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iCloud
Developer(s)Apple Inc.
Initial releaseDevelopers release
June 6, 2011
Public release
October 12, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-10-12)[1]
Stable release
5.1 / December 7, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-12-07)
Written inJavascript (through Sproutcore framework)
Operating systemOS X (10.7 Lion & Later)
Microsoft Windows 7 or later
iOS 5 or later
Available inMultilingual
TypeOnline backup service
LicenseFreeware
Websitewww.icloud.com

iCloud is a cloud storage and cloud computing service[2][3][4] from Apple Inc. launched on October 12, 2011. As of February 2016, the service had 782 million users.[5]

The service provides its users with means to store data such as documents, photos, and music on remote servers for download to iOS, Macintosh or Windows devices, to share and send data to other users, and to manage their Apple devices if lost or stolen.

The service also provides the means to wirelessly back up iOS devices directly to iCloud, instead of being reliant on manual backups to a host Mac or Windows computer using iTunes. Service users are also able to share photos, music, and games instantly by linking accounts via AirDrop wireless.

It replaced Apple's MobileMe service,[4] acting as a data syncing center for email, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, notes, reminders (to-do lists), iWork documents, photos and other data.

One of Apple's iCloud data centers is located in Maiden, North Carolina, US.[6]

History

iCloud was announced on June 6, 2011,[7] at the 2011 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Apple announced that MobileMe would be discontinued after June 30, 2012, with anyone who had an account before the unveiling of iCloud having their MobileMe service extended to that date, free of charge.[8]

The official website, www.icloud.com, went live in early August for Apple Developers. On October 12, 2011, iCloud became available to use via an iTunes update.[9] iCloud had 20 million users in less than a week after launch.[10] The iCloud.com domain and registered trademark were bought from a Swedish company called Xcerion, who rebranded their service to CloudMe.[11][12][13] CloudMe still controls major domains like iCloud.de, iCloud.fr and iCloud.es.[14]

A class action lawsuit by customers unhappy over the transition from MobileMe to iCloud was filed in early May 2012.[15]

Announcement

The first official mention of iCloud from Apple came on May 31, 2011, when a press release[16] announced that it would demonstrate the service at the WWDC on June 6, 2011. A banner hung at the Moscone Center for WWDC revealed the iCloud logo five days before the official launch.[17]

In the WWDC 2011 keynote speech, Apple announced iCloud will replace MobileMe services and that the basic iCloud service will be free of charge.[18]

Features

The cloud-based system allows users to store music, photos, applications, documents, bookmarks, reminders, backups, notes, iBooks, and contacts, and provides a platform for Apple's email servers and calendars. Third-party iOS and OS X app developers are able to implement iCloud functionality in their apps through the iCloud API.[19]

Backup and restore

iCloud allows users to back up the settings and data on iOS devices running iOS 5 or later.[20] Data backed up includes photos and videos in the Camera Roll, device settings, app data, messages (iMessage, SMS, and MMS), ringtones, and Visual Voicemails. Backups occur daily when the device is locked and connected to Wi-Fi and a power source. In case of a malfunction of any Apple device, during the restoration process, iCloud offers to restore all data along with App data only if the device was synced to iCloud and backed up.

Back to My Mac

Main article: Back to My Mac

Back to My Mac, also previously part of MobileMe, is now part of iCloud.[21] As before, this service allows users to log in remotely to other computers that have Back to My Mac enabled and are configured with the same Apple ID.

Email

As with MobileMe (and .Mac and iTools before it), an iCloud account includes an email account. Unlike MobileMe and its previous iterations, an email address is an optional part of an iCloud account, in that the user can choose not to use it but can still use the email as their iCloud Apple ID. The email account can be accessed using any standard IMAP-compatible email client, as well as the online web app mail client at the iCloud.com. Additionally, on an iOS device, iCloud email is push-enabled.

Users converting existing MobileMe accounts to iCloud accounts kept their existing "@me.com" email addresses, and users whose accounts pre-dated MobileMe and had both me.com and mac.com email addresses kept both. As with the .Mac to MobileMe transition, existing users get to keep their old addresses and also get a matching new iCloud.com address, so messages sent to a valid account with multiple addresses all end up in the same inbox.

