“iCloud Documents and Data” now migrated to iCloud Drive

In backing noteApple announces the discontinuation of the service iCloud documents and datareplaced by iCloud Drive.

In May 2022, iCloud Documents and Data, our former document synchronization service, will be discontinued and replaced entirely by iCloud Drive. If you use iCloud Documents and Data, your account will be migrated to iCloud Drive after this date.

For most of you, who didn’t know Apple until after 2014 or who have already activated iCloud Drive (at a glance, 99% of seasoned Apple users), the change will be transparent. The changeover with took place at the time of iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, so we are talking about a time that those under 20 cannot know (or just).

For those who would have been stuck 8 years ago, here is the procedure:

On iOS or iPadOS
• Go to Settings > [votre nom].
• Touch iCloud.
• Enable iCloud Drive.
• Your files are in the Files app.

Under macOS :

• Go to Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Apple ID. If you’re using macOS Mojave or earlier, you don’t need to click Apple ID.
• Select iCloud.
• If necessary, sign in using your Apple ID.
• Select iCloud Drive.
•Your files are in the Finder under iCloud.

On iCloud.com
• Sign in to iCloud.com.
• Select Pages, Numbers, Keynote, or iCloud Drive.
• Click Upgrade to iCloud Drive.
• You can find your files on iCloud.com in iCloud Drive.

As a reminder, Apple offers 5GB (only) on iCloud, but it’s enough to synchronize your contacts and some application documents – however, you will have to subscribe to a subscription for photo/video use, for example…