| Not that it's any excuse, but Apple does something similar by saving your photos to iCloud and deleting them from your local storage without telling you. I have seen the following scenario play out twice already: - The free iCloud tier runs out of storage because of the photo backups - Apple spams the user with warning notifications and emails and incentives to upgrade - User sees that nonsense and decides they don't really need iCloud backups (sometimes they didn't even know it was on) and turn it off - But oops, turns out iOS had "helpfully" removed the original photos from the local device to "save space", and now the photos are inaccessible - User tries to turn iCloud back on to access their photos but iOS now refuses to do it because the account is out of storage space (but don't worry, you can still upgrade to a paid plan!) - The photos are now held hostage by Apple You can access the photos from the iCloud website, but the download interface is clunky because it is not made for mass exports. And in this age of smartphones and apps, how many people know this is even an option? When this happened to an elderly family member of mine, it was only sheer luck that he had his iCloud password written down somewhere and I was able to rescue his photos from Apple's jaws. |
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