With (a paltry) 5GB free storage made available to every user, additional iCloud storage is available on a subscription basis, and also in both Apple One and Apple Business Essentials. When you switch to iCloud Drive, the amount of storage space your saved files use in iCloud doesn't change.” Why it (may) matter to your business “If you used the iCloud Documents and Data service, you need to turn on iCloud Drive to see your files. Upgrading to iCloud Drive does not change the storage space used by your files saved in iCloud.”

“If you use the iCloud Documents and Data service, you must activate iCloud Drive by following the steps below to view your files. Therefore, if you use iCloud Documents and Data, your account will be migrated to iCloud Drive after that date. “In May 2022, the iCloud Documents and Data service, our former document synchronization service, will be interrupted and completely replaced by iCloud Drive. In a statement last year, Apple explained its plans: In conjunction with other recent changes in iCloud as reflected by new iterations of OneDrive, Dropbox, and Box, all of which required different APIs, these moves may hint at foundational changes as the company seeks to evolve its service. The file location and management experience on Files is much better, because it's both obvious and understandable.

The previous implementation wasn’t always immediately obvious. The great advantage of the move is that users get a far more unified experience with iCloud Drive across all devices, using Files on iOS/iPadOS and Finder integration for iCloud Drive on Macs. The company announced its plan to do this in May 2021. Apple this month discontinued Documents and Data, transitioning all data stored in it to iCloud Drive. What exactly is happening to iCloud Documents & Data?Īpple’s iCloud Documents and Data aimed to sync data from different apps to make it available across all your devices. If you use iCloud Documents and Data on a system that supports the newer online storage system, you will need to enable iCloud Drive to see your files in iCloud. This should not represent a large number of users, so eight years since the release of the former and nine since the last non-compatible Mac OS shipped, Apple clearly thinks the time is right to disable such access - as it last year warned it would.

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