Apple Officially Announces October 16th Special Event: ‘It’s Been Way Too Long’

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Apple has sent members of the press an invite to a special event on October 16th, reports The Loop.

The event will take place at the company’s Cupertino, California campus starting at 10:00 am PT.

As is normal with Apple invites, there are no clues as to what the company will talk about or introduce at the event. Given the huge event in September where the company unveiled new iPhones and the Apple Watch, I suspect this event will focus more on existing products.

It’s rumored that the company will launch a new iPad Air 2new iMacs, and OS X Yosemite at the event.

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Warning: A Bug in iOS 8’s ‘Reset All Settings’ Function is Erasing Files From iCloud Drive

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A serious bug in iOS 8’s ‘Reset All Settings’ function appears to be erasing documents stored in iCloud Drive, according to several reports.

A poster on the MacRumors forums discovered the bug after trying ‘Reset All Settings’ to improve iOS 8 performance on an iPad 3.

Because iOS 8 was so sluggish on my iPad 3 I reset all settings (No data or media will be deleted) and sped it up BUT deleted my iWork data! Then promptly synced and deleted it in iCloud.I have public beta of Yosemite so can’t roll back via time machine. I have no pre iOS 8 backups in iTunes or iCloud to revert to (well iCloud device backups don’t contain cloud documents and I should have iOS 7 backups in iTunes but can’t find any. iCloud has no trash like dropbox. They seem gone forever.

The files are being deleted despite the function clearing stating, “No data or media will be deleted.” As you may know, the option is simply meant to reset user preferences.

At this point it appears that only iWork documents are being wiped. MacRumors tested the bug themselves and found that all iWork documents stored in iCloud Drive on the iPhone and on iCloud.com were deleted. After some time for syncing, all of the documents were deleted off a Mac running OS X Yosemite as well. Preview and TextEdit documents which don’t have a corresponding iPhone app were fine.

Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to recover these documents. Several people who have suffered lost files are in contact with Apple Support. One said Apple was waiting on engineers to investigate. Another said his account was in troubleshooting mode as Apple attempted to recover the data.

We strongly recommend you do not use the “Reset All Settings” option if you have iCloud Drive enabled.

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