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Apple Releases iCloud for Windows 13 With Support for ProRes, ProRAW, and Strong Password Generation

Strong password with always only dashes as special chars, one digit and one uppercase letter? I don’t know but I feel like it could be stronger.
Sure it’s still unlikely to guess it right, but still…
 
Man Apple is forward-thinking, windows 12 isn't out in my beta release channel. Where do I grab a copy of this fabled windows 13?
 
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headlessmike said:
Not when the software is called "iCloud for Windows".
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good point but the name on the store isn't "iCloud for Windows" it is just "iCloud", in the description it mentions this version is for windows but that isn't part of the product name..
 

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Lounge vibes 05 said:
If you can’t even figure out what version of iCloud you’re running, that sounds like A problem related to you, not iCloud
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After reading the original headline, I realized I wasn't sure what version of iCloud I was running, and it wasn't immediately obvious how to find out. It turned out I had to look in "Apple Software Update", cancel before the "checking for updates" dialogbox finished (because it would auto-exit otherwise), and hunt around in the pull down menus for a while before I could actually find out.

For me, it turned out I was running 7.21.0 (from 11/16/2020).
In order to upgrade, I had to log out of iCloud on windows, use add-remove to "modify" the installation (and then uninstall from in there), before using the Microsoft Store to install iCloud for Windows.
This process also removes the "Apple Software Update" software, so be careful if you also have iTunes installed (I guess I had already used a similar process to upgrade iTunes using the Microsoft Store).

So, while this is the end users' problem, it is pretty unfriendly that iCloud just stopped updating at some point. I kind of wish it had informed me that "Apple Software Update" was out of date.
 
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fear025 said:
After reading the original headline, I realized I wasn't sure what version of iCloud I was running, and it wasn't immediately obvious how to find out. It turned out I had to look in "Apple Software Update", cancel before the "checking for updates" dialogbox finished (because it would auto-exit otherwise), and hunt around in the pull down menus for a while before I could actually find out.

For me, it turned out I was running 7.21.0 (from 11/16/2020).
In order to upgrade, I had to log out of iCloud on windows, use add-remove to "modify" the installation (and then uninstall from in there), before using the Microsoft Store to install iCloud for Windows.
This process also removes the "Apple Software Update" software, so be careful if you also have iTunes installed (I guess I had already used a similar process to upgrade iTunes using the Microsoft Store).

So, while this is the end users' problem, it is pretty unfriendly that iCloud just stopped updating at some point. I kind of wish it had informed me that "Apple Software Update" was out of date.
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Thank you ?
 
kenbewick said:
good point but the name on the store isn't "iCloud for Windows" it is just "iCloud", in the description it mentions this version is for windows but that isn't part of the product name..
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Touché! Though it seems that the name of the software is not entirely clear (see below). We need answers!
 

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I'm using the last version of iCloud for Windows, version 12.5, on a Windows 11 PC and all is well.

Not updating for a long time.

iCloud for Windows is notoriously buggy/finicky which someone else ^ already mentioned.
 

"Apple Releases iCloud for Windows 13"​


What happened to Windows 11, which was just released, never mind Windows 12?
 
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SpecialSalami said:
Strong password with always only dashes as special chars, one digit and one uppercase letter? I don’t know but I feel like it could be stronger.
Sure it’s still unlikely to guess it right, but still…
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The image shows 18 characters, which is 1.0314424798e+28 possible combinations. It would take more than 23 million years to brute force a random password generated from this set. See the chart here: https://www.komando.com/security-privacy/check-your-password-strength/783192/
 
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So now Photo Stream is gone from iCloud for Windows. That sucks cause I don't use iCloud photos. All my recent photos from Photo Stream on my laptop is gone. Would have been nice to have this mentioned in the article.
 
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Now release Apple Music, so I don't need to use an Android emulator on my Windows machine (though W11's android subsystem works very nicely!).
 
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