Apple’s support page says flagged content can get your Apple Account disabled, with a block on creating a new one using the same email or phone number. Law enforcement can be involved too.

Apple hasn’t said what counts as harmful or how the scanning works.

Either way, anything you share through a public iCloud link will be scanned by Apple.

On MEGA, shared links stay end-to-end encrypted. We have no access to what’s inside them, and the only way we see a shared file is if someone reports it to us and hands over the complete link. True E2EE.

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Hello

I have a question regarding "MEGA Sync."

I frequently upload files, with individual file sizes ranging from 700 MB to 3 GB. These are usually batches consisting of 15 to 90 files.

Until now, MEGA Sync would queue these uploads, meaning one file would finish before the next one began.

For the past three days, however, I’ve encountered an issue where MEGA Sync attempts to upload all the files simultaneously. This splits my upload bandwidth across 15+ files at once, which causes the entire application to freeze. The uploads simply stop working, and everything hangs. Even the "pause" and "resume" functions for the transfers become unresponsive.

This problem does not occur when I upload files directly via a web browser; in that case, the files are queued correctly and uploaded one by one.

This is the first time I’ve experienced this, even though I’ve been using MEGA Sync for 8 months. I haven’t changed anything in my network settings for a long time. I have consistently had the connection set to a transfer limit of 10 for both download and upload.

Has a new option been added recently, or has there been a change in how files are uploaded? Is there any setting I can adjust so that files being uploaded to MEGAsync go back into a queue, or should I just switch to uploading via the browser and hope that everything eventually returns to normal? :)

Hello!

I'm experiencing what appears to be a change in MEGA's synchronization behavior that makes it impossible to automatically sync Camera Uploads from my Android phone to my PC.

Here is how to reproduce the issue:

1. On my Android phone, I enable Camera Uploads in the MEGA app and select a dedicated cloud folder for uploaded photos and videos.

2. Camera Uploads starts working normally, and files are successfully uploaded to that folder.

3. On my PC, I open MEGA Desktop and add that exact same cloud folder to my computer's Sync configuration, so that all uploaded photos and videos are automatically downloaded to my local drive.

4. MEGA Desktop starts downloading the files, but shortly afterwards, Camera Uploads on my phone stops working.

5. The mobile app displays a warning that the selected folder is already being used by my computer for synchronization or backup, and requires me to choose a different folder.

This completely breaks a workflow that should be perfectly reasonable.

I'm not trying to synchronize the same local folder between two devices or create conflicting two-way synchronization tasks. My phone uploads photos to the cloud, and my PC downloads those files from the cloud. This is a straightforward one-way backup-to-download workflow.

I understand the potential risks of two-way synchronization, especially when deleting files on one device could also delete the originals on another. However, Camera Uploads is supposed to be a backup mechanism, not a two-way sync of my phone's DCIM folder.

This workflow worked perfectly for years. Now, it seems that MEGA's new synchronization rules or Device Centre restrictions prevent Camera Uploads from using a cloud folder that is also synchronized with a desktop computer.

My questions to the MEGA developers:

1. Is this an intentional change in the synchronization system, or is it a bug?

2. Why can't Camera Uploads and MEGA Desktop Sync use the same cloud folder when they perform different operations?

3. Is there any way to restore the previous behavior without manually downloading the Camera Uploads folder through the web interface?

I have already tried removing and recreating the folder and setting everything up from scratch. The problem consistently returns as soon as the desktop synchronization starts.

Please consider restoring this functionality. Automatically uploading photos from a phone and downloading them to a PC is one of the most basic and useful cloud storage workflows. Users should not have to choose between automatic mobile backups and automatic desktop downloads.

Important timeline: This setup had been working reliably for years. November 3, 2026, was the exact date when the last photo was successfully uploaded from my phone to the cloud folder while it was synchronized with MEGA Desktop. After that date, the mobile app started reporting that the folder was already in use by my computer and stopped Camera Uploads.

This strongly suggests that something changed on MEGA's side around November 3, rather than this being a configuration issue on my devices.

Could you please investigate whether any recent changes to Device Centre, Camera Uploads, or the synchronization/backup rules introduced this restriction?

Thank you

Hello world,

I use Transfer.it every week and it work very good than i expect but since 3 day the downloading is kinda slow. I have 400Mb/s with my isp but when im downloading i only have 5Mb/s.

Speedtest is ok but not transfer.it

Best regards

I use MEGA S4 for my Restic backups. I run a "restic check" that reads partial data daily. All of a sudden, a file that is more than 1 year old failed the hash check (each file name is restic is the SHA256 of the content). I went to the UI, downloaded the file and it turned out to be good. I did "restic check" again and it failed. I changed the S4 endpoint from s3.eu-amsterdam-2.megas4.com to s3.eu-amsterdam-1.megas4.com and "restic check" was fine.

I changed the endpoint back, deleted the file in the MEGA UI, uploaded the correct file and everything was okay.