Users setting up new iCloud accounts, whether completely new or attaching[clarification needed] them to existing non-MobileMe Apple IDs, can opt to not have email with their iCloud account. These users don't see the iCloud webmail component when signing in at iCloud.com. They still need a valid email address with another email provider to sign up (e.g. a Gmail account), and that existing non-Apple email address becomes their iCloud login.[clarification needed]

Calendar

(To be added)

Contacts

(To be added)

Wallet

(To be added)

Find My Friends

Main article: Find My Friends

Find My Friends was a new feature introduced to iCloud in iOS 5. Find My Friends is very similar to Find My iPhone, except users can share their location with other friends or family using the feature. Concurrently with the launch of iOS 5, Apple released an app for Find My Friends. iOS 6 added location-based alerts to notify the user when a device arrives at a certain location.[22] In iOS 9 Find My Friends Is built-in to the device and cannot be removed. In October 2015 Find My Friends was added to iCloud.com to view other "friends" locations. [23]

Find My iPhone

Main article: Find My iPhone

Find My iPhone, formerly part of MobileMe, allows users to track the location of their iOS device or Mac. A user can see the device's approximate location on a map (along with a circle showing the radius depicting the margin of error), display a message and/or play a sound on the device (even if it is set to silent), change the password on the device, and remotely erase its contents.[24] The feature was first announced on June 10, 2009 and was included in iOS 3.0 software update as a feature for paying MobileMe users.[25] Find My iPhone was made free of charge with the iOS 4.2.1 software update on November 22, 2010, but only for devices introduced in 2010.[26] An iOS app was also released by Apple on June 18, 2010, which allows users to locate their device from other iOS devices running iOS 4 or later software.[27] In iOS 5, Find My iPhone was continued as a feature for iCloud. iOS 6 introduced Lost Mode, a new feature that allows the user to mark a device as "lost", making it easier to protect and find. The feature also allows someone that finds the user's lost iPhone to call the user directly without unlocking it. Similar phone finder services under various names are available for other families of smartphones.

Activation Lock was introduced in 2013 with iOS 7. It is integrated with iCloud and Find My iPhone feature. This new feature locks the activation of any iDevice which has been restored in either DFU or Recovery mode without first disabling the Find My iPhone feature. Once restore is completed, the iDevice will ask for the Apple ID and password that has been previously associated with it, in order to proceed with activation, ultimately preventing any stolen iDevice from being usable.[28][29] The main criticism around this new feature is that it can lock out legitimate owners, while Apple hasn't offered an option to prove ownership of an iDevice.[citation needed] A tool was released, by doulCi team, to bypass this feature, but it turned out to be a money scam by generating website hits with adds.[citation needed]

As of iOS 9, Find my iPhone is a built-in app, and thus cannot be removed.[30]

iCloud Keychain

Main article: Keychain (Apple)
This article is about the cloud service operated by Apple Inc.. For the service previously named icloud by Xcerion, see CloudMe.

iCloud
Developer(s)Apple Inc.
Initial releaseDevelopers release
June 6, 2011
Public release
October 12, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-10-12)[31]
Stable release
5.1 / December 7, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-12-07)
Written inJavascript (through Sproutcore framework)
Operating systemOS X (10.7 Lion & Later)
Microsoft Windows 7 or later
iOS 5 or later
Available inMultilingual
TypeOnline backup service
LicenseFreeware
Websitewww.icloud.com

iCloud is a cloud storage and cloud computing service[2][3][4] from Apple Inc. launched on October 12, 2011. As of February 2016, the service had 782 million users.[32]

The service provides its users with means to store data such as documents, photos, and music on remote servers for download to iOS, Macintosh or Windows devices, to share and send data to other users, and to manage their Apple devices if lost or stolen.

The service also provides the means to wirelessly back up iOS devices directly to iCloud, instead of being reliant on manual backups to a host Mac or Windows computer using iTunes. Service users are also able to share photos, music, and games instantly by linking accounts via AirDrop wireless.

It replaced Apple's MobileMe service,[4] acting as a data syncing center for email, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, notes, reminders (to-do lists), iWork documents, photos and other data.

