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Might be something wrong on your side. Reason is that I've used iCloud for more than a decade. At first it was a bit rough, but it's been rock stable the last 5-6 years. I also use it for grocery lists between my wife and I.

And we're in South Africa, so not even as close to iCloud's main servers as you are (presumably).

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Do you only update your grocery lists at home or in places with good WiFi? Because I can reliably cause iCloud to choke if network coverage is less than excellent (a plausible use case for grocery lists, I’d imagine). Dropbox, on the other hand, doesn’t bat an eye.

So she sends me a shared note on iMessage, I usually only click on it once I am physically in the store. Then I check the "boxes" and she can see it in near real time.

Often she's typing additions to the list as I'm using it, which is a cool feature. Not as rapid as e.g. Google Docs would be, I think.

This is not on WiFi as I just use 3G, 4G or 5G (whatever is available) when doing shopping.

A shared iMessage note is the scariest thing ever.

I’ll tap on it and it will only open like 50% of the time.

My wife and I found Notion works great for grocery lists or other household planning stuff.

As far as I know Apple just uses AWS for hosting. Not sure what regions but it’s likely you’re connecting to on in Cape Town or somewhere in Europe

They use GCP as well.

We have AWS in Cape Town and GCP in Johannesburg.

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