In addition to the concerns I raised about reliability and accessibility, readers also pointed to the impact on mobile data usage. A little over 10%, though, are going all-in with the ‘Store on iCloud’ feature, which stores all Desktop and Documents files on iCloud by default, retaining local copies only of recently-opened ones. In our poll, more than 70% of you said that you were switching off the feature, against only 17% leaving it on. Then it turns on “optimise files” anyway, without my permission (no one who hasn’t read this article will even know this is happening). Others echoed this in comments and tweets. I noted my surprise at discovering that ‘Optimize Mac Storage’ – which automatically deletes local copies of files stored on iCloud when space gets tight – was switched on by default for me. A poll we ran yesterday reveals that the overwhelming majority of 9to5Mac readers are opting to switch off the new storage-management features introduced in macOS Sierra.
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