Q: I can't trust iCloud for back-up?!
My wife and I have multiple Macs and iPads backing up to iCloud. Today we logged in and our Pages documents are gone--not a few documents, but many, and valuable work lost. Lost? I have seen other posts related to Pages and Sheets documents deleted and unrecoverable after the most recent IOS upgrade. I have visited iCloud.com and looked for recoverable documents in the 'Advanced' section to see if the documents were there--they weren't. I've checked to see if iCloud is on in 'Settings' with all our devices--it is. Is Apple saying at this point that we shouldn't rely on iCloud for back-up because they can't ensure that our cloud-stored documents will survive our device-specific upgrades? Seriously? So I should relegate all iCloud devices to toy status because they're not reliable for work? Why would our device upgrades somehow override data that has been 'safely' stored remotely? Wasn't that the point of 'trusting' iCloud in the first place. Can somebody talk me down off this ledge I'm about to throw my (numerous) Apple work devices off of? Thank you.
iPad Mini, iOS 9.3.2
Posted on May 24, 2016 2:00 AM