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gdbjr t1_jacf7j8 wrote

Reply to comment by CaffeineDose in iPhone users who uses iCloud, have you ever accidentally deleted your data such as contacts, reminders, notes, calendar or any data linked to iCloud? by CaffeineDose

The best way is just to never touch it. Leave iCloud on all the time and let it do its thing.

Second stop thinking that your data is in iCloud. It really isn’t. It is on your devices and iCloud is just syncing that data across your devices. So my MacBook is the keeper of that data. So if for some very odd and unusual reason you want to turn of syncing data you need to make sure that your primary device has master copy then you can turn of syncing. On all your devices.

Most iCloud data will ask you if you want to kelp the local copy before turning it off, so just make sure that device has all the updated data first.

Then should you smartly decided to reenable iCloud you start turning it back on from your primary device. It will sync up then you enable iCloud on your other devices. I have done this a few times switching between apple and google and I have never lost anything.

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CaffeineDose OP t1_jaclza7 wrote

Sounds great but the question is how to update the data in iCloud to make sure when I merge local data with iCloud it reflects the most updated data not to bring older data. My main issue is that I enabled iCloud and then it replaced current with old and so deleted the current data because iCloud wasn’t updated.

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gdbjr t1_jae8ew7 wrote

If it were me I would first make sure iCloud sync is turned off from every device I have. I would also make backups of my data where possible.

Second I would pick a single local device and make sure it has all the updated info. (How you do that I don’t have good suggestions)

Next I would log into iCloud.com and delete anything up there so there won’t be a merge, just a fresh sync

Finally I would enable iCloud on my primary device and once I confirmed it was working I would then enable iCloud on any other devices.

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CaffeineDose OP t1_jaeblk0 wrote

Will turning off iCloud delete local data?

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gdbjr t1_jaecb3k wrote

If you disable lets say disable calendar from using iCloud, you will get a pop up with options:

Keep Data on iPhone

Detele Data on iPhone

That should be the same for the other apple apps like contact and reminders.

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