tarzic t1_jacmvv5 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:04 PM

I have an aunt who lost irreplacable data (thousands of photos from once in a lifetime events going back years) because she had a phone failure and was forced to restore the firmware. When she went to restore from the backup and restore the photo library to the device, she found that the blank device had backed up to the cloud and superceded the full backup from before the problem, and that 100% of the data was gone, both the photos and the backup. Genius bar told her there was nothing apple could do. Reinforced my belief that local backup is the only way

CaffeineDose OP t1_jacrxfl wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:41 PM

I certainly agree that local backup is the way to go, I lost reminders twice and notes once. I’m glad I don’t use iCloud for images it’s way to risky to be honest. Imagine years of collection disappear in seconds. There is NO warning ⛔️ you do it accidentally and the only way to realize you made a mistake is after it happens. They don’t tell you “your data will disappear” and no one can restore them, apple support makes it worse “in my case”