It's that time of year again. No, not a day when Apple announces new products and/or services. It's Earnings Day, which means we get to find out just how much Apple managed to rake in over the last few months. Hint: it's a lot.
While iCloud services are currently experiencing some issues across various tools, Apple does have some good news to share. Directly to some developers, at least. In this case, it's related to iCloud sync, and the fact it hasn't been working so well for some third-party apps. But it looks like a fix is incoming.
All things considered, iCloud is a pretty solid service. It works more often than it doesn't, at least. However, it has been a pretty rough month for Apple's cloud services in the beginning of 2022. And it looks like January isn't going to close out without another issue cropping up.
Learn what to do if your iCloud contacts are missing in the Contacts app on your Mac, or if new ones are not syncing properly with it.
iCloud sync is a helpful feature not just for Apple's first-party apps, but also third-party alternatives available in the App Store. However, it appears that there has been a lingering issue causing many third-party apps to run into issues with iCloud sync. Which is leading many app users to point the finger in the wrong direction as Apple remains quiet on the subject.
iOS 15.3 helps resolve iCloud Private Relay error messages by no longer blaming cell carriers when the feature gets inadvertently turned off due to a network issue.
Every once in a while, Apple's cloud services, and the features/apps attached to them, run into a bit of an issue. Typically speaking, Apple isn't quick to go out of its way to detail what those issues might be. But, the company's official system status page can let us all know when a problem crops up.
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Learn how to use iCloud Private Relay on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac to encrypt the traffic leaving your device and make your web browsing more private.
Learn how to sign out of iCloud or your Apple ID and sign in again on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac, as well as the consequences and possible side effects associated to that.
Learn how to create a full iCloud backup of your iPhone or iPad if you're switching to a new device but don't have enough iCloud storage space on your Apple Account.
Apple has updated iCloud for Windows, with version 13 now available with support for Apple ProRes videos, Apple ProRAW photos, strong password generation and more.