Apple has notified developers of plans for a server-side data wipe on CloudKit public and private databases for both the beta versions iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. The wipe, which will take place on Monday, July 7, will erase data for iCloud Drive, iCloud Photo Library, and Mail Drop.
The wipe comes just a day ahead of the rumored launch date of iOS 8 beta 3 and also the likely launch date of the third Yosemite Developer Preview. Apple commonly seeds early versions of its iOS beta operating systems on roughly two-week intervals, moving on to three-week intervals later in the testing period. OS X beta updates have followed a similar update pattern in the past as well.
Apple's second iOS 8 and Yosemite betas came approximately two weeks after the software was first provided to developers at the Worldwide Developers Conference, and it has now been three weeks since those updates were seeded.
Both iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite are expected to be released to the public in the fall, after an extended beta testing period.
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I hope nobody who has their important data has it backed up solely on a ****ing beta OS. :rolleyes:
Photostream is your last 1000 photos and doesn't count against your iCloud storage allowance and is also not accessible beyond allowing you to sync photos across devices.
iCloud Photos is the new Yosemite / iOS 8 "upload all your photos to iCloud to backup/share them" functionality and does count against your storage allowance along with the new iCloud Drive general storage functionality.
It is the new iCloud Photos / Drive that are being wiped which are both beta features.
There's always one.
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Ugh. This tells you nothing.
That's what it means. If you keep local copies they won't go away. Just the cloud stuff.
Anyone else smelling the public Appleseed beta?