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luna248 Author

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How do you stop syncing across devices but still enable iCloud?

I don't want my iPhone photos syncing with my iPad photos and vice versa but I would still like both synced to iCloud. I noticed the only way is to achieve this is if my iCloud is full. That's my main concern, but I would also like to know if that can be applied to the notes app or other miscellaneous apps without toggling them off in iCloud on each device. And now that I think about it, can a solution be applied to my Mac using the same iCloud/Apple ID as well?

iPhone 11, iOS 13

Posted on May 27, 2020 4:57 AM

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RethinkYourSoftware

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9 points

Posted on Jun 18, 2020 9:38 AM

After years of resisting, I signed up for iCloud 2 TB last week. I wanted to use iCloud to backup ***NOT SYNC** the apple devices in my house. I did not realize that iCloud is not well designed and is now insisting on stuffing all the junk from my wife's iPhone and my iMac on to my phone. Then it is complaining that the phone storage is full. Duh!!!!! Do you guys take any pride in your software design! My wife's phone is getting the same message. How does one untangle this mess and roll back to pre-syncing pre-icloud status on each of these three devices? And then how do I cancel my iCloud subscription without losing any ORIGINAL data on each device?

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