TravisV

Nothing has really changed. The seven year itch (bitch) as I refer to it. Any thing over seven years old. Mac, iPhone or iPad are SOL for updates.

This brings up another disturbing scenario with Apple. If the photo's that you deleted years ago reappear what else is Apple storing on their servers that you have deleted from Data Recovery in iCloud. ARE THEY REALLY DELETED or are they just hidden like files hidden on a mac with a ".".. THe question now is can Apple be believed when they say they can not read your FileVault Key that might be stored on their servers and that in Systems Setting in Sonoma and is Advance System Protection, protection at all!

I have tried to avoid increasing my storage with Apple for that reason. Their hardware is pricey enough so I back most of my stuff up locally rather than have it stored on Apple servers since as we have seen not all are created equal. Dropbox comes to mind when I think about that, getting hacked twice in two years. I do have stuff on Apple and OneDrive but not stuff I would trust being accessed by Big Brother.

Jus one huge problem that Find My has and I discovered yesterday.

If you have your Mac hardwired (and don't use WiFi) and have secondary router hardwired to your ISP router that you have the rest of your peripherals wifi'ed intyo the secondary your Find My doesn't work (at least on my configuration).

I found back in 2022 on a old Mac from 2014 that my Bluetooth stopped working which I believe you need to have Airdrop work. What I reverted to was email like you said in you article as well as Notes, but just mostly for text. I found out recently that batteries in the old 2014 batteries had expanded to the point to where it could have exploded according to the computer tech and he figured it was the culprit for the Bluetooth not working.