The worst part is even if you disable automatic backups, which you should, the app will nevertheless force the creation of a backup every day at 2am. And keep 7 days worth of backups at a time. Of every single thing it can gets its hands on. The amount of storage and processing that globally occurs daily due to this, that people neither want nor need, is probably jaw dropping.
Many non-tech people I know that are not aware of this have just come to terms with the fact that phone storage just runs out quicker than it did before, and old phones just lag at 2am for mysterious reasons.
Automatic backups do not include any images or videos. They remain just unencrypted.
> Many non-tech people I know that are not aware of this have just come to terms with the fact that phone storage just runs out quicker than it did before, and old phones just lag at 2am for mysterious reasons.
Non-tech people get pissed when one smiley message is lost. So for all non-hn people automatic backups are a boon. I know this as we run a free repair-cafe - and help people migrate data from old phones.
Not to mention that the solution to not uploading over cellular (on iOS at least) reads:
> To avoid excessive data charges, connect your phone to Wi-Fi or disable cellular data for iCloud. iPhone Settings > Cellular > iCloud Drive > OFF.
Like I have to be inconvenienced when I simply want to grab a pdf from iCloud, just to avoid having a few GB of my data cap used if I happen to be out at 2am.
Many non-tech people I know that are not aware of this have just come to terms with the fact that phone storage just runs out quicker than it did before, and old phones just lag at 2am for mysterious reasons.