Which is a very unpleasant thing to find out after you went on a summer vacation to the area without the internet, hoping to plug off, having downloaded a bunch of books you were hoping to read.
This is the most infuriating moment of using a piece of technology I've ever had.
I'm posting this here on the off chance that someone from Apple reads this, since that happens with threads on HN sometimes.
We’re about to board a long haul flight and our son was too eager to download Netflix kids programs so that space ran out. Apple has a default policy of offloading unused apps to conserve space. Unfortunately it offloaded the Netflix app itself :-/
- I could not tell iCloud which files i needed locally, or configure it in any way
- iCloud constantly uploaded files that I recently used and needed
- Sometimes it took very long to get them back
E.g. I would have a python script with a venv and because some files would not be there locally, the excecution failed. And even though I had internet access, I could keep clicking on the cloud-icon to fetch the file, and nothing happend... It was nightmarish. No I'm trying to quit iCloud, but I first have to understand how to get all my files back and what will get deleted when I quit. Not too easy...
Solution....I just turn it off...
The problem with auto cloud backup is that short of just taking photos.... even somewhat casual users will fill their quota infinitely.
You can even turn off iBooks from using iCloud in Settings.
Your second suggestion seems like it is blaming the user. How does the user know this is the action Apple will take upon low disk space? Isn't the sane thing that downloads are left alone, whether or not cloud backup is turned on?
That’s not really a precise phrase. It’s recoverable, but with a delayed outage (denial of service).
Hopefully some industrious programmer eventually figures that out, it would be really useful. The genesis of such a library would be so useful. Too bad it would be really hard to keep the pirates at bay!
Device was low on memory. Books where saved on iCloud. The devices offloaded the books to make space.
How does downloading them through other means help?
1. Delete the books anyway but notify 2. Don’t delete the books/apps, notify user that memory is running out
The SYSTEM decides what's offloaded to the iCloud. The SYSTEM decides that you can't start up your Windows machine to print that report that's due in 10 minutes, because it just absolutely must spend 40 minutes completing its updates before it will let you do anything with the computer.
How hard is it to have a list of things to be offloaded, downloaded, updated, or whatever? Then the USER gets to select what happens with what, rather than the SYSTEM deciding, and often wrongly.
It’s such an obvious deal-breaker, I don’t understand how “let’s delete your stuff all the time, even in offline mode” made it through testing.
I was at the airport for an intercontinental flight and wanted to quickly download another album, so I disabled Spotify's offline mode. At that point it started re-downloading everything over airport Wifi. Needless to say I was not amused.
I've learned to stay away from Apple ecosystem altogether, because it rarely brings anything good to my life in the long term.
If you insert your SIM in an iPhone or iPad, then yes your number will be registered for iMessage and all iOS users will default to iMessaging you.
You cannot FaceTime to or from your phone number without your SIM being inserted in the device. In the absence of this, you can FaceTime just fine using your Apple ID as the identifier.
You logged in with your personal Apple ID and stayed logged in.
Just use the family option for getting apps on kids/family members devices.