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Originally Posted by wdfifteen

My condolences. My iPhone and iPad updated and suddenly I couldn't store any photos. It turned out
some setting had been changed. I wish there was some minimum update that you could do that would fix the "security issues" and not add unwanted "features." When I got the 18.2 update a new app was added - "Passwords." I don't keep passwords on my phone or iPad except for the apps I use because I don't want to be carrying my passwords around. I want to leave them all at home. But there were a bunch of passwords from my computer on my phone! I don't know how they got there. It seems Apple assumes they know how to run our lives better than we do. I'm about ready to get an Android, but I don't know if they're any better.

"When I try to send or receive, it says I have to re-enter my password. Then a window pops up saying it wants too use Microsoft.net to sign in. "

That is a known problem from a previous update. I was able to enter 2 Gmail addresses the old way, but then I started getting that message.

You're probably using iCloud to backup your what I think has been called "keychain" and is probably now called "passwords" which is where the passwords are kept on your home PC. If your home PC backs anything up to the cloud, and then you have other devices that also have access to the cloud, then all of the devices have access to the info/data that your home PC backs up to the cloud. It's a feature for most folks to make everything easy.

You'd need to go into your iCloud settings on all of your devices and disable things that you don't want going to the cloud or don't want to get sucked down from the cloud into those devices.

If you turn it off on the PC, then it won't go to the cloud and no other devices will be able to access the information.

If you turn it (email, chats, passwords, images, etc....) off on the phone, then it'll be in the cloud, but your phone won't be able to download it (unless your phone gets configured to talk to the cloud for that item).

If you want to be really secure, then make sure nothing talks to the cloud, but then you are probably going to lose some functionality that you want.

I'm pretty sure that stuff has always been accessible from your phone, it just wasn't so obvious.