Showing posts with label iCloud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iCloud. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Not receiving SMS two factor authentication codes for Facebook, Instagram, others: remove blocked numbers

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A friend was not receiving Facebook SMS two factor authentication codes on his iPhone. I removed all his blocked numbers and he received the...
Friday, April 28, 2023

iOS App Update hangs without an error message in infinite download: a general approach

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Apple's FairPlay DRM management is notoriously fragile. It can be confused by family sharing, Screen Time controls, payment method chang...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

iPhone Recovery Key attack vector kills your iCloud access: Workarounds pending an Apple fix including Apple ID protection

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Someone who has your iPhone passcode can lock you out of your Apple iCloud and Apple ID services -- as well as take control of your iPhone a...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Managing sync issues in the Apple Notes app - what I do

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I use Apple's Notes app fairly often. It's come a long way from early days but it has its share of bugs. The two I run into most oft...
Sunday, February 05, 2023

Family member not getting iCloud+ family subscription for 2TB storage - "Use Family Storage" in Settings (Family Sharing)

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A family member was seeing only the default 5GB of storage. I prepared to the usual fixes like restart phone, upgrade iOS, leave and restore...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Apple Music subscriptions stop working when I changed my Media & Purchases Apple ID

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Apple digital rights management (DRM, FairPlay in this case) is very complex, particularly when one adds Family Sharing or has an atypical A...
Sunday, May 15, 2022

iMessage not synchronizing - your store ID matters too

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Based on some issues I've seen with my daughter's devices I think that Apple Message sync will only work when both Apple ID for &quo...

How to leave Google Apps / G Suite / Google Workspace

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UPDATE : As of early May 2022 Google has relented and will allow continued personal use of legacy G Suite domains . You need to login to you...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Universal Clipboard (Handoff, Continuity) not working - Mojave and Monterey, regenerating the authentication token/password

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 Recently I've had two issues: Mojave Universal Clipboard stopped working between Mojave and iOS 15.4.1 Mojave notes iCloud synced but a...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

When iCloud Keychain stops working (No more Safari passwords) - Mojave

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I'm buying tickets for an event and suddenly there's no password autocomplete in Mojave Safari. Safari Preferences Passwords shows 3...
Sunday, March 06, 2022

What happens when you have an Apple ID without an email address and you change it? (And much more about Apple ID hell.)

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I'll provide some back story below, but it's tedious and a bit ranty so I'll put the most useful stuff up front. For *reasons* (...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Family sharing screen time bug: a fix for ghost apps

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I'm happy to say I actually fixed a bug in the buggiest apple product ever - family sharing screen time. The "always allowed" ...
Sunday, July 25, 2021

Getting photos from iPhone (iCloud) Photos.app to Lightroom, Aperture and other non-Photos products

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(Original 1/31/2021, updated 7/25/2021) Apple's approach to photography is to keep everything in iCloud and to view or edit the images f...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Unable to update date of birth associated with an Apple ID: "... could not be changed because of a server error"

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You can't change the date of birth or family relationship of an Apple ID with a calculated age of less than 13 years old. Otherwise it&#...
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Sunday, September 27, 2020

iCloud backup and my lost authenticator codes

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When my local Apple store tech was unable to remove the battery from my iPhone 8 they gave me a new device -- which was SIM locked to AT&...
Saturday, January 04, 2020

Apple's Family: The many surprises of creating an Apple ID with age 13 or under

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(You can skip the rant to get to the tech details) <rant>I frequently berate Apple for the radioactive-feces-infested-dumpster-fire t...
Sunday, December 01, 2019

How to create a file system reference to an iCloud Note

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My daughter wanted us to use a shared Apple Note for trip planning. That's fine, but I wanted a way to reference it from the macOS folde...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Getting Emily's iCloud photos -- you can multi-select in Photos.web (again)

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As recently as 2018, Apple had stopped supporting multi-select in iCloud Photos.web . It was really annoying. Today it works. I don’t know ...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Screen Time old device bug: Dev used device ID as key, forgot Apple ID

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There’s a well known old-device bug with Screen Time. Once you’ve setup up Screen Time for a child’s device it will always show up under the...

Two new discoveries in iOS Screen Time (parental controls): Age 13 and Apple ID incompatible with Screen Time

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A reputable Twitter source recently wrote that “Screen Time” was "a rush job". It feels that way. As part of a book project I’ve ...