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Apple Adds 9 New Features to iCloud Website

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Apple today updated its iCloud.com website, which is the way you can access your iCloud apps and settings from any web browser. With today's refresh, iCloud.com supports some of the features that have previously been introduced in iOS.

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There's now a Dark Mode option that will match your Mac's Light Mode or Dark Mode color scheme, plus a customizable homepage where you can select different colors for your background.

There's support for pinned notes, improved navigation in the Photos app, and a Shared View for iCloud Drive. Apple has a full list of what's new when you log into iCloud.com. Here's the list:
  • Dark Mode
  • Customizable background
  • A refreshed design for the Calendar app and support for Hijri calendar.
  • Shared View for iCloud Drive that shows files that have been shared with you.
  • Option to jump to a month or year in Photos by clicking the calendar icon.
  • Option to modify date, time, and location of a photo from the info pane.
  • Option to display an album in the Photos tile on the iCloud.com homepage.
  • Important notes can be pinned to the top of the list in the iCloud Notes app.
  • In Reminders, new lists can be created and recurring reminders can be completed.
These new iCloud.com options should be available for all users as of now.

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Not mentioned anywhere, but Notes with Math now appear on the web, they did not until now

With content like this

item A = 1
item B = 2
item A + item B = 3

The problem now is that if you edit any number on the web, it does not compute, nothing happens on the math part.
 
Album view pretty much still completely useless for users with the shared library feature... what a joke.
 
Notes now does display all content made in iOS 18 and Sequoia, but you can't add or edit things like Math Notes, images, voice notes, or PDFs. I guess this is useful if you want access your notes on a Windows laptop.
 
This is handy. I still use iCloud.com to set up rules for Mail. Still easier than trying to do it on the phone (especially since you can’t select a message and then make a rule from it like you can online and on desktop).
 
nutmac said:
Good job for the web team, but I wish iCloud would offer flexible pricing -- $4.99/month per 1 TB.

While at it, increase the video quality of HomeKit Secure Video recording.
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I really hope I'm somehow wrong but I don't think Apple is ever going to improve iCloud storage tiers. They've already got way too many people paying for way more storage than they need, which works out very well for Apple.

The fact that they recently did update the tiers but only to add even more, higher end ones tells me that they know exactly what they are doing.

Now that they are a services first company that sells cameras that make lots of high quality pictures (and sometimes phone calls) they have no reason to cut into one of their most profitable products.
 
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Yeah nice, just wanted to point out that Dark Mode came to iOS in 2018 with iOS 13.

So, waiting 6 years to finally have it on the web version... Well nice but a bit late.
 
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Authorization notifications to use iCloud on the web were never reliable for me.

Also, new features are always great, but Safari on iOS is so damn buggy they really need to tighten up the basics.
 
iCloud.com is so basic/archaic that I'm in shock Apple is not embarrassed by it. I cannot believe that towards the end of 2024, over a decade after launching the website and the reminders app, it cannot do basic functionality in the web such as being able to sort reminders. Inexcusable. And don't get me started with Mail on the web.
 
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javisan said:
iCloud.com is so basic/archaic that I'm in shock Apple is not embarrassed by it. I cannot believe that towards the end of 2024, over a decade after launching the website and the reminders app, it cannot do basic functionality in the web such as being able to sort reminders. Inexcusable. And don't get me started with Mail on the web.
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The thing is, it’s not meant to be at feature parity with the macOS, iOS, and iPadOS apps. It’s meant to be a fallback if you ever have to access something on e.g. a Windows PC. It’s not meant to be a replacement for the native apps, and it will likely never be at feature parity with the native versions of the apps.
 
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What Apple needs is to protect Calendars, Contacts and Mail. Those are the only ones without E3EE.
 
For a second, I got unexplainably excited by customize background, and then I discovered it is just a case of pick one of a handful of colours, black not included.
 
Evelyn Harthbrooke said:
The thing is, it’s not meant to be at feature parity with the macOS, iOS, and iPadOS apps. It’s meant to be a fallback if you ever have to access something on e.g. a Windows PC. It’s not meant to be a replacement for the native apps, and it will likely never be at feature parity with the native versions of the apps.
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I don't expect full parity, but many things are so basic, that they are not useful at all as a fallback. At least to me.
 
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