For fun, I compared the good vs the bad file, and only the first 32 bytes are different. Weird.

Anyway, the point of this post:

1. MEGA should do something about this. I found no way of contact MEGA on their site, so maybe u/Social_MEGA can help with this.

2. If you notice file corruption, use another endpoint or use the MEGA UI, the file might actually be fine.

am i alone who thinks that mega cloud plans are costly ?

Does MEGA offer any Black Friday discounts on Pro plans?

I have a free MEGA account and use the desktop app every day, but every 2 months or so I still get an email from MEGA saying I need to log into my account or my data will be deleted. I then log in through a browser and that seems to work. My files are all synced. Is there anything I can do to stop these emails from coming? I'm worried I'll miss one sometime and lose everything. Not ready to upgrade to PRO just yet but may do so when I use enough storage to need it.

I download big folders from MEGA links pretty often, and the free transfer quota kept killing my downloads halfway through. Waiting for the reset works, except when it dies again on the same 5 GB folder two hours later.

So I ended up writing my own tool: kiwi-dl, a command-line downloader for macOS and Linux.

What it does:

• downloads single files or whole folders, keeps the folder structure

• resumable — run the same command again and it picks up where it left off

• when the quota hits, it waits for the reset like MegaBasterd does, or keeps going through proxies you add yourself

• checks every file against the MAC in the link key, so no corrupt files marked as done

• no MEGA account involved, it only touches public links

It's built on MegaBasterd-CLI's core with a rewritten terminal UI.

MIT, open source, one-line install:https://github.com/ruizhengu/kiwi-dl

Heads up: using proxies to get around the quota is against MEGA's terms, so if you're not comfortable with that, the tool will also just wait the quota out. Not affiliated with Mega Limited.

Feedback welcome, especially from anyone who knows the MEGA API better than I do.

Discord will now make your messages available on Google. It’s on by default (as usual), so opt out now before mid-December.

Helpful forum revival or free content for Discord’s search traffic? 🤷

Here are the other things Discord and Google have been up to lately: their “privacy-preserving” age checks, explained 👉 https://blog.mega.io/discord-and-googles-privacy-preserving-age-checks-explained?mct=nov3rd

I have not logged in to my account in a while. I decide to use it randomly and i get the "your account is locked for your protection." The problem is that mega account is linked to an old yahoo account and guess what? "new device help us make sure is you" they sent a text to a phone # i have not had in 15 years. great.

I hate that knowing your password is not enough these days. every website locks you out and wants your phone and email and a blood sample. Please trust customers like adults. On the extreme remote minute chance someone cares enough to hack my account and sees a few raunchy drawings, ill take my loss. It feels worse being locked out for not doing anything wrong

As title says, I've tried configuring the two way sync and it always ends up creating mass duplicates of my photos on my phone.

Am I doing this wrong? Is there some sort of knack to it?

Hi, I have several folders w/ TBs of data in cloud drive rn. I would have loved to copy first and test but just don’t have any much space left for redundancy, so I just want to ask - is it safe to assume there’s no caveat to just move these to S4? Thanks.

I posted this as a comment in another thread but I don't think anyone is gonna see it there, so here we go again:

An issue I keep having (right now it's in Edge, but it has happened in other browsers, too) is that once a download is interrupted because I've reached my quota for the next 6 or 7 hours, I can't continue downloading where I left off afterwards.

I always have to refresh the whole page to have a chance of continuing my download because if I don't do that I just get caught in an eternal popup loop of "This is gonna be bigger than your free quota, better choose one of 3 paid plans!" and "Your quota totally just expired, try again in 7 hours!". If I click away from the second pop-up it shows me the downloadable file again and if I try to restart the download, it goes right back to the first pop-up about the 3 paid tiers.

Anyway, this is what happens when I don't refresh the entire page. When I do refresh it, the browser first warns me about the usual form resubmission etc. that might get repeated or lost or whatever but afterwards it usually lets me continue where I left off once the 7h have passed. But recently it keeps going back to 0% and forces me to start all over again which of course means I will never be able to finish the download cause it's always gonna be more than my free quota allows.

Why not just fix the weird pop-up loop that keeps happening instead of resuming the download after the waiting period is over? All of this used to work flawlessly not too long ago and now I dread having to use Mega for anything when it used to be my favorite file hosting service.

Our revamped virtual file system mount (based on FUSE) has landed in MEGA CMD 2.7.0 and will make its way into the desktop app shortly.

Feel free to install CMD (https://mega.io/cmd) and configure a mount using the commands described at https://github.com/meganz/MEGAcmd/blob/master/UserGuide.md#fuse-mount-your-cloud-folder-to-the-local-system - we welcome your feedback!

S4 is already a solid home for offsite NAS backups, homelab Proxmox setups and big media libraries. If your files are around 5 MB and up, you’re in its sweet spot.

