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Set up iCloud Drive

If you didn’t set up iCloud Drive when you installed iOS 9, you can set it up in Settings. iCloud Drive is an upgrade to Documents & Data. When you upgrade to iCloud Drive, your documents are copied to iCloud Drive and become available on your devices using iCloud Drive. You won’t be able to access the documents stored in iCloud Drive on your other devices until they are also upgraded to iOS 8 or later, or OS X Yosemite or later. For more information about upgrading to iCloud Drive, see support.apple.com/HT201104.

Set up iCloud Drive. Go to Settings > iCloud > iCloud Drive, turn on iCloud Drive, then follow the onscreen instructions.

Show iCloud Drive on your Home screen. Go to Settings > iCloud > iCloud Drive, then turn on Show on Home Screen.

iCloud Drive folders for apps and projects. Icons for individual documents are below

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[ NOTE - to turn ON iCloud Drive, visit System Preferences, iCloud, turn ON, click to see details - turn on file types to save on iCloud Drive ]

OS X Yosemite: What is iCloud Drive?

iCloud Drive stores your presentations, spreadsheets, PDFs, images, and other kinds of documents in iCloud so you can access these documents from any of your devices set up for iCloud Drive. It allows your apps to share documents so you can work on the same file across multiple apps.

Mac apps that support iCloud Drive include the Finder, TextEdit, Preview, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iMovie, GarageBand, QuickTime Player, and some third-party apps. The Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and iCloud Drive apps on iCloud.com also support iCloud Drive, and you can use them from a web browser on any Mac or Windows computer.

iCloud Drive also stores data for Mac apps, and it keeps the data up to date across your other devices set up for iCloud Drive. For example, Safari uses iCloud Drive to store your bookmarks, Reading List, and iCloud Tabs list of webpages open on your other devices. Mail uses iCloud Drive to keep your rules, signatures, flag names, and Smart Mailboxes up to date on your Mac computers that have iCloud Drive turned on. Mail also uses iCloud Drive to keep your VIPs and Previous Recipients list the same on your Mac computers (with OS X v10.8 or later) and iOS devices (with iOS 6 or later) that have iCloud Mail and Contacts turned on.

Important: If you have devices set up for Documents & Data before you upgrade to iCloud Drive, your documents and data stored in iCloud are copied to iCloud Drive when you upgrade. Those documents and data are then available on all your devices with iCloud Drive turned on.

Your Mac computers must have OS X Yosemite, iOS devices must have iOS 8, and Windows computers must have iCloud for Windows 4.0 (Windows 7 or later required). Your computers and devices must be signed in to iCloud with your Apple ID. If you don’t turn on iCloud Drive on a device, the documents and data on that device aren’t kept up to date with the documents and data on your other devices that have iCloud Drive turned on.

For information about using iCloud Drive on your iOS device, see the user guide for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. For information about using iCloud Drive on your Windows computer, see iCloud Help.

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Modified on: Fri, 20 Nov, 2015 9:44 AM

Set up iCloud Drive

OS X Yosemite: What is iCloud Drive?

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