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. Then, Mozilla took that to mean I wanted Google Assistant to take over my life. Assistant promptly replaced my contacts with a set from four years ago, wiping out hundreds, along with erasing hundreds of photos from iCloud. ... It kills photos when they leave their native device, which makes it the world’s worst photo-backup system. What kind of “Cloud backup” is that? To keep a picture in iCloud, I have to leave it on my phone, tablet or camera forever. The fact is, this is how Apple sells everybody extra, permanent iCloud storage. ... When other platforms “sync” multiple accounts, of course, they make each element accessible to all. And as if Apple’s method weren’t bad enough, there’s a poison pill. If you back up iPhone contacts to anything besides the iCloud or an Apple device, each contact’s VCF gets scrambled. Then, basically, you have to unzip, then manually copy and paste back in, all your contacts. (Or buy a translator app, and batch-transfer a series of sets.) ... Now, 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 unless they, too, let Google Docs into their phones. Plus iPhones are so buggy there are endless “updates.” Besides the counterproductive interface morphs, a host of default settings need to be manually undone. Otherwise their constant, intrusive reports drain the battery unseen.) The topper? Anything created in Gmail becomes Google’s work product. ... 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.