You can still do things such as changing your Apple ID password. Then if someone gets into your phone, they won't know that new one and won't be able to use, for instance, your Mail to send messages.
Huh? This only makes sense if you use your iCloud mail as your primary mail account. Most people don’t.
However, an iCloud backup isn't complete. It's intended to safeguard what Apple thinks is your most important data, such as your photos, your account settings, documents and so on. It does not backup your apps. The logic is that you can always get those again from the App Store but sometimes you can't and always you have to re-enter your login details. So backup via iTunes. Plug your iPhone into your Mac, tell iTunes to make an encrypted backup, and let it take all the time it likes to copy everything over.
iTunes does not back up apps.
I believe you're mistaken about your first point.
And on the second, at no point did William say that it did. This said, if you still have the .ipa file, you can drag it to the device in iTunes, and it will still restore the app to the device.
Why would Mail which only accesses my IMAP account on my web server ask for my Apple ID password?
The second point was strongly implied by asking about apps not getting backed up, followed by “so, backup via iTunes”. / shrug
Not that part, the part about the iCloud mail as your primary e-mail address.
Wiping your iPhone is so ridiculously easy that there's very little excuse for not doing so. The girl mentioned one of the few excuses - a totally dead phone. those cases are fairly rare; usually you can at last power on or backup with iTunes (although it sounds like that will go away with iOS 12.) The big takeaway here is to have a passcode and have your phone set to wipe after too may attempts. If you do this, you still should be safe, even if someone should resurrect your dead phone later on.
Of course, the amount you get for a dead phone is generally so small I would argue it's not worth the risk.
You can still do things such as changing your Apple ID password. Then if someone gets into your phone, they won't know that new one and won't be able to use, for instance, your Mail to send messages.
Huh? This only makes sense if you use your iCloud mail as your primary mail account. Most people don’t.
However, an iCloud backup isn't complete. It's intended to safeguard what Apple thinks is your most important data, such as your photos, your account settings, documents and so on. It does not backup your apps. The logic is that you can always get those again from the App Store but sometimes you can't and always you have to re-enter your login details. So backup via iTunes. Plug your iPhone into your Mac, tell iTunes to make an encrypted backup, and let it take all the time it likes to copy everything over.
iTunes does not back up apps.
I believe you're mistaken about your first point.
And on the second, at no point did William say that it did. This said, if you still have the .ipa file, you can drag it to the device in iTunes, and it will still restore the app to the device.
OK. But I wonder if I’m missing something? I routinely back up my iOS devices to iTunes (on my Mac). When I replace an iPhone or iPad with a new one, I restore the new device using the iTunes backup. This not only loads all the apps to my new iOS device but usually copies over saved game data as well.
iOS backup to iTunes should have an option to backup to external USB drives, like TimeMachine backup. Why Apple refuses to do it after years of request?
You can still do things such as changing your Apple ID password. Then if someone gets into your phone, they won't know that new one and won't be able to use, for instance, your Mail to send messages.
Huh? This only makes sense if you use your iCloud mail as your primary mail account. Most people don’t.
However, an iCloud backup isn't complete. It's intended to safeguard what Apple thinks is your most important data, such as your photos, your account settings, documents and so on. It does not backup your apps. The logic is that you can always get those again from the App Store but sometimes you can't and always you have to re-enter your login details. So backup via iTunes. Plug your iPhone into your Mac, tell iTunes to make an encrypted backup, and let it take all the time it likes to copy everything over.
iTunes does not back up apps.
I believe you're mistaken about your first point.
And on the second, at no point did William say that it did. This said, if you still have the .ipa file, you can drag it to the device in iTunes, and it will still restore the app to the device.
Why would Mail which only accesses my IMAP account on my web server ask for my Apple ID password?
The second point was strongly implied by asking about apps not getting backed up, followed by “so, backup via iTunes”. / shrug
Not that part, the part about the iCloud mail as your primary e-mail address.
I'm not sure what you mean. What I'm saying is the only thing preventing someone from using Mail if you change your Apple ID password is if you only use an iCloud mail account, as that's intrinsically connected to your Apple ID password. Any other mail account from any other provider in Mail would not be tied to your Apple ID password, and thus could be used to send messages. And for the second point regarding banking/etc password resets, while I don't know the actual statistics here, I assume the vast majority of people do not use their iCloud email account as their primary email that they'd receive password resets on, versus say Gmail for example (or in my case, my own domain hosted on my web server). Not to mention people using the Gmail app or any other mail client besides Apple's Mail.
