I have an iPhone 4S and a new MacBook Air and I truthfully don't understand iCloud. I have hundreds of .doc and .pdf files on my laptop, how would I go about accessing these on my iPhone through iCloud? Same with photos I have stored on my laptop. Or is that not what iCloud is for-- am I missing something? I was under the impression that the point of iCloud was to link all your Apple devices.
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Can someone explain iCloud to me?
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You can get detailed explanations about iCloud on Apple's site:
Apple - iCloud - Your content. On all your devices.
Creating an iCloud account: Frequently Asked Questions
iCloud: Photo Stream FAQ
iCloud: Documents in the Cloud
etc.
Apple - iCloud - Your content. On all your devices.
Creating an iCloud account: Frequently Asked Questions
iCloud: Photo Stream FAQ
iCloud: Documents in the Cloud
etc.
I just checked that out. I'm more interested in how I would access all of my .doc and .pdf files that are on my laptop from my iPhone using iCloud.
I agree. Dropbox is an excellent tool for selectively sharing documents between devices.
Well, they're working on it.
In Mountain Lion, "Documents in the Cloud" is more feature complete. For example, you can upload .Doc, .PDF, etc files that will open in Preview from iCloud.
The biggest problem for me is you can't access those same files via iOS since Preview.app doesn't exist. One would think Apple would allow apps like Good Reader to access those type of files, and that might be coming in iOS 6. I'm not for sure.