After a week of nervous female celebrities, FBI investigations and DMCA takedowns, the finger of blame has firmly been pointed at iCloud as the source for many of the leaked celebrity pictures (although this could happen with any Cloud storage service).
If you'd prefer not to have any of your photos from your iPhone or iPad on iCloud, here is how to do it:
1. Disable Photo Stream
iCloud can back up your last 1,000 photos, Thats pictures you have taken on any of your iDevices that has Photo Stream enabled.
- Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad
- Tap on iCloud
- Tap on Photos
- Under the Photos Section, turn off My Photo Stream
2. Turn off iCloud Camera Roll backups
Many of the leaked photos came from photos recovered from iCloud backups which contained the Camera Roll. If you do this, ensure you periodically save your photos to your home PC, laptop or Mac or you may lose them if you break your iPhone or iPad.
- Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad
- Tap on iCloud
- Tap on Storage & Backup at the very bottom
- Tap on Manage Storage
- Tap on your current device under Backups
- Under Backup Options, turn Off the option for Camera Roll
- Tap on Turn off & Delete to confirm.
3. Sync to iTunes instead
If you really want to make sure that iCloud doesn't have any information you don't want it to, don't use it! So long as you have a PC, laptop or Mac you can install iTunes on, you can sync all of your information to that instead. Just ensure you do this regularly.
