I am trying to test the iCloud sync functionality of my app between a (real) device and the simulator, however I can’t seem to log into iCloud. When I go to Settings->iCloud and enter my account details, it just gets stuck on ‘Verifying’. However if I enter incorrect details, it brings up the invalid password … Read more
So, it finally happened. The worst case scenario for any independent iPhone developer occurred. Several users are reporting complete data loss after upgrading my app. iCloud Core Data sync is not working. My users are using this app partially to run their businesses. This is a truly catastrophic failure. The only iCloud related thing I … Read more
I accidentally created a new container in CloudKit, and it is really annoying that it comes up when I open dashboard. Any suggestion how to delete? On developer.apple.com I don’t see a delete button for containers. Answer Apple’s iOS CloudKit documentation: Enable iCloud and Select CloudKit Important: When you select CloudKit, Xcode creates a default … Read more
I am testing my app that uses iCloud. Sometimes, when I fire up the app I get the following warning in the console: GEOResourceManifestServerRemoteProxy: Lost connection to geod Once I get this warning I don’t seem to get any data from iCloud. I have tried searching this issue, but have found very little information on … Read more
CoreData Entity “A” has a one-to-many relationship to a collection of CoreData Entries “B”, using a Cascade delete rule. In an iCloud environment, while device 1 shows a detail view of one of the “B” entries, device 2 deletes the “A” entry. When the NSPersistentStoreDidImportUbiquitousContentChangesNotification notification is received in device 1, its App Delegate calls … Read more
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I am in the early stages of creating an app where I would like to save, sync and backup data. The app will not store any files just data in a database. It is going to be iOS 8 and up so I am able to use CloudKit. I did some research and still not … Read more
I’ve noticed that 3rd party cloud providers are not what I consider to be first-class citizens. For example, I can’t specify a Dropbox folder as the Safari download folder. Nor can I link a folder from Dropbox into one of the text editor apps ( Both of these I can do with iCloud Drive. Is … Read more
I use the open source borg backup tool to make a daily backup of my Documents folder which is also on iCloud drive. I use a LaunchAgent stored in my local library directory to execute a bash script which takes care of the backup. The script also does a backup of another folder which is … Read more
I have migrated my 200 gigabyte Photos library to iCloud on my Mac. Works very well. I then created a new, empty library on the Mac and let Photos copy the whole iCloud contents locally on the Mac. Now I need the space locally, so I would like Photos to undo the local copying only … Read more