One of Apple's iCloud data centers is located in Maiden, North Carolina, US.[6]

History

iCloud was announced on June 6, 2011,[7] at the 2011 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Apple announced that MobileMe would be discontinued after June 30, 2012, with anyone who had an account before the unveiling of iCloud having their MobileMe service extended to that date, free of charge.[8]

The official website, www.icloud.com, went live in early August for Apple Developers. On October 12, 2011, iCloud became available to use via an iTunes update.[9] iCloud had 20 million users in less than a week after launch.[10] The iCloud.com domain and registered trademark were bought from a Swedish company called Xcerion, who rebranded their service to CloudMe.[11][12][13] CloudMe still controls major domains like iCloud.de, iCloud.fr and iCloud.es.[14]

A class action lawsuit by customers unhappy over the transition from MobileMe to iCloud was filed in early May 2012.[15]

Announcement

The first official mention of iCloud from Apple came on May 31, 2011, when a press release[16] announced that it would demonstrate the service at the WWDC on June 6, 2011. A banner hung at the Moscone Center for WWDC revealed the iCloud logo five days before the official launch.[17]

In the WWDC 2011 keynote speech, Apple announced iCloud will replace MobileMe services and that the basic iCloud service will be free of charge.[18]

Features

The cloud-based system allows users to store music, photos, applications, documents, bookmarks, reminders, backups, notes, iBooks, and contacts, and provides a platform for Apple's email servers and calendars. Third-party iOS and OS X app developers are able to implement iCloud functionality in their apps through the iCloud API.[19]

Backup and restore

iCloud allows users to back up the settings and data on iOS devices running iOS 5 or later.[20] Data backed up includes photos and videos in the Camera Roll, device settings, app data, messages (iMessage, SMS, and MMS), ringtones, and Visual Voicemails. Backups occur daily when the device is locked and connected to Wi-Fi and a power source. In case of a malfunction of any Apple device, during the restoration process, iCloud offers to restore all data along with App data only if the device was synced to iCloud and backed up.

Back to My Mac

Main article: Back to My Mac

Back to My Mac, also previously part of MobileMe, is now part of iCloud.[21] As before, this service allows users to log in remotely to other computers that have Back to My Mac enabled and are configured with the same Apple ID.

Email

As with MobileMe (and .Mac and iTools before it), an iCloud account includes an email account. Unlike MobileMe and its previous iterations, an email address is an optional part of an iCloud account, in that the user can choose not to use it but can still use the email as their iCloud Apple ID. The email account can be accessed using any standard IMAP-compatible email client, as well as the online web app mail client at the iCloud.com. Additionally, on an iOS device, iCloud email is push-enabled.

Users converting existing MobileMe accounts to iCloud accounts kept their existing "@me.com" email addresses, and users whose accounts pre-dated MobileMe and had both me.com and mac.com email addresses kept both. As with the .Mac to MobileMe transition, existing users get to keep their old addresses and also get a matching new iCloud.com address, so messages sent to a valid account with multiple addresses all end up in the same inbox.

Users setting up new iCloud accounts, whether completely new or attaching[clarification needed] them to existing non-MobileMe Apple IDs, can opt to not have email with their iCloud account. These users don't see the iCloud webmail component when signing in at iCloud.com. They still need a valid email address with another email provider to sign up (e.g. a Gmail account), and that existing non-Apple email address becomes their iCloud login.[clarification needed]

Calendar

(To be added)

Contacts

(To be added)

Wallet

(To be added)

Find My Friends

Main article: Find My Friends

Find My Friends was a new feature introduced to iCloud in iOS 5. Find My Friends is very similar to Find My iPhone, except users can share their location with other friends or family using the feature. Concurrently with the launch of iOS 5, Apple released an app for Find My Friends. iOS 6 added location-based alerts to notify the user when a device arrives at a certain location.[22] In iOS 9 Find My Friends Is built-in to the device and cannot be removed. In October 2015 Find My Friends was added to iCloud.com to view other "friends" locations. [33]

Find My iPhone

Main article: Find My iPhone

Find My iPhone, formerly part of MobileMe, allows users to track the location of their iOS device or Mac. A user can see the device's approximate location on a map (along with a circle showing the radius depicting the margin of error), display a message and/or play a sound on the device (even if it is set to silent), change the password on the device, and remotely erase its contents.[24] The feature was first announced on June 10, 2009 and was included in iOS 3.0 software update as a feature for paying MobileMe users.[25] Find My iPhone was made free of charge with the iOS 4.2.1 software update on November 22, 2010, but only for devices introduced in 2010.[26] An iOS app was also released by Apple on June 18, 2010, which allows users to locate their device from other iOS devices running iOS 4 or later software.[27] In iOS 5, Find My iPhone was continued as a feature for iCloud. iOS 6 introduced Lost Mode, a new feature that allows the user to mark a device as "lost", making it easier to protect and find. The feature also allows someone that finds the user's lost iPhone to call the user directly without unlocking it. Similar phone finder services under various names are available for other families of smartphones.

