Am I missing something, or must I designate an email app to run Mozilla’s iPhone-syncing app? I’m one of the many who DON’T use iCloud! As soon as I put Firefox for iOS on my phone, I had to list “my” email account, which Mozilla assumed meant I’d want everything synced to my iCloud holdings. But iCloud kills photos that are no longer on the native device, etc., making iCloud the world’s worst photo-backup system. If you want a picture in iCloud, you have to leave it on your phone, tablet or camera forever: what kind of “Cloud backup” is that? What Apple really wants is for everybody to buy extra, permanent iCloud storage; it’s nuts! ... The moment I admitted I use Gmail, Google Assistant was invaded and screwed up every corner of my online life. It’s wiped literally hundreds of new contacts and photos from my iPhone in this latest “helpful” sync. ... Other platforms, of course, simply ensure that everyone has a copy of whatever their coworkers/allies/partners have: that’s how they handle backups to the Cloud. As if that weren’t bad enough, Apple builds a poison pill into every contact. If you back up iPhone contacts to anything besides iCloud or an Apple device, the code on each VCF contact file is indecipherable. ... That means, basically, that you have to unzipping, launch, and manually copy and paste back in all your contacts. (Ot you can buy one of certain translator apps, and batch-transfer a series of sets.) ... Plus, with Google Assistant staring over my shoulder day and night, I’m stuck converting other people’s Word documents, etc. to Google Docs — which nobody else can open, either, unless they, too, let stupid Google Docs into their phones! It’s nuts. I hate the way Firefox iOS and apps like Dropbox are in bed with Google: everybody’s iPhones are syncing and, often, wiping out useful data — the first chance they get. ... Adding insult to injury, anything produced in Gmail becomes Google’s work product — THEIR property, not yours. So, while I still use Gmail, I can’t see trying to do that it on Firefox for iOS. I’m already backing up contacts, photos, etc. to a third-party secure server (which I access via subscription), plus backups via Cobra, the plug-in thumb drive compatible with iPhones. I guess I have to resign myself to keying in passwords on Firefox 24/7, and handling all my own backups.