Apple issues an apology for incorrectly notifying some US users about shifting their iCloud data to China

**Apple** , which announced its first data centre in China will be operational from February, mistakenly sent a notice to some of the US users saying their iCloud data is being migrated to the servers in the Asian country. [caption id=“attachment_4034243” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] People standing in front of an Apple logo. Reuters[/caption] The Cupertino-based Apple has now apologised. In an email obtained by TechCrunch, the company said: “We are very sorry that you received this email. This email was intended only for customers whose Apple ID country is China. A very small number of our customers whose Apple ID country is not China also received this email by mistake”. In a move to increase transparency and make inroads into China, the first data centre of the Cupertino-based tech giant **Apple in China** will be put into operation on 28 February. From then on, photos, documents and other personal information uploaded to iCloud accounts by Apple customers in China will be stored at a data base in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Xinhua news agency reported. The move is aiming to increase transparency and offer Chinese customers a safer and more fluent experience of iCloud, the company was quoted as saying. Apple announced the constructing of the new data base in Guizhou last July, with an investment of $1 billion. Apple’s gets most of its products manufactured in China and also sources its best electronics engineers from the there.