Despite Apple’s best wishes, you don’t need to use i. Cloud on your i, phone, i Pad, or Mac. Although most people are happy to use the service, some prefer to keep their data stored locally, away from Apple’s servers. In this article, we’ll explain how to disable or turn off i. Cloud on your i. Phone or Mac.
One of the next things we wondered was; what happens if I Turn Off iCloud Drive?
, i Cloud Drive is a storage service provided by Apple within your i, and cloud account. You can manually store and access maps and files on it. Disabling it only stops you from accessing and editing those folders and files. Annie_M likes this. What will happen if I turn the i. Cloud Drive off on my i, and phone?
How do I use iCloud Drive on my iPhone?
When you use i. Cloud Drive, your documents are available from i, phone, i, pad, i Pod touch, Mac, or Windows PC. You can use the Files app, Finder, File Explorer, or visit the i. Cloud website from any Internet browser. You need to have turned on i. Cloud Drive, using the instructions above, before you can access your documents.
, how i Cloud Drive works You can store documents, images and spreadsheets using i. Cloud Drive; you can also keep files and folders up-to-date across devices, work on them, and access these items from anywhere., on i OS devices, you access your i. Cloud Drive through the Files app. Open Files and you’ll find i. Cloud Drive as a location.
You don’t need to use i. Cloud Drive, it’s an optional feature like all of i, and cloud’s services. When it’s turned off, all your documents are stored locally on the device. Which means they’re always available, even without an Internet connection.
One more question we ran across in our research was “What is the difference between files and iCloud Drive?”.
The most common answer is; the Files app offers more functionality than i. Cloud Drive used to. In particular, with Files, you can sync all your cloud storage services in one place: Google Drive, Dropbox, i. Cloud Drive, and others! Why can’t I see my documents in i, and cloud drive?
I learned, i Cloud Drive FAQ., i Cloud Drive lets you securely access all of your documents from your i, phone, i, pad, i Pod touch, Mac, and Windows PC. So no matter which device you’re using, you always have the most up to date documents when you need them. Keep files and folders up to date across all of your devices.
How many files can I store in iCloud Drive?
You can store files * in i. Cloud Drive as long as they’re 50GB or less in size and you don’t exceed your i. Cloud storage limit. If you need more i. Cloud storage, you can upgrade to i, and cloud+ .