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> there is no way to turn that syncing off, apart from just disabling iCloud Drive completely

Oh, well, glad that was the first thing I did when I got an iPhone :p

Are you now secure?

Your smartphone isn't connected to a cloud service?!

How is it that surprising that they don't use iCloud drive on their phone?

I'm wondering if they used an alternative or none at all. My smartphone would be much less useful without a cloud service.

The first thing my phone asked me when I was setting it up was whether I wanted to enable iCloud backups, and I declined to create an account.