This feature is a Dropbox-like feature that allows you to share a folder once, and have everyone see the contents and changes in real time, but it's just one example of functions that get added to iCloud Drive with software updates. The backup part includes iOS devices, and it's often this that sees you reach your limit - especially if you have a lot of photos on, say, an iPhone.
You can even share the GB and 2TB plans with your family. After you upgrade, Apple will bill you monthly. Pricing is as follows:. Note: If you purchased a 1TB monthly plan before June 5, , your account was upgraded automatically to a 2TB monthly plan. As for iCloud. Learn more about system requirements from Apple here. After you set up iCloud Drive, any documents that you've already stored in iCloud will be automatically moved to iCloud Drive.
If you don't see your files for these apps, they might be on a device that doesn't have iCloud Drive turned on - so be sure to enable it across all your devices. You can also find iCloud Drive from the Go menu of any Finder window. But you can create any folder and keep it in iCloud Drive. You can also store whatever you want, so long as it isn't bigger than 50GB and doesn't exceed your iCloud storage allowance. Think of iCloud Drive like any other remote volume, external hard disk, network drive, or storage service.
You can create new folders, drag and drop stuff into your iCloud Drive from your Mac or elsewhere, and you have the option to save files and data from apps into your iCloud Drive. This isn't rocket science, folks. The files that you keep in iCloud Drive use your iCloud storage. And as long as you have enough space in iCloud, you can store as many files as you like.
If you need more space, you can delete files to free up space in iCloud. When you use iCloud Drive and delete a file on one device, it deletes on every device that you're signed in to with the same Apple ID.
You can find deleted files in the Recently Deleted folder in the Files app or on iCloud. After that, they're removed. Learn more about how to manage your iCloud storage.
You can move files from iCloud Drive to your Mac as you need them, or select all of your files and drag them to the place you want to keep them. If you turn off iCloud Drive or sign out of iCloud, a new Desktop and Documents folder is created in your home folder. You also have the option to keep a local copy of your files that are in iCloud Drive. If you keep a local copy of your files in iCloud Drive, they're copied to a folder called iCloud Drive Archive in your home folder. You can move any files that were in your iCloud Desktop and Documents to your new local Desktop and Documents.
The exception for e-mail may be due to performance reasons, including supporting features like searching messages on the server or partially downloading messages and attachments, he writes Notes are also not encrypted on iCloud servers. Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article. Skip to: Latest News. Share Share Tweet Comment Email. Unfortunately, you can't get much in the way of details from this storage overview. It tells you how much space you're using for documents, photos, backups, and other files.
But you can't find out exactly which folders and files are using up your space in the documents section. When you do this, you should see the file size for individual documents listed beneath their names. However, the Files app doesn't tell you how big any folders are. It only tells you how many items are inside, counting sub-folders as a single item without counting the contents of that sub-folder as well. If you have a lot of folders in iCloud Drive, this makes it incredibly time-consuming to find the individual files or folders taking up most of your iCloud storage.
To view folder sizes in iCloud Drive—so you can work out which documents are using all your iCloud storage—you need to use Finder on a Mac.
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