[Electronics-Talk] FW: [GTTsupport] FW: [PBU] iCloud folder sharing disappears from iOS 13 | Cult of Mac

[Eric Calhoun]

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Subject: [GTTsupport] FW: [PBU] iCloud folder sharing disappears from iOS
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Mon, 9 Sep 2019 07:43:45 -0400

Hi all.

See below for an article about icloud folder sharing which was supposed
to come out in IOS 13.

Guess they are having issues and will push this implementation back.

I am still running the beta of IOS 13.

There are a few bugs but also a few nice improvements.

Kim


iCloud folder sharing disappears from iOS 13


 <https://www.cultofmac.com/author/charlie-sorrel/> Charlie Sorrel1:00
pm, September 3, 2019

 
<https://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2005-08-20-1731.38fca3a
47e064fbfb122dfde67666dad-780x585.jpeg> This is how iCloud Drive works. 
Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac 

One of the handiest features in iOS 13 appears to have been pushed back
to at least iOS 13.2. iCloud Folder Sharing, which would have let many
people ditch Dropbox entirely, has disappeared from the current iOS 13
betas. And that's not all. Also gone is the ability to pin a file to save
it offline. What's going on?


iCloud Drive regression


Here's Ulysses developer Max Seeleman on what happened:

It seems that a big behind-the-scenes update to iCloud's architecture was
causing too many problems, and has been put aside for now. According to
Seeleman's explorations, "It seems that Apple has done a full rollback of
basically all iCloud changes from Catalina/iOS 13. The sync agent 'bird' is
back, as is 'brctl'. Gone is the new 'iCloudDrive' agent. No folder sharing
until at least iOS 13.2, it seems. Maybe even iOS 14?"

 
<https://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DraggedImage.jpeg>
Apple's release notes show how shaky the new iCloud implementation was.
Screenshot: Max Seeleman/Twitter 

These changes may also be responsible for the removal of file pinning,
available in earlier iOS 13 betas. This let you pin a file, effectively
telling the Files app that you want to keep a permanent offline copy. Now,
we're back to the old behavior, where iOS automatically removes local
copies to save local storage space.

One of the characteristics of the iOS 13 beta has been the wonkiness of
iCloud Drive. The Files app has duplicated favorites, and the whole iCloud
Drive experience has felt very delicate on beta devices. Given how
fundamental this is to the modern iOS experience, it makes sense for Apple
to pull the changes, and take another run at this.

Would I rather have iCloud Folder Sharing, so I could ditch Dropbox? Of
course. But if that comes with unreliable syncing, or lost data, then I'm
not interested. Apple definitely should keep things as they are until the
wrinkles are all ironed out.

 




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