[Cryptography] the consequences of changing the password on your AppleID

[Tom Mitchell]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> wrote:

>
> > so now we discover that if you have an unchanged password on your
> > AppleID and you log on from a known network (known to the phone)
> > the phone will then automatically back up to the Apple Cloud
> > and that backup will contain the current content of the phone.
> Well ... yes.  That's the whole point of automatic backup.
>
> Reports are that backups from the device were "sporadic" and that the last
> one was made some time in October.  There was some speculation - given the
> long gap - that backups had actually been turned off.  My own guess - give
> the "sporadic" nature of the backups - is that *automatic* backups were
> never turned on.  Rather, they were done manually every once in a while (in
> which case this approach wouldn't work anyway.


I have an older iPhone and it announces that it has been +13 weeks since it
has
been backed up.   I have tried multiple times to let it cloud backup but it
fails
for reasons I cannot discover and fix.
Since I only use it for podcasts and pandora a backup is cool by me and
making the
silly error vanish is on my make it go away dam it list.

The lack of a backup may be normal. i.e. an unfixed bug.


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  T o m    M i t c h e l l
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