I know most people forget to do this but if you turn off iCloud photos syncing aren’t the photos on your device still private and secure?
In other words, as long as you don’t send all your photos up to the cloud, Apple does not have the ability to look at them. They’re not remotely logging into your phone and looking at your photos on your phone. They are looking at copies of your photos that you sent to their iCloud servers.
If you don’t want that to happen turn off iCloud photo syncing. However, this will limit the number of photos you can store on your phone if you have a phone with a small storage capacity (16, 32 or 64 GB)
My user tip is to always buy the phone or iPad with the largest storage capacity you can afford. I have an iPad with 512 GB and I’m very happy because I can store as many downloaded movies and music onto it as I want to. The movie streaming service that I pay for allows me to temporary download entire movies which makes them much easier to watch as I can avoid buffering issues.
Having extra storage also allows me to do video screen recordings for any videos that I want to save to my iPad. This allows me to save YouTube videos permanently to my device even if they decide to censor or erase that video later. If I use YouTube’s download option, that video that I downloaded will be disabled once they censor it.
I’m in mainland China so I’m using a couple of Chinese App movie streaming services.
I’m assuming they’re blocked outside of China and even if they weren’t you would need to use Chinese payment systems and be able to reach Chinese to use them.
Most Chinese services are probably half the cost of Netflix. Given that they are full of a bunch of Chinese movies that I don’t wanna watch it’s not the greatest value in the world.
The best thing about them is that I don’t need a VPN and I can download an entire movie in about two minutes within mainland China.
aren’t the photos on your device still private and secure?
They're as secure as any device with hardware backdoors and a software ring 0 authorisation has. So long as Apple can update and install shit to your phone without you knowing, along with certain service providers, then you've no reason to assume anything is secure.
Up to now Apple has been pretty good about privacy. They’ve gone back-and-forth with the government over unlocking phones seized from so-called terrorists.
If Apple put in a feature where they could go into anyone’s phone anywhere and start remotely scanning the photos, videos, text messages, location history, notes or the web history on the phone itself, that opens them up to abuse from the NSA or the FBI.
Then these federal agencies would be knocking on Apple door and asking them for remote access to anyone who visited Syria or anyone in DC on January 6th, 2021, for example.
I know most people forget to do this but if you turn off iCloud photos syncing aren’t the photos on your device still private and secure?
In other words, as long as you don’t send all your photos up to the cloud, Apple does not have the ability to look at them. They’re not remotely logging into your phone and looking at your photos on your phone. They are looking at copies of your photos that you sent to their iCloud servers.
If you don’t want that to happen turn off iCloud photo syncing. However, this will limit the number of photos you can store on your phone if you have a phone with a small storage capacity (16, 32 or 64 GB)
My user tip is to always buy the phone or iPad with the largest storage capacity you can afford. I have an iPad with 512 GB and I’m very happy because I can store as many downloaded movies and music onto it as I want to. The movie streaming service that I pay for allows me to temporary download entire movies which makes them much easier to watch as I can avoid buffering issues.
Having extra storage also allows me to do video screen recordings for any videos that I want to save to my iPad. This allows me to save YouTube videos permanently to my device even if they decide to censor or erase that video later. If I use YouTube’s download option, that video that I downloaded will be disabled once they censor it.
Which movie service are you running? My paid for the year service just went down on me : /
I’m in mainland China so I’m using a couple of Chinese App movie streaming services.
I’m assuming they’re blocked outside of China and even if they weren’t you would need to use Chinese payment systems and be able to reach Chinese to use them.
Most Chinese services are probably half the cost of Netflix. Given that they are full of a bunch of Chinese movies that I don’t wanna watch it’s not the greatest value in the world.
The best thing about them is that I don’t need a VPN and I can download an entire movie in about two minutes within mainland China.
They're as secure as any device with hardware backdoors and a software ring 0 authorisation has. So long as Apple can update and install shit to your phone without you knowing, along with certain service providers, then you've no reason to assume anything is secure.
Up to now Apple has been pretty good about privacy. They’ve gone back-and-forth with the government over unlocking phones seized from so-called terrorists.
If Apple put in a feature where they could go into anyone’s phone anywhere and start remotely scanning the photos, videos, text messages, location history, notes or the web history on the phone itself, that opens them up to abuse from the NSA or the FBI.
Then these federal agencies would be knocking on Apple door and asking them for remote access to anyone who visited Syria or anyone in DC on January 6th, 2021, for example.