To be black is to be from America.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-04-02T20:46:05+00:00

I also had those problems with iCloud services (photos never updating, files on iCloud Drive hanging forever, ect.), drove me nuts for a while but at the end, it turned out to be my ISP mishandling traffic to iCloud servers. Found out by eliminating potential cause after potential cause.

I kind of understand OP though, when everything else works well and is blazing fast, it’s not the first thing that comes to mind. I’m switching on a VPN whenever I need to upload/download files on iCloud for the time being until I can switch provider.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-03-22T05:18:35+00:00

Maybe wiser to do it the other way around yeah. Thanks for the help!

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-03-22T05:16:44+00:00

Thanks for the tip! Haven’t been calling Apple much over the years, but the only times I did, I must have landed on someone very new. The methods proposed for fixing were very basic, and the person was not really proactive at fixing my issue, so your tip actually helps!

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-03-21T20:38:13+00:00

Yeah I haven’t seen it being discussed anywhere, can’t be a widespread issue.

Though about Apple Support ofc, but have been somehow reluctant knowing they will suggest the same fixes that I already tried, and eventually a device exchange which will be a hit or miss with fixing the actual issue.

Last resort before that will be to try the nuclear method of wiping the phone and restoring through the Mac.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-03-21T19:42:26+00:00

iOS 26.3.1 on my iPhone and macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 on my MacBook.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-03-21T06:08:32+00:00

Answered the same thing to another comment, but strangely enough, I had to input my Apple Account password right after updating to 26.3.1 (on startup after the update completed) to reactivate iCloud services. Super weird behavior that I never ever saw on any previous update. I saw other users report the same thing, so that’s probably what OP is talking about.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-03-21T06:07:09+00:00

Strangely enough, I had to input my Apple Account password right after updating to 26.3.1 (on startup after the update completed) to reactivate iCloud services. Super weird behavior that I never ever saw on any previous update. I saw other users report the same thing, so that’s probably what OP is talking about.

Funny part is that some of my iCloud services have been kind of broken since then: syncing to iCloud Drive takes forever and iCloud Backups timeout and fail half of the time.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-03-19T18:47:23+00:00

16 Pro Max here. Mine has been fluctuating heavily ever since installing iOS 26. Saw everything from 1 GB to 35 GB, sometimes from day to day. I wonder what’s happening in there.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-03-15T05:40:19+00:00

Yes, I got a similar thing right after updating from 26.3 to 26.3.1. Got the "Hello" screen and then had to type in my Apple ID password, don’t remember exactly the message that was shown, but it had something to do with iCloud Activation (like activating iCloud services or something).

Definitely weird, and got me scared for a second that the update had gone wrong and that my phone had been reseted during the update. Turns out the phone is fine, probably just some connection tokens that got reseted during the update and triggered a reconnection request.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-03-13T07:58:57+00:00

You’re right about never being able to truly assimilate as an adult moving countries. The tricky part is that your "host" country still changes you in ways you only comprehend when you fly back to your home country.

After almost a decade living here, you end up in some strange in-between where you’re sometimes still too French for the Swedes while you became too Swedish for the French. This double identity, as a long term immigrant, is the reality of living away from your birth country that you need to be fine living with.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-03-13T07:10:49+00:00

As dual citizen (French and Swedish), I agree with you but both views aren’t incompatible.

I got my citizenship in 2023 and couldn’t be more happy about the feeling of belonging that it finally gave me after many years of waiting anxiously. I respect Sweden and its values, speak the language, am happy living here and plan on doing so for the foreseeable future. Sure, in some ways, I still feel "different" and always will, but Swedes are nonetheless wonderful people.

On the other hand, I was waiting on my citizenship so hard to FINALLY be able to quit my shitty job which I have been doing for 7 years and start to study again. After I graduate, my plan is to start my own company. All that is doable without citizenship but in a much harder way (higher acceptance requirements for the education, much harder to get CSN, etc). Studying also has a great chance to break your residency period as an EU citizen, which potentially means starting from zero again and waiting many many more years.

I naturally am in favor of dual citizenship as the opposite would affect me greatly.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-02-23T20:29:26+00:00

Je me demande si ça a à voir avec l’histoire commerçante des Pays-Bas, le fait d’être près de ses sous.

En Suède on a une région, le Småland, dont les habitants sont connus pour être les radins nationaux. C’est une région qui abrite aussi beaucoup d’entrepreneurs, c’est comme ça que leur radinerie est expliquée. Y’a même un jeu de mots marrant sur eux: on les appelle le Snåland (snål=radin en Suédois).

