Turning off iCloud
Went to the Genius Bar to try to turn off iCloud. Since I started this program it has created all kinds of problems--problems far worse than any benefit it would provide. The guy there convinced me that it was just me. OK, but I'm the USER. Anyway, he said it was easy to turn it off anytime I want and that the conflict with my old Mobile Me would not recur. I asked him what about the problem of iCloud taking all my data away if I tried to turn it off? He said, you just choose to keep the data on the local machine. Well, once home, iCloud AGAIN began to be problematic. I went to Contacts and it offered me the choice of turning off iCloud but keeping the data. I chose to keep the data. But when I went to Calendar to turn off the data, it said that it would remove all the content if I did so. Any solutions? Also, the data on my iPhone's calendar is now gone. I guess I have to go throug the Genius training program to make this easy, right?
Unfortunately, signing out of iCloud is more easily said than done. I can sign out of Contacts, which offers the choice between leaving the info on my local app or not, but I cannot sign out of Calendar without it taking away my info. So, is what you're suggesting that I sign back into iCloud, get all the info, export it to my hard drive, sign out of iCloud and then import the data locally?
If so, I hope it works.
Am I wrong to think that iCloud a) doesn't stop grabbing data off of my computer hard drive; b) burns power on my iPhone?
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My Outlook/iCloud calendar invites to others appear to work on my end and sync with my PC and mobile, but when other people "accept" the invite, it will not populate/add in to their calendar. How can I fix this without turning off iCloud?
I am at a new office that uses Outlook (not Outlook Exchange) which does not sync with my mobile... I just got iCloud set up on my PC to sync my contacts, calendar, reminders, etc... The sync worked (not without flaws, but the other issues seem solvable... I think), so that i can now see all my appointments on both my phone and on my PC. The problem I am having is that iCloud moved all of my calendar items from Outlook into iCloud calendar and now when I send out meeting/calendar invites the recipients may accept them, but the meeting does not get added to their calendar. This is a huge problem and may mean that i need to turn off iCloud.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks!I am replying to my own post here as I seem to have fixed the problem.
I do have some calendars that are shared. Some of those are shared with users who have time zone support turned on. So i activated time zone support on my iphone, then deleted my icloud subscription. I then signed in to icloud again and voila... problem solved.
It is a weird one as the other calendar views were always fine and when you opened an event that appeared in the wrong day (on list view), the correct date of the event was shown in the information...
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TS3988 How do I turn off iCloud and go back to the way I had it before?
I am unhappy with iCloud for a number of reasons. I want to go back to backing up my music to an external HD, storing music on my devices, and turn off iCloud.
How do I turn off iCloud? I have iTunes on a PC.
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I simply want to know how to turn off iCloud* without losing my contacts
Call me old fashioned, but I really do NOT want to use iCloud EXCEPT for ONE THING*: and that's to find my phone, ipad or laptop if it goes missing.
Having said that, I have figured out how to turn off icloud on my ipad and my iphone (I am not using the phone as a phone, just as a glorified ipod) while keeping the "find my ipad/iphone" function active, BUT
I can't quite figure out how to do it on my laptop.
I seem to have done it already for photos, and for the calendar, (I know this from checking iCloud to see what it's got) but just cannot figure out how to turn it off for contacts.
And YES, I've backed up all of those things at LEAST 3 different ways, I just don't want the Cloud to be one of them.
So can anyone tell me how to turn off contacts in the cloud without it also magically deleting them in my laptop? (I had it happen on the ipad, that's why I'm worried.)
Thank you for understanding-I'm older and this stuff just keeps getting more complicated and I'm a simple person. I'll back up my own stuff!If you are refering to documents such as Pages and Numbers files....
The only way around this is to "save as" you icloud documents using the associated app to a local folder on your mac. Then turn off icloud.
Of course, when you sign off of icloud, the docs are removed from the mac, but remain in icloud. In the future when you sign back in, the documents are available to you again.
Oh, and the icloud documents are also stored locally in ...
~/Library/Mobile Documents
Note that Library in the user's home folder is now hidden, so you'll have to set Finder to view hidden files.
The Mobile Documents folder has subfolder where copies of the doc/data files are stored.
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Ever since the IOS8.2 update my iPad keeps popping up with 'Sign into Icloud' if I sign it it still pops up
i I have changed my pw twice and it's still happeninf
I even tried to turn off iCloud
i have iPad 3rd gen
does anyone have a solution?
thanksI am having same issue on my iPhone 5s. Whenever i am trying login to iCloud from my device setting it's asking for apple id password & every time showing incorrect password verification failed but in fact the password is correct.
When trying to restore my iPhone from my PC iTunes backup it's asking to turn off Find my iPhone from the device iCloud setting. When i am going to turn it off from device iCloud setting it's asking for apple id password then a notification showing "verification failed, the connection to iCloud timed out.
I never faced this on any other iOS version other than iOS 8/8.0.2
Very disappointing iOS -
I have taken off/turned off iCloud on my mac mini (OS 10.8) but when I send an email and use contacts , it will convert the non - iCloud email to an iCloud email automatically. Anyway to stop this automatic conversation?
Robert...
the iCloud webserver wont accept my password for a .mac login, nor will it allow me to change it
See if you can change your password > Apple - My Apple ID
If that doesn't help, launch iTunes on your computer.
From the iTunes menu bar click iTunes / Preferences then select the Advanced tab.
Click: Reset warnings and Reset cache
Click OK.
Restart your computer.
If that that doesn't help...
Moreover, when I try to go into my .mac account on the web,
Delete all apple cookies and empty your browser cache.
See if you can access your account at iCloud.com -
why are most of the apps (anything that has to search) on my iphone4 and ipad (1) running very slow (or not at all) since iOS5 update...esp google. Search seems to go quickly, but then when I try to open a link..nothing. I have turned off icloud.
