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I know these kind of discussions generally polarise people, and we end up with a bunch of subjective reports of how it does / does not work, but I'd really be interested to know if anyone has a use case where 1 or more os x machines and 1 or more ios devices have every synced in icloud reliably.

For the (subjective) record, I have never had icloud sync work as expected - it always finds a way to eat files.

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I use 2 OS X machines and an iPhone (I have an iPad too but I almost never use it). And I've never had iCloud eat anything. The worst behavior I've ever seen is upon rare occasion having iCloud take longer than expected to sync changes made to stuff in iCloud Drive, but that's it.

During the OS X betas, I've had some issues with the underlying daemons that manages iCloud sync (e.g. bird), but that was a developer beta so it doesn't really count, and it still never actually lost data.

I use a Mac Mini, rMBP, retina iPad Mini, and iPhone 6S.

I've never had any trouble with iCloud syncing personally, though I haven't used it for a ton of stuff. Photos is definitely the biggest use I've ever had for iCloud and it works flawlessly from day one for me.

I have 2 OS X machines (a Macbook & iMac), an iPad, and 2 iPhones. My photos, keychains, bookmarks, iCloud drive, etc. do sync reliably & predictably, though the iOS devices need to be on WiFi to sync their photos.

The only area I've had some problems lately with are Contacts. I'll update a contact in one space and not see it updated on another device consistently. Not sure why.

I have 5 devices, 3 synced to the same account, and 2 on separate accounts, using Family Sharing, and photos has worked really well so far. Everything is synced and working well.

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