OK, I have ONLY Calendar, Contacts, Mail and Messages enabled to sync via iCloud on my Mid-2011 iMac (High Sierra), 2015 MBP (Monterey), 2022 M2-MBA (Sequoia) and my iPhone 12 (18.7.2) & iPad Minis 5, 6,& 7 (18.7.3). However, I keep getting nagging notifications that say 2 applications aren’t being synced via iCloud: Maps & Health. I keep dismissing these notifications but they come back the next day. How do I get iCloud to only sync what I have enabled?
Wild guesses here!
First thought is that one or more of your devices has the toggles for Maps and Health in the On position in their Settings. I would suspect the phone and iPads first.
Second thought; is it possible the High Sierra iMac is too old and having incompatibility challenges?
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Well, the four I have enabled sync with the 2011 iMac on High Sierra. Checking the iPads & iPhone, (Settings>iCloud) all had Health disabled, but only the iPad Mini 7 had Maps listed and it was disabled. What is interesting is that all 3 iPads have the same 18.7.3 OS installed but the display and listings in the iCloud settings are formatted differently.
That is not what one would expect, but I hesitate to label it wrong or problematic. Differences in hardware, app usage, presence or lack of user data are all variables at play here.
I am not being pestered about iCloud syncing, though on checking I see a number of “mis-matches” between settings on my Mac vs. iPhone. For example News is On for Mac, Off for iPhone while Notes is Off for Mac, On for iPhone.
There are several apps that do not exist on every device OS — Health, Journal, Wallet, Fitness+, Music Recognition etc. on iPhone but not Mac. And then there are dual instances of some apps like — Calendar / iCloud Calendar, Messages / Messages in iCloud, Photos / iCloud Photos.
The Settings app is a rat’s nest and a rabbit hole that I avoid when possible. Sorry, this is certainly not helpful in resolving your issue 
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Yes, I have a Mini 5, a Mini 6 & a Mini 7 all running 18.7.3. But why the hardware would dictate 3 different screen layouts is perplexing. I do get the same warning in Sequoia on my MBA, but not in Monterey on the MBP, nor in High Sierra on the iMac.
As @Scott5 suggested, there are significant hardware differences between your three iPad minis. It is not unusual for the same OS to have different capabilities on different generations of hardware. For example:
- 5th Gen mini: A12 CPU with 3 GB RAM and 4 Apple GPU cores
- 6th Gen mini: A15 CPU with 4 GB RAM and 5 Apple GPU cores
- “7th Gen” mini: A17 Pro CPU with 8 GB RAM and 5 Apple G16G GPU cores
jose, you are missing the point: I’m NOT talking about CAPABILITY; I’m talking about the UI screen layout. THAT is not dependent on the hardware otherwise the OS would look different on every different iPhone, iPad, Mac, Macbook, etc.
Yes and no. Some interface features may be enabled/visible (or not) depending on the hardware. That said, I guess I don’t understand what you mean by screen layout. If you want to discuss that particular topic further, feel free to share screenshots that show what you mean. If not, maybe we can just skip the subject, which doesn’t seem like it was part of your original question about syncing anyway. Sorry for the diversion.