{"id":24772,"date":"2019-03-28T16:26:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24772"},"modified":"2019-03-28T16:26:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:26:22","slug":"icloud-deletion-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/28\/icloud-deletion-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"iCloud Deletion Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/apples-icloud-is-useless-due-to-bugs\/\">Corbin Dunn<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nibroc\/status\/1111047493905600512\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/apples-icloud-is-useless-due-to-bugs\/\"><p>I turned off my backup to iCloud and deleted the backups. Well,&nbsp;<strong>you can&rsquo;t delete them!<\/strong> They just&nbsp;<strong>would not<\/strong> disappear, and I kept seeing 19+ GB of space consumed[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, when your iCloud storage is full you can&rsquo;t receive any emails to your @me email address, which is what is associated with my bug reporter account.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I never used iCloud photos, but for some reason I had a lot of photo storage consumed. I turned off my Photo Stream, and this dropped the 8.6 GB that it consumed. I was surprised, because this actually worked!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&rsquo;s weird; I thought Photo Stream wasn&rsquo;t supposed to count towards your storage quota.<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/apples-icloud-is-useless-due-to-bugs\/\"><p>But no, I still have too much space consumed, and it was in &ldquo;Documents and Data&rdquo;. It looked mainly like Keynote documents were taking up too much space. I moved <em>all my files<\/em> out of iCloud on my desktop; this actually doesn&rsquo;t work. You should see the move on one computer and deletes on other computers, but I never would see the files gone on any other systems (iOS or macOS). I had to delete them on <em>each system<\/em> using iCloud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/the-sad-state-of-logging-bugs-for-apple\/\">The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/29\/the-missing-icloud-storage-bump\/\">The Missing iCloud Storage Bump<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corbin Dunn (tweet): I turned off my backup to iCloud and deleted the backups. Well,&nbsp;you can&rsquo;t delete them! They just&nbsp;would not disappear, and I kept seeing 19+ GB of space consumed[&#8230;] [&#8230;] Ironically, when your iCloud storage is full you can&rsquo;t receive any emails to your @me email address, which is what is associated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-03-28T20:26:24Z","apple_news_api_id":"d0408384-a301-43da-babf-7aa2d7f7e5e0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-03-28T20:26:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A0ECDhKMBQ9q6v3qi1_fl4A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,131,150,16,913,31,1610,30,1609,450],"class_list":["post-24772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-bug","tag-email","tag-icloud","tag-icloud-drive","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-14","tag-photostream"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24773,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24772\/revisions\/24773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}