iCloud
Store email, contacts, calendars, photos, music, books, apps and more in the cloud and access them on all your devices. iCloud also provides collaborative services for task management and notes and productivity apps for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- iPhone
- iPad
Features
- Two-factor Authentication
- End-to-End Encryption
- Shared Folders
- Real time collaboration
- Cloud Sync
- File Sync
- Personal Information Manager (PIM)
iCloud News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about Apple Mail
Apple plans Hide My Email domain change that could make anonymous signups easier to blockApple has announced that it will soon modify how Hide My Email, its email aliasing feature for iClo...
- Maoholguin published news article about iCloud
The UK reissues demand for Apple to unlock encrypted iCloud data of British citizensOnly a couple of months after it became known that the UK government had dropped its controversial ...
- Maoholguin published news article about iCloud
UK drops its controversial backdoor mandate into Apple encryption after US pushbackThe UK has withdrawn its request for Apple to create a backdoor for encrypted iCloud data, a mandat...
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What is iCloud?
Store email, contacts, calendars, photos, music, books, apps and more in the cloud and access them on all your devices. iCloud also provides collaborative services for task management and notes and productivity apps for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. iOS and iPad OS devices can use iCloud to automatically create backups.
iCloud information
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Apple Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $1 and $10 per month + free version with limited functionality.Rating
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Comments and Reviews
The integration into the Apple platform is the main reason to use iCloud and where it really plays out its advantages over alternatives. I only have faint memories of the support on Windows which is much more restricted. iCloud is not just a storage space but a central for a lot of services used on Apple devices. The file system integration on macOS and iOS is a completely different thing than traditional synchronization folders.
While their default free 5 GB is like nothing, their add-on prices are acceptable. A buck monthly for 50 GB storage space.
Too bad that it's not E2E encrypted, so Apple can see all content. Also Apple works with authorities, so if we count 1+1 together....
If privacy is the top priority a self-hosted service like Nextcloud with end-to-end encryption on the client side is a better choice.
Too pricey compared to competitors. No E2E encryption.
Although I like iCloud because it allows me to see files across Apple devices, it's not very friendly directly on the Mac, and totally ignores Windows and Linux devices. Accessing iCloud via a browser is a joke. You can only download one file at a time. Not directories. On the MacBook Pro, Apple has gone the way of Microsoft - burying your files under obscure directories under ~/Library/MobileStorage/com~apple~CloudDocs. I've always been used to keeping my Documents, Pictures, Videos, Desktop, etc. right in my home directory. This is not acceptable to me because I can't always remember that long directory path to get to my files on my own computer. And if I move the directories, bye-bye iCloud sync.
iCloud Drive appears right in the sidebar of Finder and the menu. It is a top-level navigation item. Maybe the visibility is not enabled in the Finder side bar preferences. There is absolutely no need to navigate to the mentioned path.