iCloud is a cloud-storage software offered on all Apple devices since 2011. It can securely keep your photos, music, videos, documents, and apps on the cloud server for easy access at anytime.
We cover the essential settings you need to control to ensure your photos are syncing to iCloud, as well as explain how to upload photos to iCloud from different devices.
Nowadays we take more pictures than ever. We record our daily lives on an hourly basis and require dozens of selfies to get that perfect Instagram shot. Combine this with increased megapixel count on each photo and you get heavy and overflowing photo libraries, which quickly eat up all the available storage space on our devices. And since there’s virtually no way to upgrade your phone storage, apart from buying a new expensive phone, people turn to iCloud.
The most amazing thing about iCloud is that you never really use it directly, it just exists and supports you in your work. The only time you bump against iCloud is when you have too many files in the system and you get a notification about exceeding the limit of one of your Apple iCloud storage plans. What should you do then? Let's start by checking where your iCloud storage is actually going to.
This guide is a good overview of what is iCloud Music Library and how you use it. Apple itself thinks about it as all the music you have stored in iCloud — a personal repository online with tracks matching the ones from the iTunes Store
In some cases you might find out that you can't sign into iCloud on Mac, getting an unknown error occurred iCloud message. This could be especially frustrating since not being able to access iCloud for Mac has the potential to ruin your day. So how do you resolve the issue? Let’s start with why the iCloud unknown error appears in the first place.
It’s likely that you have multiple photo libraries scattered across different devices, which makes managing your files and backups extra difficult. Don’t fear! Below are quick catch-all solutions to reconfigure your mobile device, cloud storage, and computer back into backup harmony.