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With iCloud.com, you’re never far from your files

As well as using iCloud services and browsing your iCloud Drive files on your Macs and iOS devices, you can access iCloud in two ways that work with non-Apple products: via iCloud.com and in the iCloud app for Windows. The latter is available for Windows 7 and higher from Apple at bit.ly/mficfw or from the Microsoft Store in Windows 10. It adds iCloud Drive as a folder to Windows Explorer; syncs your iCloud Photos (see page 24); brings your

Mail accounts, Contacts and Reminders (as Tasks) into Microsoft Outlook; and syncs your Safari bookmarks to Internet Explorer, Firefox or Google Chrome. You can also check your iCloud storage and change settings.

iCloud.com can be accessed with any web browser, so it works on Linux systems and Chromebooks as well as in Windows. It’s best of all in Safari, giving you a simple way to get to your own iCloud on someone else’s Mac without changing their iCloud system settings. You can browse your iCloud Drive and Photos, and upload or download files; view and edit your Calendar, Reminders and Contacts; and use web app versions of Apple’s Pages, Numbers and Keynote apps (also a great way for others to collaborate on your iCloud documents).

In Mail, click the Settings cogwheel at the bottom left to set Rules which, unlike when you do this in the Mac app, are applied to all your mail on the server, so your specified actions (such as moving messages from certain senders to different folders) are always performed before you see your mail on any device, regardless of whether Mail is running on your Mac.

Note that iCloud.com isn’t designed to work in iOS, so the only feature you’ll get is Find My…

iCloud.com can be accessed with any web browser; it works in Linux, on Chromebooks and in Windows