Set and apply iCloud for Windows

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

Before you brainstorm

Make sure that y'all set upwardly iCloud on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or Mac and that you're signed in with your Apple ID. And so follow the steps below to download and fix up iCloud for Windows.

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

Set up iCloud for Windows

  1. Download iCloud for Windows on your PC.
    • Windows ten or later: Go to the Microsoft Store to download iCloud for Windows.
    • Earlier versions of Windows*: Download iCloud for Windows from apple.com.
    • If information technology doesn't install automatically, go to File Explorer and open up iCloud Setup.
  2. Restart your computer.
  3. Make sure iCloud for Windows is open. If information technology doesn't open automatically, go to Offset, open up Apps or Programs, and open iCloud for Windows.
  4. Enter your Apple ID to sign in to iCloud.
  5. Choose the features and content that you desire to continue up to date beyond your devices.
  6. Click Apply.

* Learn how to discover out which Windows system you employ.

Download and share your photos

When you turn on Photos, iCloud for Windows creates a Photos binder in File Explorer called iCloud Photos. iCloud Photos uploads new photos and videos that yous add together to the iCloud Photos folder on your PC so yous can see them in the Photos app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac, and on iCloud.com. New photos and videos you take automatically download from iCloud Photos.

Share your photos

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

Learn how to set up and use iCloud Photos.

See your files and folders with iCloud Drive

When you turn on iCloud Bulldoze, iCloud for Windows creates an iCloud Drive binder in File Explorer. You lot can notice documents that you've stored in iCloud in this folder. When you create a file on your PC and salve it to the iCloud Drive folder, it too appears on your other devices.

If you want to piece of work on files with friends or colleagues, you tin share private files or create a shared folder to share a grouping of files. You can also pin files and folders so you can use them offline, and hands cheque the condition of a download or shared file.

In iCloud for Windows 12 or later, you can detect and recover files deleted from iCloud Drive in the past thirty days in Recently Deleted in iOS, iPadOS, or iCloud.com, in Trash in macOS, and in Recycle Bin in Windows. If you lot use Delete or Delete All in Recently Deleted or empty the Trash in macOS, files aren't recoverable.If you don't run into the files you wish to restore, y'all can recover files deleted within the terminal thirty days at iCloud.com.

You can as well access your iCloud Drive files and folders at iCloud.com.

If you lot receive an error when you effort to move a file from iCloud for Windows, yous might need to download the file to your Windows PC. After yous download the file, endeavour moving it again.

Keep your apps up to appointment

Salve your passwords across devices

If you use two-factor authentication with your Apple tree ID and own a device running iOS 14 or afterwards, you can save important spider web passwords and keep them up to date in Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and in Google Chrome or Microsoft Border on your PC. Just download the iCloud Passwords extension for your web browser, so utilise the iCloud Passwords app to create, admission, and manage your passwords.

Larn how to gear up 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 lot're using, or click Purchase More Storage to upgrade your storage plan.

If yous use iCloud for Windows ten or later, you lot tin pin files to keep them local to your device. When you unpin them, they upload to iCloud instead.

Manage your business relationship data

If you want to make changes to your Apple ID, including updating your e-mail, mailing address, or other account 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 ten or later on:

Become to the Microsoft Store to check for software updates.

In earlier versions of iCloud for Windows:

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

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

Turn off or uninstall iCloud for Windows

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

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

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

Windows 8 or later:

  1. Go to the Outset screen, right-click in the bottom-left corner or click, then select Command Console.
  2. Click Uninstall a Program.
  3. Click iCloud > Uninstall.
  4. When asked to confirm, select Yep.

Windows vii:

  1. Cull Start menu > Command Panel.
  2. Click Programs > Program and Features.
  3. Select iCloud > Uninstall.
  4. Click OK to continue.

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