I'm not trying to be pedantic, it's just false to claim that changing an Apple ID password prevents a user that has access to your iPhone from sending messages in Mail.
iOS backup to iTunes should have an option to backup to external USB drives, like TimeMachine backup. Why Apple refuses to do it after years of request?
I don't get the boat sailor humor. I'm thinking it must be a nuke boat thing. Maybe too many fast attack patrols? Boomers seldom get as much sea time, so maybe less weirdness.
The ', Son' thing reminds me of Foghorn Leghorn. Or maybe it's a Sea Dad thing talking to a Son?
I don't get the boat sailor humor. I'm thinking it must be a nuke boat thing. Maybe too many fast attack patrols? Boomers seldom get as much sea time, so maybe less weirdness.
The ', Son' thing reminds me of Foghorn Leghorn. Or maybe it's a Sea Dad thing talking to a Son?
Anyway, as a diesel boat sailor, I didn't get it.
That’s the problem with nuclear power. A lot of sea time, even when not actively deployed.
Less war fighting, more paperwork. Especially in engineering.
Sad, but not surprising that some people need to be told to do this. However, AI is not really where this info needs to be published. Maybe you can sell the article to something else more mainstream where non-techie folks might see it.
Sad, but not surprising that some people need to be told to do this. However, AI is not really where this info needs to be published. Maybe you can sell the article to something else more mainstream where non-techie folks might see it.
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You can still do things such as changing your Apple ID password. Then if someone gets into your phone, they won't know that new one and won't be able to use, for instance, your Mail to send messages.
Huh? This only makes sense if you use your iCloud mail as your primary mail account. Most people don’t.
However, an iCloud backup isn't complete. It's intended to safeguard what Apple thinks is your most important data, such as your photos, your account settings, documents and so on. It does not backup your apps. The logic is that you can always get those again from the App Store but sometimes you can't and always you have to re-enter your login details. So backup via iTunes. Plug your iPhone into your Mac, tell iTunes to make an encrypted backup, and let it take all the time it likes to copy everything over.
iTunes does not back up apps.
More to the point, both forms of backup keep a record of what apps you had installed and how you had them arranged. It used to be that an iTunes backup would reinstall locally-saved apps at the conclusion of loading the backup, but of course that convenience was neutered by Apple some time ago. So today, both backup methodologies deliver the same results with respect to apps, you get placeholders installed and the apps are then re-downloaded wirelessly.
My iPhone 6 just conked out on me last week. I thought it was just the backlight but it was not recognized by iTunes or iPhoto after being plugged in to my iMac. under iCloud Devices it was listed but "offline" so I tried to enable Remote Wipe if/when it decided to connect to the Internet. less than 24 hours later I got email notifications that all the accounts in the Wallet had been removed by the wipe I had initiated.
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Not that part, the part about the iCloud mail as your primary e-mail address.
Of course, the amount you get for a dead phone is generally so small I would argue it's not worth the risk.
Hammer time. It’s the only way to be sure ; )
Rule #2
If you don’t want to be creeped out don’t use Facebook.
I routinely back up my iOS devices to iTunes (on my Mac).
When I replace an iPhone or iPad with a new one, I restore the new device using the iTunes backup.
This not only loads all the apps to my new iOS device but usually copies over saved game data as well.
I'm not trying to be pedantic, it's just false to claim that changing an Apple ID password prevents a user that has access to your iPhone from sending messages in Mail.
Nobody's stopping you:
https://www.imore.com/how-move-your-iphone-or-ipad-backups-external-hard-drive
I will admit though, that taking out the hammer and hitting my very old, very dead iphone 5 was pretty hard. Like shooting old yella.
The ', Son' thing reminds me of Foghorn Leghorn. Or maybe it's a Sea Dad thing talking to a Son?
Anyway, as a diesel boat sailor, I didn't get it.
Less war fighting, more paperwork. Especially in engineering.
You're not wrong, though.
I thought it was just the backlight but it was not recognized by iTunes or iPhoto after being plugged in to my iMac.
under iCloud Devices it was listed but "offline" so I tried to enable Remote Wipe if/when it decided to connect to the Internet.
less than 24 hours later I got email notifications that all the accounts in the Wallet had been removed by the wipe I had initiated.
I'll still smash it to bits though.