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> Also I don't understand how you could screw these things up repeatedly for so many features.

Seems like a generic bug in the settings system which is fairly complex. Pretty easy to see how something like that could happen.

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I agree. It’s easy to see how a user hostile setting would go unchecked by a large corporate company that doesn’t benefit from protecting the privacy of its users.

That’s a weird conspiracy theory. How does anyone figure Apple benefits from this. How is the setting even ‘user hostile’?

I consider sending anything up to the cloud without user's consent is pretty hostile. Passwords especially. I don't care if they claim it's E2EE; programmers and implementations are fallible and I thought a key part of Apple's whole value proposition is it's supposed to retain control in the user's hands.

> I consider sending anything up to the cloud without user's consent is pretty hostile.

If not illegal.

Do these "generic bugs" ever happen the other way around? Meaning, do they ever disable any form of communication to Apple or are they always enabling?

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