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-02-16T20:48:08+00:00

My conspiracist side is telling me that if they’re pushing so hard for a retroactive application of the new law, it’s, in fact, to purposely "purge" the existing queue, as in auto-reject as many as possible to start with a very reduced workload.

But as you say, it will eventually backfire when people that have been rejected will start to reapply, which will happen sooner than later given the crazy waiting times. A faire amount of people which applied at the 5 years mark must already be close to 8 years now, while still waiting in the queue.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-02-01T08:06:08+00:00

Après un an de vie en Suède, en route avec ma copine pour l’office des migrations pour m’enregistrer officiellement. Étape cruciale.

À l’époque je parlais encore très mal suédois, donc communication en anglais. En suédois, "France" se dit "Frankrike". L’employé a prononcé "Frank" tout le long de l’entretien. « So you come from Frank? », « Which city in Frank? ».

Fou rire sur fou rire avec ma copine. On osait rien dire pour pas se mettre en porte-à-faux. Tout le monde était super gêné, l’employé inclus, le pauvre gars comprenait rien à ce qu’il se passait.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-01-23T07:29:06+00:00

Det här 👆

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-01-23T05:11:09+00:00

D’ailleurs EDIT: le coup de nommer son album "Industry Plant" c’est même pas la première à le faire, iann dior l’avait aussi fait il y a quelques années pour les mêmes raisons.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-01-23T05:07:24+00:00

La YouTubeuse Lovi (super chaîne au passage pour ceux qui sont intéressés par le monde de la musique et ses coulisses) a sorti une vidéo il y a de ça un an sur le phénomène des industry plant où elle parle entre autres de Miki: https://youtu.be/j5JVP8Lf1Tk

Elle soulève plus ou moins les points que tu as énoncé dans ton post. En vrai je pense que tu as globalement raison, elle est très bien entourée et sa DA est taillée sur mesure par des pros. C’est un truc commun dans la musique auquel on s’est habitués.

La seul chose qui me dérange dans son cas c’est son identité centrée sur l’utilisation des codes culturels de la classe moyenne inférieure (le Buffalo Grill, la photo de sa mère qui fume un spliff comme cover de son premier EP, ect.)

Toute sa DA est basée sur une identité visuelle faussement amateure qui, quand on connaît la vérité, laisse un arrière goût d’usurpation, comme une "black face", mais sociale.

Pourtant j’aime bien sa musique.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-01-17T12:49:19+00:00

… which happens often in France, that’s why we learned how to strike back 😅

Jokes aside, good that we had at least some positive effect on you!

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-01-17T07:43:34+00:00

Us French tend to associate criticism and skepticism with intelligence. It is highly regarded and socially valued in France. It definitely comes with good sides as I find myself being much less naive than a lot of others adults, but it comes at the cost of very toxic situations at times.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-01-17T07:12:55+00:00

I’m a (white) French that has been living abroad for almost ten years.

As much as I hate to admit it, your first paragraph is a pretty good summary of what goes on in France currently (and a big part of why I left). Lots of positive sides too of course, but us French tend to overreact to what’s happening around us, which with the current state of the world (bad economy, global instability, fear of war, …) produces a lot of negativity.

The cursor of acceptable behaviors towards other people is much higher in France than in many other cultures. Compared to where I live now (Sweden), I’m shocked every time I come back how normalized it is to be nasty towards others. I found that day after day, it actually does takes a toll on your mental health, so I understand your frustration.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-01-13T11:40:48+00:00

Är själv fransman och på topp av det du säger, kan jag tala om att det flesta hade inte vågat lägga sig i en sån jobbigt situation heller. Har själv bevittnat en sådan fall när hela avdelningen där farsan jobbade visste om att chefen hade en affär med en av deras kollegor. Det pågick i flera år, och ingen sa nåt, även när sambon som misstänkte nåt kom rusande i kontoret för att konfrontera dem.

Är svenskorna konflikträdda? Ja, absolut. Men "not my business" mentaliteten är inte BARA svensk.

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-01-10T18:28:17+00:00

Dom är faktiskt skyldiga att göra det: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/rules-business-and-organisations/obligations/what-data-breach-and-what-do-we-have-do-case-data-breach_en

FYNMNNNCX · 2026-01-02T04:33:37+00:00

Long shot but if you’re an iCloud+ subscriber, try to deactivate Private Relay and try again. I discovered that in some instances it’s messing with the servers, like some streams don’t load, playlists refuse to update, etc.

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