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Great article. I hadn’t thought about the upsell like this before. The ad that really drives me nuts on iOS is in the Settings app - saying your phone hasn’t b
by nikodunk 5y ago
Great article. I hadn’t thought about the upsell like this before.
The ad that really drives me nuts on iOS is in the Settings app - saying your phone hasn’t been backed up to iCloud. I consistently have a red bubble on it now that I need to dismiss daily. I then sometimes miss real notifications from Settings because I’ve become blind to it.
On macOS the notifications and prompts got so bad that I finally switched to Fedora 2 months ago. Turns out it works very well for my needs nowadays. I will not see ads for iCloud on my $1,000+ mac, thank you very much. https://t2linux.org https://t2linux.org was very helpful for the switch.
- habibur 5y agoI switched to Fedora some 4-6 years back -- and that was the first thing I noticed -- no ads.
- vbezhenar 5y agoI don't have this notification. I disabled iCloud backup when setting up phone first time.
- tim333 5y agoiCloud backup is actually quite a handy thing to have had when your phone gets lost / stolen. If you just remove photos from the list of things it's backing up the the rest usually fits in the free 5gb they give you.
- andrei_says_ 5y agoI don’t have this and I have iCloud backup off for most things and so the 5gb free plan is more than enough. Is it possible you’re interpreting the reminder to use the free tier of iCloud to back up essential iPhone data as an ad? If you don’t back up photos video and email you can likely remain on the free plan indefinitely. I don’t consider this an ad.