What is REMOTEICLOUDQUOTAUI USED FOR?

KiltedTim wrote:

You need to provide context for this. Without context, it’s just a collection of letters.

TirEDOffrickNDamnHaCKERZ0nMyPh: we can’t help with this, nor with whatever you seem to believe is happening here.

KiltedTim: It’s a system service that shows up in iCloud settings, and a service that is occasionally (and quite questionably) reported as an indication of an exploit.

As far as I can tell, it’s just another benign and mundane part (of iOS and iPadOS) that shows up when iCloud gets going with its usual activities.

Assuming ongoing issues or symptoms or concerns or perceptions of being hacked, and—again, inferring from the nick—the poster has undoubtedly posted previous requests for assistance before, and will have undoubtedly received security-related advice and performed all that, and is still concerned. Or is still hacked, or re-hacked, in the fairly unlikely case this would be an actual compromise.

Which in aggregate means this case will be headed for collecting forensics information and particularly evidence of the claimed compromise. System services cellular data process activity not being particularly good evidence of compromise, irrespective of what some websites might claim,

TL;DR: Not much we can add here, past the usual Apple safety / privacy / security docs, updating to current, password sanitation, and suggesting forensics and evidence collection, and gaining knowledge around iOS and iPadOS internals and operations.

You need to provide context for this. Without context, it’s just a collection of letters.

TirEDOffrickNDamnHaCKERZ0nMyPh wrote:

Can you go to cellular tap system services.

then scroll all the way down to bottom of page and bam it’s right there.

Tried that, but about halfway down the list I find AccessibilityUIServer, but nothing about REMOTEICLOUDQUOTAUI.

ChrisJ4203 wrote:

I've seen similar posts about seeing this UI report, but where are they seeing this? Does it just appear on the screen like a notification?

Reportedly, Settings > Cellular > System Services, as mentioned in another reply.

There are a handful of reports of this posted around the 'net.

None of the reports found seem particularly well-sourced, either.

I've checked local devices, and my usage of iPhone and iCloud and cellular data appears different than that of TirEDOffrickNDamnHaCKERZ0nMyPh, or there's been a glitch or issue on some devices.

Whether this is evidence of compromise is entirely unclear. Given my experience with iCloud, I'd initially tend to assume something in iCloud or iOS got confused or corrupted, or there's some particular local service in use. As an example of differing local usages with differing activities, some folks here use iCloud for backups, and some will back up locally.

ChrisJ4203 wrote:

I've seen similar posts about seeing this UI report, but where are they seeing this? Does it just appear on the screen like a notification?

I think most people are seeing the Accessibility UI in Battery Usage (or Data usage?). Also, some people, despite all the advice to the contrary, will start trying to read the analytics. That way lies madness.

MrHoffman has been amazingly patient in one of those AccessiblityUI threads. Hats off!

I've seen similar posts about seeing this UI report, but where are they seeing this? Does it just appear on the screen like a notification?

Thank you Idris.