I am having the same problem. Did turning off iCloud work? Did you just turn everything off or did you actually delete the account off your iPod?
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I lose my iphone but i turn off icloud how i can use ( find my phone ) or another way or software
i lose my iphone but i turn off icloud >> how i can use ( find my phone ) or another way or another sofware to find my iphone
please help meYou have to have iCloud enabled and Find My iPhone set to On on your iPhone in order to find it. If you're saying you turned this off before losing it I'm afraid you're out of luck.
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How do I turn off icloud on my iphone 4s? Can I still use Find My Phone?
How do I turn off icloud on my iphone 4s?
Can I still use Find My Phone?You cannot use Find My iPhone without iCloud.
If you want to sign off of your iCloud account on your iPhone, you go to Settings>iCloud, scroll to the bottom and sign out. It will ask for your password so it can turn off Find My iPhone before removing the iCloud account from your device.
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I turned off icloud on my calendar and it deleted my entire calendar. I did this because I wanted to add a sport site to auto add my daughters hockey schedule. For some reason it was not accepting this URL? Is there a way of getting my calendar back?
Perfect, that worked. But I still cannot get this certain URL to work. It gives me an error message 1. Any ideas on that?
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Can't turn off iCloud and F'd up my Calendar
I have an iPhone with my Work calendar Synced with my work computer (outlook Calendar). Also, I have iMac 27" i5 with my Home calendar (iCal). This has worked fine and separetly for the last 3years. My home calenders allow me to organise my life with payments and is very important. My work calendar, well that speaks for it's self.
I install iOS5 on iPhone and Lion on the iMac which unbekownence to me have iCloud syncing on and doing stuff that has totally corupted my iMac Home Calendar.
My home calendar has my work calander mixed in with my home calendar and reminders popup every few minutes that I have already dissmissed. They won't stop popping up. The same one over and over and they go back a month or more.
Additionally, when I try to add an event it sometimes puts it in very day instead of a monthly re-ocurring event and then it won't delete the event when I try to fix it.
I've tried to turn off iCloud, and it does all the right things and appears to turn off but then when I go back in it is on again.
The Work Calendar (Windows 7 Office 2010) doesn't show any symptoms and has kept working as it should on my work computer as on the iPhone. Neither appear to be effected
I've tried all the delete files and reinsralls but iCal seems to just get more confused. It renames calendars and is totally out of control to the point of no return.
I can't find any where which shows how to delete iCal and do a fresh install of iCal and not have iCloud sync. I have searched Google for months and months with no joy.
What I need is to stop iCloud and **** it off permently as it appears to be a problem for how I use my apps. I do not want to use iCloud for calander or anything just yet. I need to get my original .ics backup in iCal that I have and working on it's own and with out the cloud or syncing.
Help anyone ...
P.S. I have only one profile, Admin.
I've tried another profile and it replicates and operated worse than the Admin account with iCal.
Also I have time machine back to August 2011. I've tried all the Google fixes and none have workedHmmm!
Sorry for taking so long to get back. But the thing was none of the instruction where able to get the iCloud turned off. If anything it is for someone who moves between the Local and the iCloud than turnng off iCloud.
I want to turn off iCloud syncing in my System Preference and iCal. iCal is syncing with iCloud and I do not want that. My iPhone is syncing with iCloud and I don't want that either. I never enabled these options and had to find out where they were before I could even start trying to turning them off.
My iPads do not I’m unsure why
Is it possible to un-sync and turn off all iCloud activities on my iMac with Lion 10.7.3?
I think I made up a word (Un-Sync) to re-turn back to the original state before the first sync -
My iPhone 6plus will no longer connect to my Dodge UConnect system. Phone calls get a beep "phone call completed" message. Music will play though. Just can't make calls. Tried turning off iCloud and repairing but nothing works. It did work a few days
Hi Jpcbew,
The article linked below provides a lot of great information and troubleshooting tips that can help you resolve the issue with your iPhone 6 Plus connecting to you car stereo system.
Get help using your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with your car stereo - Apple Support
So long,
-Jason -
How do I turn off iCloud match in iTunes?
How do I turn off iCloud Match in iTunes:
Open iTunes and go to Store>Turn Off iTunes Match.
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How do I turn off iCloud Drive?
I don't like the idea of all my docs in the cloud. I want to stop the syncing and just keep the docs on my computer. However, when I try to turn off iCloud Drive it tells me that I'm going to be deleting everything from my Mac! How do I stop iCloud Drive but keep my files secure in my Mac?
The logic is that iCloud Drive is a hub for data shared among your devices, and the assumption is that if you delete something, you want it deleted. And practically, your file is treated as if the Drive copy is the only one. The Drive system may cache a copy on your device to allow easy, quick access, but the master copy is the one in the cloud. Delete the master copy and the cached copies have no "parent" and no way of maintaining any kind of sync.
It's similar to using a corporate network drive to get access to your files from anywhere. Delete a file without making a local copy and it's no longer accessible. -
Does anyone know how to turn off the pop-up iCloud log-in window on iPhone 5c. I have no desire to use iCloud. I have turned off iCloud in settings but that does not seem to deter the pesky little pop-up from continually asking me to log-in
ThanksPop up usually meant that icloud activation lock is still on on Apple servers. In order to deactivate you need to turn icloud back on by signing in and then sign out properly. For your sake I hope that you know the password.
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How do I turn off icloud if I don't want to use it
How do I turn off iCloud if I don't want it on my phone or on my computer
Hey Judywins50,
This article goes over how to disable specific parts of iCloud or even turning off iCloud completely on both your iPhone and computer:
iCloud: Change iCloud feature settings
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2613
Sincerely,
Delgadoh
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