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How do they determine if your iCloud account is Chinese. If you use a Chinese SIM card? Access from a Chinese IP? Neither? Both?

Depending on that it could still affect someone from the US for example, if they took a business trip to China. Or if something maliciously routed your internet traffic through China.

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From the article:

> The change only affects users who set China as their country on Apple devices and doesn’t affect users who select Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan.

iCloud accounts are region specific, it’s a pretty involved process to change it. You have to have a local payment source like a credit card.

Okay, this makes me a little more comfortable - does Apple state this as being how they determine data residency?

Small correction: the credit card is not needed if you go through specific steps like a free app. Then you can select “none” as the payment method in every country I’ve tested so far.

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