iCloud For Windows Users Report of Corrupted Videos, Photos From Strangers (9to5mac.com) 25
There are ongoing issues apparently affecting the iCloud for Windows app, particularly in regards to photo and video storage. According to a number of online complaints from users, iCloud for Windows is corrupting certain videos. There are also reports of a more worrying problem: photos from strangers popping up in people's iCloud Photo library. 9to5Mac reports: MacRumors rounded up some of these complaints via complaints posted to their forums. According to an affected user, videos taken with the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro models aren't being properly synced with iCloud for Windows. When certain videos are recorded and the synced with iCloud for Windows, they then turn "black with scan lines, rendering the videos unwatchable."
While that problem is bad enough, some other users say they are seeing photos and even videos they do not recognize in their photo libraries. The speculation here is that these photos or videos could be from other people's iCloud libraries, though nothing has been confirmed yet. [...] These problems appear to be affecting the dedicated iCloud for Windows app itself, not the recently-launched iCloud Photos integration in Windows 11. The culprit seems to be the handoff of certain file types between the iPhone and iCloud rendering on Windows. The problem certainly appears to be a server-side issue on Apple's side, rather than something on Microsoft's side.
While that problem is bad enough, some other users say they are seeing photos and even videos they do not recognize in their photo libraries. The speculation here is that these photos or videos could be from other people's iCloud libraries, though nothing has been confirmed yet. [...] These problems appear to be affecting the dedicated iCloud for Windows app itself, not the recently-launched iCloud Photos integration in Windows 11. The culprit seems to be the handoff of certain file types between the iPhone and iCloud rendering on Windows. The problem certainly appears to be a server-side issue on Apple's side, rather than something on Microsoft's side.
Do. Not. Trust. (Score:3)
iSomebodyElsesComputer.
Re: Do. Not. Trust. (Score:2)
It has been confirmed that there was something wrong with the Apple Cider, not the Kool Aid
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msVoyeur (Score:2)
Finally an Azure feature I actually want!
Re: msVoyeur (Score:3)
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Drats! It's trolls like you who spoil all the fun of the webtubes, where it's in the ideal state of being only half-twisted.
How? (Score:1)
Someone explain to me how this is possible. All these cloud servcies need to do is store whatever the user uploads. There should never, ever, be a reason for the service to fiddle with the file itself.
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Oh did you think iCloud was a general-purpose file storage system, or that Apple would allow videos in non-Apple-approved formats to be stored?
Re: How? (Score:1)
Apple are, and have always been Internet dilettantes.
Want to argue about it? Reach me on Apple Link. No wait, Mac.com. No wait, Mobile Me. No wait, eWorld. No, wait, iTools. No, wait, .Mac. No, wait, iCloud, but not on Windows ATM...
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Re: How? (Score:2)
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Simple: Design and implementation by complete idiots. That will do it.
History does not repeat but it does rhyme (Score:2)
Luckily for Apple they can continue to manufacture iPhones forever to fund all the failures.
I can believe this... (Score:3)
...some time ago, maybe ten years or so, about a thousand contacts mysteriously appeared in my iCloud-synced contacts app on my mac.
Addresses, phone numbers, names. Everything. People I'd never heard of in my life. Hundreds of them.
You've got to wonder what kind of database design you'd have to use to end up messing up that badly.
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You think they have "database design"? Oh sweet summer child...
I think I see the problem. (Score:2)
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You source for this is... what, exactly?
My iPhone6s has seen this for years (Score:1)