GO FURTHER WITH iCLOUD
Apple’s iCloud connects all your devices and makes amazing things possible. Here’s everything you need to know
Written by Carrie Marshall
Apple’s online adventures haven’t always been brilliant. There’s a famous story about Steve Jobs being reduced to foul-mouthed firing-people fury over the half-baked launch of MobileMe back in 2008. But while the road to today’s iCloud may have been a rocky one, there’s no denying that today’s Apple is so much better at delivering online services than it was back in Steve Jobs’ day. The iCloud family is packed with genuinely useful features and services that make your Apple devices more flexible, more useful and more fun.
So what is iCloud? As we’ll discover in this feature, it’s a little bit of everything: a mix of cloud storage and cloud-based services designed to make your Apple experience even better. It’s a place to store your stuff, and a way to share it with other people. It’s a way to bring all your Apple devices together, and to connect family members together. It enables you to locate lost devices, and to ensure you never lose an important document.