So how safe is the "cloud"

The reality is that we are all in the cloud assuming you use things like email, credit cards, ATM's, online banking or commerce.

To be completely secure, you need to sever your connection to the internet.

It's a matter of choice. Weiging risk versus benefit.

Matt

I believe most content can still be synced between an iPad(/iPhone/iPod Touch) and a Mac via the sync cable and iTunes, though I'm not sure how much of that has changed since iOS5 was released, which one of the main new features was iCloud integration.

I use iCloud for Notes, Contacts and Photos and have not had any issues. I thought ahead when I created my AppleID, as I do with all online accounts and used an email address that is for my AppleID only.

Please don't post polls on this site. It's against the terms of use that you agreed to when you registered, and it detracts from the purpose of the site, which is to exchange technical help among end users. There are plenty of other websites where you can discuss the issues you raise.

For notes at least you can't. It's bloody stupid.

Either Apple adds the functionality back or I'm gone.

The next iPhone is coming out, if this does not get sorted out by then, I'm probably going to get another phone - I'm willing to drop to the phone's "file access" mode if I have to. All I wanted was to keep data between my devices synced and my data is to stay only on my devices, no where else. I don't care if I have to connect a wire and manually sync it.

For notes at least you can't.

What?

Notes can be synched using virtually any IMAP mail account. No need for iCloud.

Matt

What?

Notes can be synched using virtually any IMAP mail account. No need for iCloud.

Matt

No account IMAP or whatever.

I want it between my iPhone and my Mac, no where else.

No account IMAP or whatever.

I want it between my iPhone and my Mac, no where else.

You'll need an IMAP email account to synch notes. You can turn off the Mail part if you don't want to use that. But you'll need either an iCloud account (again you can turn off everything ecept Notes if you want) or some other IMAP account.

Matt

The iCloud features work only with iCloud. Some of the things people use iCloud for, such as synchronizing files between Macs, can be done without it, but there's no other solution that is as closely integrated with OS X. I myself do not use iCloud.

Notes is a bit unique in that it works as a kind of specialized email.

If you open System Preferences>Mail, Contact & Calendars and click on an IMAP email account in the sidebar you should see, at minimum, Mail and Notes.

Reminders are a little different. If you have a Yahoo or Gmail account they support Calendars & Reminders in addition to Mail and Contancts

Keep in mind though that any syncing done by an IMAP account or Yahoo or Gmail you're still as much in the cloud as you are with iCloud.

Matt

You'll need an IMAP email account to synch notes. You can turn off the Mail part if you don't want to use that. But you'll need either an iCloud account (again you can turn off everything ecept Notes if you want) or some other IMAP account.

Matt

Let me put it this way. Since I started using my iPhone 4 and MacBook Pro, my notes have synced without any mail account - no third party servers, nothing - it synced direct between the phone and my Macbook under the heading "On my Mac". I plan to keep it that way.

Amaru55 wrote:

So that's what i tought.....so the new iCloud features within Mountain lion such as syncing notes, reminders and all the other good stuff can only be done through using iCloud....if not the regular calendar, contacts, mail accounts are the only thing you can sync???

Yes, that's basically correct.

Matt