Fix up and use iCloud for Windows

With iCloud for Windows, the photos, documents, and bookmarks on your PC are updated automatically on your Apple tree devices.

Before you begin

Make certain that you set upward iCloud on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or Mac and that you lot're signed in with your Apple ID. So follow the steps beneath to download and set iCloud for Windows.

Want to access iCloud's latest features? See the recommended system requirements. iCloud requires an Internet connection. iCloud might not be available in all areas and features vary. If you use a Managed Apple ID, iCloud for Windows isn't supported.

Fix upward iCloud for Windows

  1. Download iCloud for Windows on your PC.
    • Windows ten or later: Become to the Microsoft Store to download iCloud for Windows.
    • Earlier versions of Windows*: Download iCloud for Windows from apple tree.com.
    • If it doesn't install automatically, go to File Explorer and open iCloud Setup.
  2. Restart your figurer.
  3. Brand certain iCloud for Windows is open up. If information technology doesn't open up automatically, go to Outset, open up Apps or Programs, and open up iCloud for Windows.
  4. Enter your Apple tree ID to sign in to iCloud.
  5. Choose the features and content that you desire to proceed upwards to date across your devices.
  6. Click Utilize.

* Learn how to find out which Windows organisation you use.

Download and share your photos

When you turn on Photos, iCloud for Windows creates a Photos folder in File Explorer chosen iCloud Photos. iCloud Photos uploads new photos and videos that you add together to the iCloud Photos folder on your PC and so yous tin meet them in the Photos app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod affect, and Mac, and on iCloud.com. New photos and videos y'all take automatically download from iCloud Photos.

Share your photos

You can as well share your photos. Shared Albums lets y'all view, share, and comment on the photos and videos you lot share with other people. And if you utilise the latest version of iCloud for Windows, you can pin photos to proceed them local to your device. When you unpin them, they upload to iCloud instead.

Acquire how to set up and use iCloud Photos.

Come across your files and folders with iCloud Bulldoze

When you turn on iCloud Drive, iCloud for Windows creates an iCloud Drive folder in File Explorer. You can find documents that you've stored in iCloud in this folder. When you create a file on your PC and save it to the iCloud Drive folder, information technology also appears on your other devices.

If you want to work on files with friends or colleagues, y'all tin share individual files or create a shared folder to share a group of files. You lot can besides pin files and folders and then you can use them offline, and hands check the status of a download or shared file.

In iCloud for Windows 12 or afterwards, you lot tin can find and recover files deleted from iCloud Drive in the past 30 days in Recently Deleted in iOS, iPadOS, or iCloud.com, in Trash in macOS, and in Recycle Bin in Windows. If you utilize Delete or Delete All in Recently Deleted or empty the Trash in macOS, files aren't recoverable.If you don't see the files you wish to restore, you can recover files deleted within the final xxx days at iCloud.com.

Yous tin as well admission your iCloud Drive files and folders at iCloud.com.

If you receive an error when you try to movement a file from iCloud for Windows, you might need to download the file to your Windows PC. After you download the file, endeavor moving it again.

Go along your apps up to engagement

Salve your passwords across devices

If you utilise two-factor authentication with your Apple ID and own a device running iOS 14 or later, you tin salve important web passwords and go on them upward to date in Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and in Google Chrome or Microsoft Border on your PC. Merely download the iCloud Passwords extension for your web browser, and then employ the iCloud Passwords app to create, access, and manage your passwords.

Learn how to ready iCloud Passwords on your PC.

Manage your iCloud storage usage and business relationship information

Manage your iCloud storage usage

  • To see your available iCloud storage, open iCloud for Windows.
  • To manage your storage, click Storage. Select an app to run into how much storage you're using, or click Buy More Storage to upgrade your storage program.

If y'all utilise iCloud for Windows 10 or later, you can pin files to go along them local to your device. When yous unpin them, they upload to iCloud instead.

Manage your account information

If yous desire to make changes to your Apple tree ID, including updating your electronic mail, mailing address, or other business relationship information, open iCloud for Windows and click Business relationship details. Click Manage Apple ID.

Update your version of iCloud for Windows

In iCloud for Windows x or later:

Go to the Microsoft Shop to bank check for software updates.

In before versions of iCloud for Windows:

To check for updates, open Apple Software Update on your PC. To get notified when an update is available through Apple tree Software Update, choose Edit > Preferences, and select when yous'd like to check for updates. You tin can choose Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Never.

Need more aid? Learn what to do if you tin't download or install iCloud for Windows.

Turn off or uninstall iCloud for Windows

If you turn off a service in iCloud for Windows, your information won't automatically stay upwardly to appointment in iCloud, and yous won't see updates made on your other devices. Follow these steps to plow off a service or iCloud:

  • To turn off a service on your PC, Open iCloud for Windows, then select or deselect that service. To salvage your changes, click Apply.
  • To turn off iCloud for Windows, open iCloud for Windows, then sign out.

If yous want to uninstall iCloud for Windows, retrieve to make a copy of your iCloud data and save it on your PC. And so sign out of iCloud for Windows on your PC, and follow these steps:

Windows 8 or afterward:

  1. Become to the Kickoff screen, right-click in the bottom-left corner or click, so select Control Console.
  2. Click Uninstall a Programme.
  3. Click iCloud > Uninstall.
  4. When asked to confirm, select Yes.

Windows 7:

  1. Choose Start menu > Control Panel.
  2. Click Programs > Programme and Features.
  3. Select iCloud > Uninstall.
  4. Click OK to go along.

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