Using iCloud to monitor the location of your Apple devices is an easy way to keep track of your stuff, and lock it down when it's in the wrong hands. Just remember to say goodbye to iCloud before you sell that ageing iMac. Designer Brenden Mulligan signed into his iCloud account and found an old friend waiting for him among his list of devices: the iMac he had sold nearly three years prior.

Apple keeps giving us reasons to say goodbye. iOS 11 is buggy as hell, with the most recent error making iPhones almost unusable and the latest version of macOS briefly exposed Mac owners to a major vulnerability. As for the iPhone X, it may be pretty sleek for an iPhone, but Apple's still playing catch-up to its Android competition.

Hackers are using Apple's "Find My" service to remotely hold devices for ransom, reports MacRumors. Multiple people have tweeted about stolen accounts in the past week. Two-factor authentication does not prevent the hack.

At WWDC 2017 Apple announced iOS 11, and with it a slew of space-saving features for smaller devices. Good on Apple for making 32GB the smallest storage in its iOS lineup, but it still isn't enough. A ton of people already spend time trying to reduce the size of their photos, apps, and other bits of data in order to save space and not meet the dreaded "Cannot take photo" alert when it's clutch time.

iOS: Every once in a while, Apple will push out a minor update that fixes some random little problem with its operating systems. This time around, it's the Apple ID page in 10.3, which finally has a more cohesive settings page with access to everything from two-factor authentication to serial numbers on your other devices.

Apple's iCloud has a long and troubled past, but the company keeps pushing it for iPhone and Mac users with every new operating system update. Don't be fooled. The service is an inconsistent mess and more trouble than it's worth.

Mac: If you just upgraded to macOS Sierra and your Dropbox app is acting up, you're not alone. Even with the latest version of the app, some users are experiencing strange behaviour -- error messages, confusing syncing icons and so on. Here's what you can do to mitigate the annoyances.

Apple has had a busy morning trying to restore the availability of a handful of its online services to customers. Among the services that went down was the Apple App Store and some iCloud features are still offline. Here's what you need to know.

Mac: Having trouble getting your Safari history and settings to sync over iCloud? OS X Daily points to a little setting in the Mac App that will force the sync process.

iOS: When you get an email attachment in iOS, chances are it's something you need to deal with in another app. To make things a little easier on yourself, OS X Daily points out that saving that attachment to iCloud Drive makes the process a little smoother.

iTunes and Apple Music work together in harmony, which is great for some people, but can make it pretty confusing to tell where songs are actually located. Macworld shows off a few easy ways to sort albums using smart playlists.

iOS 9 brought along a new version of the Notes app with a bunch of new features. However, oddly, if you start using it, you can't sync your notes that use those new features with OS X unless you're on the El Capitan beta. For now, you can use iCloud.com though.

Backing up your iPhone or iPad to iCloud is a good idea, but when you upgrade phones, you might end up with multiple backups, including ones you don't need anymore. OS X Daily shows you how to delete them.

Dear Lifehacker, We live in a world with multiple computers for one person, but I am having one issue. How can we keep everything in sync? I would like to work on my Mac at home. Close it, go to work and open my (different) Mac at work. I want the same configuration (yes, I do have some tendencies...), same files, same everything where I left off at home. Any suggestions?

Despite Apple's continued work on it, iCloud is still kind of a mess that's hard to understand. For example, at a glance using Finder, it seems like you can't recover hidden files. However, as Six Colours points out, if you hop into the web app (remember the web app?), you'll find a way to recover deleted files pretty easily.

Apple has made the beta version of its web-based iWork suite free for users who don't own any actual Apple hardware.

Apple's two-factor authentication relies on a Recovery Key when you get locked out, and you can't access your account if it's hacked without that key. The Next Web learnt this the hard way.

It looks like there's another bug in iOS 8. This one was found by MacRumors forum members and causes you to lose all your documents in iCloud Drive.

Mac: iOS 8 is here and it comes with a heap of awesome features. One of those features is a new, better version of iCloud dubbed iCloud Drive. But don't enable it yet.