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<blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 6193195" data-attributes="member: 31216">Regarding using the iCloud: I admit I'm terribly under-learned on the subject. But on the face of it, I don't want my iPhone data &quot;out there somewhere&quot; -- stored anywhere but on my phone and/or maybe on my personal home computer. When the iCloud concept was first offered, I did some research on it to find out what it is. Seemed to be some kind of handwavey &quot;thing&quot; out there. I didn't and currently still don't understand it. Feel free to enlighten me here.When I gave my wife an iPhone 4S about a year after I got mine (4), I set her up on the iCloud. Somewhere along the way, my phone got iClouded, probably during an iOS update. Suddenly the tons of apps she kept installing would pop up on my phone whenever I came home from work. At one point, an app &quot;of questionable taste&quot; that I installed for about five minutes (then deleted), popped up on her iPhone. So I turned off the iCloud for my phone. I simply don't want data to automatically transfer between every device in my home.But: my phone works just fine, just as it is, right now. I have no problems with any aspect of my phone at all, except sometimes when I update something -- the iOS or some apps. The only times I've experienced any problems have come due to updating -- the iOS or some apps. I've had apps stop working, lose data (sometimes that I've paid for), or just work in less enjoyable/useful ways.Bullgrit</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bullgrit, post: 6193195, member: 31216"] Regarding using the iCloud: I admit I'm terribly under-learned on the subject. But on the face of it, I don't want my iPhone data "out there somewhere" -- stored anywhere but on my phone and/or maybe on my personal home computer. When the iCloud concept was first offered, I did some research on it to find out what it is. Seemed to be some kind of handwavey "thing" out there. I didn't and currently still don't understand it. Feel free to enlighten me here. When I gave my wife an iPhone 4S about a year after I got mine (4), I set her up on the iCloud. Somewhere along the way, my phone got iClouded, probably during an iOS update. Suddenly the tons of apps she kept installing would pop up on my phone whenever I came home from work. At one point, an app "of questionable taste" that I installed for about five minutes (then deleted), popped up on her iPhone. So I turned off the iCloud for my phone. I simply don't want data to automatically transfer between every device in my home. But: my phone works just fine, just as it is, right now. I have no problems with any aspect of my phone at all, except sometimes when I update something -- the iOS or some apps. The only times I've experienced any problems have come due to updating -- the iOS or some apps. I've had apps stop working, lose data (sometimes that I've paid for), or just work in less enjoyable/useful ways. Bullgrit [/QUOTE]

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