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iCloud.com Restore Slow

I'm shocked by how slow icloud.com/recovery is. It would be different if I didn't pay for extra storage. Or, if Apple products were cheap. I'd think, "Well, this company makes stuff cheap so, I'll sit and wait I guess. At least I didn't have to take out a loan for this computer." But, that's not the case. When you pay a lot of money to use Apple products, and when you think about how good Apple is supposed to be, a somewhat little thing like this is shocking. If you are going to offer such a feature, it should be pleasant and fast. I'm sitting waiting for files to load. It's been 30 minutes so far. I haven't even gotten to the restore part which I've read can take a long time too.

Posted on Nov 1, 2026 1:21 PM

2 replies

Billy Wilcosky Author

Level 1 (8 points)

Nov 1, 2026 2:58 PM in response to sberman

No VPN. Fast, amazing internet service. I run multiple websites and maintain apps. I've done so since 2005. I'm not a newbie to the internet. icloud.com/recovery, when you need to see if you can recover a file, is painfully slow. In fact, since I made this post, the site froze and I've had to start all over.

The problem is that Apple has decided, that if you want to try and recover a file this way, they will slowly load every backed up file. They don't cache or store anything in a way that would allow you to recover the files faster. All you can do is sit and wait if you have a lot of data backed up.

By the time I'm done, I'm going to bet I will have spent multiple hours on this endeavor and I might not even find the file I'm looking for.

sberman

Level 10 (280,982 points)

Nov 1, 2026 2:43 PM in response to Billy Wilcosky

You have told us nothing about your method of connecting to the internet. Perhaps, for example, you’re using VPN which would almost certainly obstruct your iCloud communication.

Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256387166