

Everything you need to know about Apple’s changes to encryption in the UK

Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature in the UK

Apple Pulls iCloud Encryption Feature Following UK Government Demands

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