iCloud Terms of Service

Use & Processing · Company practice

Mail Drop temporarily stores large email attachments on iCloud servers outside your quota

If you are signed in to iCloud and send large attachments from the macOS Mail app or iCloud Mail on the web, you can choose Mail Drop. The attachments are stored temporarily on iCloud servers to help deliver them, and recipients get a link or a preview depending on their email app. This temporary storage does not count toward your iCloud storage quota.

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With Mail Drop, your large attachments will be temporarily stored on iCloud servers in order to facilitate their delivery.

Apple will either send a link or a preview of the attachment to recipients, depending on your recipient’s email client application.

Temporary storage of large email attachments will not count towards your iCloud storage quota.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Mail Drop is optional and applies to large attachments sent from macOS Mail or iCloud Mail on the web.

Not stated here

• This agreement does not state how long Mail Drop attachments are kept; it points to an Apple support page that was not supplied.

Use & Processing · Company practice

Apple may apply blocking and sharing controls designed to limit illegal content such as child abuse material

Apple has developed systems and processes designed to protect users from illegal content and may apply them to the Service. They might include blocking functions and controls on sharing Content between users, designed to minimize how long serious illegal content, including child sexual exploitation and abuse content, stays on the Service.

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Apple has developed systems and processes designed to protect users from illegal content which Apple may apply to the Service.

Such processes might include blocking functions and controls on sharing Content between users which are designed to minimize the time serious illegal content, including child sexual exploitation and abuse content, may be present on the Service.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Apple may apply these systems; the processes might include the listed controls.

Not stated here

• The agreement does not describe how these systems detect illegal content.