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by cjk2 788 days ago
Agreed. I'm not so sure that some of the iCloud data loss bugs people talk about are actual data loss bugs. I've had a few issues over the years.

Firstly I spent weeks chasing down what I thought was a data loss bug in iCloud. After much effort I managed to reproduce it. Turned out it was an issue with TeXshop rather than iCloud.

Secondly, the one time I had a photo lost, it wasn't lost. I just couldn't find it in the 12000 photos I had. It wasn't where I'd left it.

The third one was a data loss bug, was reproducible, was reported to Apple and was fixed. This was due to how Numbers handles three devices and how it decides the winner of a conflicting change and was an edge case as number 1 awkward customer.

YMMV but user testimony may be as reliable as eyewitness reports.
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md_ 788 days ago
To be clear, I don't work for Apple. :) And I'm not discounting that there are usage patterns that might lead to persistent bad experiences (like your example with Numbers).

But the implication that Keychain just kind of forgets saved Passkeys once in a while seems alarmist and probably unfounded.

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cjk2 788 days ago
Yeah exactly. It is possible that some expiry or provider specific bug may lead to revocation? I am not sure how it works entirely.

I will say that there are some very well known backup and restore issues with keychain however so I keep anything critical in MacPass as the primary copy.

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