November 2011

Apple recently sent an email to developers whose apps were making inefficient use of iCloud’s backup settings. The email asked developers to review the amount and type of data the app was storing in its Documents folder, as iCloud backs up all app data stored in the Documents directory when the Documents & Data backup option is set to “On”. Seeing as this setting covers all apps, it is especially important to ensure that only documents and other data that are user-generated, or that cannot otherwise be recreated by the app, should be stored in the /Documents Directory.