Apple has quietly added a server-side API to CloudKit, following an announcement on the developer news blog. This will enable developers to add a lot of functionality to apps powered by CloudKit, ...

Apple originally acquired FoundationDB in 2015, and last April it announced that it was making the cloud database open source. Now, things are being taken a step further as FoundationDB has announced ...

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While Apple has a reputation for building beautiful hardware and powerful software, recent forays into the cloud, including MobileMe, iCloud, and Siri, have been found wanting by many. At today’s WWDC ...

A Detectify researcher has explained how an investigation into Apple CloudKit led to the accidental downtime of Shortcuts functionality for users. In March, Apple ...

If you’ve lived through the last couple iterations of OS X and iOS, you’ve probably had the opportunity to develop a special love/hate relationship with iCloud. Apple’s cloud service suite is made up ...

In iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma, turning off iCloud Drive no longer impacts third-party apps that use Apple's iCloud database to sync their data, a notable change that is likely to be welcomed by both ...

A security researcher has explained how his investigation into Apple's CloudKit platform inadvertently brought down Siri Shortcuts earlier in 2021. Frans Rosen, a bug bounty hunter for security firm ...

Apple's CloudKit framework for automating apps' storage and retrieval of user data "in the cloud" has learned a new trick. Developers can now read and write data in their app's public database from a ...

You can no longer use the iCloud Backup feature on older iPhones and iPads running iOS 8 or earlier. Instead, backing up your device to iCloud now requires iOS 9 or later. Apple announced this change ...