Admission iCloud Drive files from your iPhone and other devices

Employ iCloud Drive to manage, view, edit and update file versions across all of your devices.

Use iCloud Drive on your iPhone, iPad, iPod bear upon, Mac, or PC

Automatically save Pages, Numbers, and Keynote files to iCloud Drive

Y'all tin can update the settings on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch so that your documents automatically save to iCloud Drive, On My [device], or a third-party cloud service.

  1. Go to Settings.
  2. Cull to update the settings for Pages, Numbers, or Keynote.
  3. Tap Document Storage.
  4. Choose where yous desire to automatically save your documents.

If you choose iCloud Drive, changes you lot make to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote files on your Mac automatically salve to iCloud Drive.

Add Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Bulldoze

Manage your iCloud Drive files while offline

If you're offline and want to access, edit, and salvage documents in iCloud Drive, follow these steps first.

How to access files while you lot're offline

Upload files to iCloud Drive to save changes made offline

You can upload files to iCloud Drive from a Mac or PC by doing one of the post-obit:

  • Drag files from either your desktop or a folder window on your computer to the iCloud Drive window. You can also drag your files to a binder icon in the iCloud Drive window. If you elevate to a folder icon, it's highlighted to confirm that the item you lot're dragging goes into the folder.
  • Click the iCloud Drive upload button in the iCloud Bulldoze toolbar. Select the files you lot want to upload, then click Choose.

If you don't take enough space in iCloud for your upload, upgrade your iCloud storage or manage your iCloud storage to gratuitous up space.

When changes to your files upload to iCloud

The amount of time it takes for your changes to upload to iCloud depends on the app you lot're using. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote regularly upload files to iCloud and so yous don't lose any changes. Other apps upload your files to iCloud merely after you save them to the iCloud Drive folder. To see your saved files on a Mac, get to Finder > iCloud Drive. On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on, go to the Files app. On a PC with iCloud for Windows, go to File Explorer > iCloud Drive.

If you still don't see the latest changes or you lot run into an "in-progress modify" icon or the iCloud icon in the notification surface area (system tray), effort to save a new document to the iCloud Drive folder. Then check the iCloud Drive folder to come across if the changes appear.

Where to observe missing files

When you lot turn on iCloud Drive, whatever documents that y'all already store in iCloud automatically move to iCloud Drive. You can run across your files on iCloud.com, in the Files app on iOS eleven and later, in the Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps, or in the iCloud Drive app on iOS 10 and iOS nine.

If you don't meet your files in any of those locations, set upwardly iCloud Drive on all of your devices.

If you need to access a file that you deleted inside the last 30 days, you tin can become it back from the Recently Deleted folder in the Files app, or on iCloud.com.

If your files don't update to iCloud Drive

How to address a Resolve Conflict bulletin

If you lot get a Resolve Disharmonize message when yous open a file, choose the version of the document that you want to salve. And then choose Continue to update the file in iCloud. This message ways the file was updated on another device or from iCloud.com since the last fourth dimension y'all signed in to iCloud.

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