Get Off of iCloud by T.A.P.E. Los Angeles
Sick of relying on iCloud to store your precious photos, videos, and text messages? Concerned about privacy, digital security, and surveillance? Afraid Apple might delete your personal archive? Or maybe you’ve already lost things to the digital ether? Join T.A.P.E. Los Angeles for a workshop about getting off of iCloud, by building a system of backups and alternatives. Combating digital alienation and building autonomy for us all!
Taught by audio visual archivists Jackie Forsyte and Sydney Kysar, the workshop will cover the following skills and tools:
- Identify the most common digital preservation risks
- Outline the problems with Apple’s proprietary file formats
- Identify ideal hardware and storage devices for preservation
The Workshop’s hands-on portion will be a step-by-step walkthrough of how to download data off of icloud.
- Introduction to command line tools
- Script to download text messages as dynamic html
- How to download and convert voice messages & voicemails
- Tools and skills to download photos and videos from icloud
- Convert Apple proprietary files to open source or non-proprietary files
Please bring your computer, your iphone, and, if possible, a harddrive/flashdrive/solid state drive.
Capacity: 20
Cost: Sliding Scale $25-40
T.A.P.E — Teach. Archive. Preserve. Exhibit – is a Los Angeles-based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on-training, equipment rentals & volunteer opportunities.