Comment by lylo
De-Appleing is very difficult if you have a family using iCloud Photos, music, drive etc.
Looking at the list, perhaps moving documents off iCloud Drive (to where? Dropbox? That isn’t E2E is it?) and Notes is enough.
Do I really care if my photos are E2E encrypted? Most of my photos are in Lightroom cloud so those are not anyway.
I don’t use reminders or Freeform or voice memos, and I couldn’t care less about safari bookmarks. If I move off Drive and Notes, I don’t really care about iCloud backup either.
Is this sufficient? My notes will go to Obsidian (except some disposable shared ones) but where do I move my documents if not on iCloud Drive? Is Dropbox any better?
> De-Appleing is very difficult if you have a family using iCloud Photos, music, drive etc.
Although this is just anecdata, I moved my senior parents from iCloud Photos to Immich recently and their response was something like:
"Wow, the new Photos program on the iPad looks nice!"
For them it works out fine, since their use-cases are checking out vacation photos by scrolling the timeline and also occasionally clicking on the "memories" from N years ago. Helps that the app icon is very similar, too.