Pan Chen

Tag: iCloud

  • Migrating from Zoho Mail to iCloud+

    I stopped using Zoho Mail last night after being a Zoho customer for nearly six years, and migrated to iCloud+ custom domain email. Zoho mail is affordable and had been providing me with a stable email hosting solution. I started with the free plan and the moved to paid subscription which only cost me ~15 canadian dollars.

    Why I moved to iCloud+ custom domain email is that it’s basically free to me because I am subscribing to iCloud+. It saves me 15 bucks a year. I don’t recall if Zoho has a cap for the number of domain aliases, but iCloud+ custom domain does, limiting the number of domain aliases to Five Domains in my case (not sure if a higher iCloud+ plan gives more aliases, I am with 2TB plan). As for the email address aliases, I haven’t reached the cap yet.

    I am not running a business, so some features by Zoho are not necessary. For the domains that exceed the maximum number of domain aliases, I used CloudFlare email routing to forward the emails automatically to my now iCloud emails (I have many email aliases for receiving different types of emails but I don’t use them all to send, thus forwarding is sufficient).

  • iCloud Passwords extension may slow down your browsers – a non-perfect solution

    If you are like me, who uses Apple devices but also a Windows PC, and you have the iCloud Passwords extension to sync your passwords. Well, maybe you are having the same issue as described below.

    I have been experiencing a slow Edge/Chrome on my Windows 11 PC, even with a fresh installation after the upgrade. Especially Youtube and GitHub, it would take me 10 seconds to go back to the home page from a video, and 1 mins to search by keywords for a repo!

    I started by questioning if the AIEPlatform I was developing caused the issue, but soon it cleared the suspicion. I checked the processes, everything seemed okay. I tested my internet speed and that’s no problem.

    Then, I started to turn off the extensions one by one. I turned iCloud Passwords at last because it’s developed by Apple so I felt like it shouldn’t cause this issue. But right after I disabled iCloud Passwords, Youtube and GitHub became much much faster, back to the normal speed I would expect.

    I am not clear why iCloud Passwords would cause an issue, but after a Google search, I found some people had the same issue as well.

    Non-perfect solution

    Here is a non-perfect solution. We can give iCloud Passwords access on click (by default it’s On all sites). Then, whenever we want to use the passwords stored in iCloud, we need to click the extension icon.

    Why do I call it a non-perfect solution? This is because, with this setting, the extension won’t prompt us to save/update passwords in iCloud unless we click the icon beforehand.

    I have been using iCloud Passwords for months and I didn’t feel Edge was slowing down until very recently, so I am not sure if this is because of a recent update of the extension.

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