GarageBand main folder is missing after I restored my iPhone from backup. A lot of files were there but my main folder of 150+ projects says zero files. How can I check my iCloud account from my phone? It’s not on my other devices either. 💔 our song

Here’s the deal though: I’ve figured out that on a certain date in February my phone stopped saving to iCloud despite the fact that all settings were correct and plenty of storage in iCloud. Meanwhile my wife’s phone has saved regularly to iCloud. What’s weird is that until that date, she and I were accessing the same list of songs in GarageBand. Ever since that date NONE of the songs I made appeared in her list and NONE of the songs she made appeared in my list except the songs made prior to whatever changed that day in February. Both our phones are and always have been signed into my apple account. My iCloud account.

I’m investigating now. But the only thing I can guess at this point is that either:

1. My phone got signed out of iCloud on iCloud.com. I have no idea how?

Or

When I signed up for more storage on iCloud, maybe my iCloud storage location splintered into 2 locations?

Or

3. Somehow I have become signed in to 2 different iCloud accounts?

Either way, the 2 storage locations on GarageBand are listed as iCloud Drive, or my phone. And now it appears that every file I’ve made on my phone since that day in February, despite being stored in “iCloud Drive” in GarageBand, having tons of room on iCloud, and no apparent difference from my wife’s phone regarding service/internet/etc. is gone forever. 150+ songs. At least 400 hours of work. All gone.

And to make things even stranger, every other element on my phone has been saving to iCloud regularly, photos, emails, calls, voicemails, etc. even phone backups. But ALL my iCloud Drive data never saved once since that day in February and I got NO emails that day that would suggest some kind of change or purchase or anything that would have affected my iCloud Drive or iCloud account. I’m getting more and more ****** off as I look into this.

t seems a folder called “GarageBand for iOS” was created at 9:07am the day everything went screwy with my iCloud account. I don’t remember creating that folder (I would’ve called it something more creative than that). But this is the folder I put most of my files in since that day. Furthermore, my wife also has a folder called “GarageBand for iOS” on her GarageBand program under iCloud Drive and she has about 65 projects in that which are different and all intact. *** is going on? This is so weird?!

So Apple support told me my iCloud Drive glitched our because I had 2 phones signed in with the same Apple ID. He said sign out on one phone and sign in with a different new id. So I did and I lost the OTHER half of my files. I’m beyond words. So I have been told “use the same Apple ID” & “no don’t use the same Apple ID.” And now I’m screwed. Estimate 600 hours of work lost because I trusted iCloud Drive. GarGeband is a great program. But it still hurts every time I open it. NEVER trust 1 backup source. Ever. Golden rule of recording.

My wife’s Mac is not signed in under my Apple ID and when I signed into iCloud on her browser iCloud said “it was not available right now” and booted me off 3 times. So I haven’t been able to check on iCloud.com yet. When I read about it it said to check iCloud Drive on computer make sure you’re signed in under the same Apple ID. This is becoming a downward spiral. I am going to try restoring the iPhone from its backup I made right before changing its Apple ID and hope that it can access those files. Ironically I have these Mac devices to ensure projects are backed up among various sources but they won’t communicate for various reasons. I won’t give up! I’ve lost so many songs now I have to recover some of them. Even if I have to go 1 at a time. iCloud Drive sounds great on paper but so far it’s been a colossal heartbreak.