Again, I know there are those times like you say, an incrypted backup, etc.
when USB would be necessary. I wasn't saying throw the baby totally out with
the bathwater. I more just meant is it something where most things, you really
don't need to plug it in via USB anymore.
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From: michael babcock
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2016 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: Here's an interesting question for all iOS users
Secure encrypted backups
e.g. if you don’t want to have to enter your passwords into apps again.
correct me if i’m wrong, however iCloud backups aren’t keeping all passwords
where as a local backup can.
also, what happens if iCloud was hacked, or unavailable, or is something
apple wanted to shut down.
:)
I personally keep local copies of my backups just in case.
once per week.
hth
On Nov 7, 2016, at 3:11 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland
<clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote:
Let me start by saying two things:
1. I realize entirely that my question is very subjective.
2. I further understand that there really is no right or wrong answer to
this. I'm asking more just out of curiosity.
So, here tgos.
So... now adays with so much stuff regarding Apple happening in the cloud,
I often ask myself: is there really much reason now adays to sync your iOS
device with ITunes on the mac? How many of you really don't connect your phone
to the mac unless it's absolutely necessary?
I mean, think about it like this. You get a wallblock charger with all new
iPhones, (key word, new,) as well as iPads. OK, for iPods, I could see it, as I
don't think, unless things have changed which is highly probabal, they came
with the apple block transformer. But either way, there really isn't much need
anymore with Apple Music to sync music across your device, as music can
automatically come down to your device anyway over the ICloud Music library,
and even if you don't! have Apple Music, you still have the ICloud music
library, so if it's something where you rip a CD we'll just say, it would still
upload it to your library, provided you have things set correctly, thereby
making it appear on your iOS device.
You really don't need to use ITunes to sync photos and videos anymore, as
you have the iCloud photo library. All purchased and rented movies as well as
TV shows are in the cloud, same goes with books from IBooks.
You can do iOS updates usually over the air, (OTA,) so there really isn't a
need to do them from ITunes.
OK, I get that there are those few instances like putting the device into
DFU mode and installing betas, or downgrading from betas. I also get that
sometimes, you may want to download the whole iOS OS and restore. I also get
you may want to make occasional backups locally to ITunes. But even that! you
can do ICloud backups. I mean, pretty much everything is going to the cloud.
You even now can set it so that if you download an app or song/album from
the ITunes store on the mac, it'll automatically download to your device
seemlessly.
I won't go into the details, but a friend of mine is having an issue where
things are downloading to his device automatically that he didn't suspect would
automatically download. Through talking to him, it's just kind a got me
thinking a bit on a totally unrelated note how necessary this really is. I
mean, for the most part, do you really have to use USB aside from those very
rare occasions, or would I be doing myself a favor to free up that USB port for
something more valuable like a flash drive, or even better, maybe my braille
display, etc.
Chris.
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