Guess what’s empty now? Yeah, I’ve got zero Notes. I have been tracking the progress of my battery tests in Apple Notes. I have no Reminders so I guess I’ll take a nap. It’s also fun to see when our buddy Ron is on Easter Island by using Find Friends.īut when signed out of iCloud, you can’t see anything in Find My. Kyle has a gruesome commute, so if I time things properly, I can call him when he’s on the most boring part of his drive to keep him awake. If I see Lindsay is on her drive home, I will call her so we can entertain each other. If I’m going on a walk and I see that Pat Dengler is at Disneyland, I probably won’t call her to entertain me. ![]() If I look at Find My and see Bart is on a mountain, it’s probably not a good time to ping him with a question. Sure it’s great to track my devices with AirTags at an airport, but really often I use it as a way to find out if now would be a good time to call someone. My friends and family are big fans of Find My and especially Find Friends. It’s like I have both hands tied behind my back. I can’t get to audio files, I can’t get to screenshots for blog articles, and I can’t get to listener contributions. I keep my weekly podcast files in my Documents folder, which means now that I’m signed out of iCloud, I literally cannot work on the podcast. Using the Files app, I can browse my Documents and Desktop just as easily as I can browse Dropbox or Google Drive. Until recently, I primarily use one Mac, but more than once it’s been super handy to get to my files on the road from my iPad or iPhone. One of the slickest parts of throwing money at Apple for iCloud+ is that you can sync your Documents and Desktop across your devices. Oh well, guess I won’t chat with those folks while I’m doing this experiment. Apple warn on their support page that signing out of iCloud will stop iCloud syncing of Messages, but I was surprised that I was completely logged out of Messages. I’m not a big fan of Apple’s Messages app, and vastly prefer Telegram, but a few of my friends and family still use Messages. The only email I see is my Gmail account and that’s not used for much more than Google services. I recently converted my personal domain email over to iCloud, which means Mail loses access to my email as well. MailĪs you might expect, I lost access to my Apple ID email. But I didn’t really think about how much doesn’t work when you’re signed out of iCloud. I knew it would be torture, if only because it takes nearly a week for my Mac to regain access to all of my Photos. ![]() ![]() The most annoying experiment they asked me to do was to sign out of iCloud and then track the battery drain. The subject came into even sharper focus when conducting experiments, at Apple Engineering’s behest, to try to solve my pesky battery problems on my M1 MacBook Pro. I’ve been planning on writing up how much I take advantage of all of the integrations Apple give us between our devices.
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