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I thought this was the case. I was sharing mobile data over wifi to several iPhone users with some basic data use monitoring so that I could firewall services t
by Zak 9y ago
I thought this was the case. I was sharing mobile data over wifi to several iPhone users with some basic data use monitoring so that I could firewall services that used unreasonable amounts of data.
One of them, despite having all the automatic update and backup features we could find turned off regularly attempted to upload gigabytes of data to multiple IP addresses that resolved to Google Cloud. Since there were fairly few apps installed (none of them suspicious) and a large number of photos and videos on the device, my conclusion is that it was a spurious iCloud photo backup.
Unfortunately, iOS does not appear to provide a way to see what's using data on Wifi, only mobile, nor to designate a Wifi network as metered.
- illumin8 9y agoIt could just be using iMessage. When you send photo and video attachments using iMessage, they get stored on iCloud for some period of time so that other users can view or download them.
- Zak 9y agoThe user was not sending large attachments. While attempting to troubleshoot, the phone was idle. This was definitely an automated background process.
- BinaryIdiot 9y agoConsidering the technology Apple uses for spanning cloud providers, this seems unlikely. I would imagine they would proxy all of this data and you wouldn't see direct accessing of Google Cloud.