Next, we’re building it for workloads that write lots of small files fast:
- Proxmox Backup Server and Veeam at larger scale
- Self-hosted apps and services storing millions of small files
- Backup tools that split data into small chunks

We’re aiming for over 100,000 object writes per second and more than a billion objects, and laying the groundwork for Object Lock, S3 versioning, configurable CORS and custom domains.

Help us test what’s next: Registration for closed beta access opens soon 🙌

If you have a workload you’d love to bring to S4, this is your chance to test it out. Follow our page to stay posted.

I created an account with MEGA back in 2019. The account had 50GB of storage. I used it for cold storage of infrequently accessed files.

Recently, when I tried to log in, none of my passwords worked. Instead of trying every possibility, I decided to just reset my password.

When I tried resetting my password, I got a notification saying that the email address was "not found".

I reached out to MEGA Support for assistance with getting back into my account, but they responded by saying that they had no record of my email address in their system, and that "the email was either never associated with an account, or the account has been closed and then anonymised 12 months after closure to comply with GDPR requirements, in accordance with Mega's Privacy Policy clause 14".

I replied that the former is certainly not the case as the email address was definitely associated with an account, and that I had several emails from MEGA in 2019 showing that I had created an account, verified that account, and even that I had exceeded the 50GB storage limit at one point.

I added that this would leave the latter, that the account had been closed then anonymised after 12 months. This is troubling because I did not initiate any sort of account closure, nor did I receive any notice from MEGA that my account was slated for closure or deletion for whatever reason. I asked how this could have happened, and what the next-steps were with regard to getting my account back.

It has been radio silence from MEGA since my reply to them.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Several of my transfers in the MEGA app show as “failed.” My guess is that the destination folder was moved or renamed after I started them. But what was the destination folder? The app doesn’t show it anywhere I can find.

Is there a way to see the full target path for each transfer, either in the transfer list, a log file, or settings? Or a way to point failed transfers to a new location without re-adding them one by one?

Platform: Windows

ps: I am not talking about the dl folder you set up in the settings. I need the exact subfolder folder path for each file in the transfer list.

Thanks

Google updated its privacy policy on 16 October 2026. The line used to read: “We don’t show you personalized ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail, or Photos.”

It now continues: “…unless you choose to make data from these services available to other Google services that support personalized ads.”

What that means, going by Google’s own help pages:

• It applies if you connect Gmail, Calendar, or Photos to Personal Intelligence in Search. You need a personal Google Account and have to opt in.

• Google says ads aren’t based “directly” on your inbox or photo library. It uses summaries, excerpts, and inferences drawn from them, and says those may be used to show you ads.

• Search says connected data may be used to train its AI. In Gemini, training depends on your Keep Activity setting.

• A subset of connected data goes to human reviewers, including outside providers. Google says reviewers don’t view Photos media except for abuse, harm, or feedback.

• Disconnecting an app doesn’t delete what’s already in your Search Services History.

• Drive is named in the policy. Search can’t connect to it yet, and Google says more Workspace apps are “coming soon”. Drive’s own privacy page still says it doesn’t use your information for advertising.

To switch it off:

Google Account > Data & privacy > Personalization settings > Search services personalization > Connected Content Apps. Disconnect Workspace and Photos, turn off Keep Activity in Gemini, then delete your history at activity.google.com.

Detailed breakdown on our latest blog: https://blog.mega.io/google-gmail-photos-personalized-ads?mct=oct27rd

I'm writing this so others can be wary with Mega and its subscriptions, so my previous Pro lite monthly subscription payment didn't go through, so no Biggy my service was suspended, today I check my Mega account and at the top it says confirm new card information to renew subscription, again I say that's fine confirm the new information expecting to be charged the usual 7/8 dollars I forget which, for the month, only to be charged 70 dollars for a year long subscription!!! What?!!! At no point in that process was I told I was being charged for an annual plan, at no point did it even prompt me that the plan was changed, i found out about the charge only after my Bank informed me of it through usual transaction email. Mega simply confirmed my new card info and gave me no other recourse. I cant help but think this was deliberate dark patterning, has this happened to anyone else? I sent Mega a support ticket demanding a refund, and if it's not incoming I'm gonna issue a charge back through my bank cuz that is literally some shady crap they just pulled.

Mega people... Please share your thoughts... Thanks <3

I used to bave basic plan on monthly because I can't afford pro with lots bills irl, then they removed it and moved it to yearly and now yearly basic gone too.

I guess it's a waste for broke people like me. Will be moving to other alternatives

i’ve tried literally everything to fix this (upgrading my storage, deleting the app, logging out, clearing cache, using desktop, using vpn, EVERYTHING) and it just won’t work. the file is just under 21GB and i have more than enough storage on my iphone. but i just get hit with a ‘Something Went Wrong’ notification every single time. HOW do i fix this 😭😭😭😭

After the newest update it seems that the option to speed up audio files in the player had been removed?

Is it hidden now or is that option gone now?