thanks for the reply. You're right, I can set contacts to 'on' under the icloud section in settings, but I can't see how that enables me to see my 'lost' contacts and get them back.
I upgraded my iPhone 4 and iPad 2 which went generally ok except that one of my apps that I use for "scanning" receipts (Genius Scan+) lost all it's data which is a major pain - some of the files I had uploaded to Dropbox but not all of them so I am unsure about what is actually missing. I think I will drop the developer a line and see if others had the same problem.
You guys are scaring me to the point that I have not upgraded my 2nd gen iPod Touch from version 4.2.1 to 5.
Is there any was during the upgrade you can stop your data and/or Apps going to the "iCloud" thing? I have a lot of data/pictures that I can not afford to lose. I have backed up my Notes by emailing them but there is no option in Contacts to email them all at once, only one at a time.
Some of the data is not the type of date I want going anywhere but my own equipment.
I suspect you've maybe missed the point of the "iCloud thingy" Henry. IF you wish to use it, you can - for whatever data you wish. It's configurable and, by default, off. If you try and stop the update at any point you may find yourself to be in the same boat as other users who bricked their devices unnecessarily. Let it go though - it will work. During the update, you don't have the opportunity to stop anything and neither should you. At the end of the process you are asked what you wish to do with your data.
Personally, I find the notion of iCloud to be brilliant. It will give me the ability to access presentation documents that I need, when I don't necessarily have the device they're stored on with me. Same for contacts in my case. They're not secret and my world won't collapse because they're in the cloud - but that's me.
Personally I had no problem with the update at all, went like a breeze. I configured icloud for contacts, notes and calendar couldn't of been more simple.
Some of the data is not the type of data I want going anywhere but my own equipment.
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Originally Posted by Omaroo
I suspect you've maybe missed the point of the "iCloud thingy" Henry. IF you wish to use it, you can - for whatever data you wish. It's configurable and, by default, off. If you try and stop the update at any point you may find yourself to be in the same boat as other users who bricked their devices unnecessarily. Let it go though - it will work. During the update, you don't have the opportunity to stop anything and neither should you. At the end of the process you are asked what you wish to do with your data.
Personally, I find the notion of iCloud to be brilliant. It will give me the ability to access presentation documents that I need, when I don't necessarily have the device they're stored on with me. Same for contacts in my case. They're not secret and my world won't collapse because they're in the cloud - but that's me.
The type of data I'm referring to are bank account (and credit card) numbers (not PINs) and the balance of these accounts as well as passwords for other things as well as other data I don't want getting into other hands. I need this data to get by every day.
Anyway, I've got an early start in the morning. I leave Horsham for Melbourne a 6:00am to buy an iPad 2.
when I upgraded my iPhone4 today all my downloaded Audible books in my Audible app stopped working and produced an error that suggested that they had to be downloaded again... otherwise everything else works fine.
