Your iCloud Drive on the Web will have the same files and folders synced to all your devices. It’s also the web-based home for Find Friends and the Find iPhone services. Yup, that’s really it! Here, you can manage your calendar, desktop, Photos, email, reminders, notes, contacts, as well as Apple apps like Keynote, Numbers, and Pages. If you’d rather manage your iCloud files online, any browser will do! It’s a handy backup for those times you may be away from home and need to use a desktop, or if a file won’t sync to your other devices. ICloud is also accessible via the browser.

It’s an app that allows you to manage your Mac’s files and folders on a consistent schedule, and can let you know when your iCloud is getting overly full of old documents or other files. One great method for keeping iCloud trimmed down is to use CleanMyMac X. If you take a lot of pics and don’t manage them later on, it’s eating into your data cap for iCloud.

Keep in mind the Photos app also uses iCloud for storage. This can be because you’re not aware iCloud is accessing your documents and desktop on Mac your Mac might have a terabyte of storage, but chances are your iCloud account doesn’t. You may store files in it without thinking about how full it’s getting. If you want to view or edit documents on an iPad or iPhone, it’s important to have this option selected.īecause iCloud Drive is still treated as a sort of storage container by most (including Apple), it’s easy for your iCloud storage to get full. This allows your documents to be viewable and editable on all of your Apple devices. By default, iCloud Drive on Mac has access to all your apps, as well as your iCloud desktop and documents folders on the Mac. This will make your iCloud Drive storage appear in Finder.

Make sure the ‘iCloud Drive’ box is checked.

In the top left of your screen, in the menu bar, select the Apple icon.

When you’re on your Mac, follow these instructions to add iCloud to your Finder: Try free ✕ How to access your iCloud drive using Finder

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