Activation Lock was introduced in 2013 with iOS 7. It is integrated with iCloud and Find My iPhone feature. This new feature locks the activation of any iDevice which has been restored in either DFU or Recovery mode without first disabling the Find My iPhone feature. Once restore is completed, the iDevice will ask for the Apple ID and password that has been previously associated with it, in order to proceed with activation, ultimately preventing any stolen iDevice from being usable.[34][35] The main criticism around this new feature is that it can lock out legitimate owners, while Apple hasn't offered an option to prove ownership of an iDevice.[citation needed] A tool was released, by doulCi team, to bypass this feature, but it turned out to be a money scam by generating website hits with adds.[citation needed]

As of iOS 9, Find my iPhone is a built-in app, and thus cannot be removed.[36]

iCloud Keychain

Main article: Keychain (Apple)

Template loop detected: Keychain (Apple)/iCloud Keychain

iTunes Match

For other uses, see ITunes (disambiguation).

iTunes Match debuted on November 14, 2011. It was initially available to US users only.[37] For an annual fee, customers can scan and match tracks in their iTunes music library, including tracks copied from CDs or other sources, with tracks in the iTunes Store, so customers do not have to repurchase said tracks. Customers may download up to 100,000 tracks in 256 kbit/s DRM-free AAC file format that match tracks in any supported audio file formats in customers' iTunes libraries, including ALAC and MP3. Customers also have the choice to keep their original copies stored on their computers or have them replaced by copies from the iTunes Store.[38] Any music not available in the iTunes Store is uploaded for download onto customers' other supported devices and computers; doing this will not take storage from the customers' iCloud's storage allowance. Any such tracks stored in the higher quality lossless audio ALAC, or original uncompressed PCM formats, WAV and AIFF, are transcoded to 256 kbit/s DRM-free AAC format before uploading to the customers' iCloud storage account, leaving the original higher quality local files in their original format.[39]

If a user stops paying for the iTunes Match service, all copies of the DRM-free AAC iTunes Store versions of tracks that have already been downloaded onto any device can be kept,[40][41] whether on iOS devices or computers.[40]

From iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks onwards, the iTunes Radio function will be available across devices, including integration with the Music app, both on portable iOS devices and Apple TV (2nd generation onwards), as well as inside the iTunes app on Macintosh and Windows computers. It will be included in an ad-free version for subscribers to the iTunes Match service and is currently available only in the US and Australia[42]

As of March 26, 2014, iTunes Match is available in 116 countries, while iTunes in the Cloud is available in 155 countries.[43]

iWork for iCloud

Main article: iWork

During the 2013 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote speech, iWork for iCloud was announced for release at the same time as the next version of the app versions of iWork later in the year. The three apps for both iOS and OS X that form Apple's iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote), will be made available on a web interface (named as Pages for iCloud, Numbers for iCloud, and Keynote for iCloud respectively), and accessed via the iCloud website under each users iCloud Apple ID login. They will also sync with the users iOS and OS X versions of the app, should they have them, again via their iCloud Apple ID.

This allows the user to edit and create documents on the web, using one of the supported browsers; currently Safari, Chrome, and Internet Explorer. It also means that Microsoft Windows users now have access to these native –previously only Apple device– document editing tools, via the web interface.

Photo Stream

Photo Stream is a service supplied with the basic iCloud service which allows users to store the most recent 1,000 photos on the iCloud servers up to 30 days free of charge. When a photo is taken on a device with Photo Stream enabled, it is automatically uploaded to the iCloud servers; from there, it is automatically pushed to the rest of the user's registered devices. Photos in Photo Stream will automatically be removed from other devices after the user reaches the 1,000 photo or 30 day limit. Users who utilize Photo Stream on their Mac or PC can choose to have all photos permanently saved on their computer — their photos in Photo Stream will not be removed from the computer when they are dropped out of Photo Stream after the user reaches the 1,000 photo or 30 day limit. The service is also integrated with Apple TV, allowing users to view their recent photos wirelessly on their HDTV.[44]

iCloud Photo Library

iCloud Photo Library is a feature on iOS 8.1 or later and OS X Yosemite (version 10.10) of later, plus web app access. The service stores all of the users photos, maintaining their original resolution and metadata. Users can access their iCloud Photo Library on supported devices via the new Photos app when available or via the iCloud Photo Library web app at iCloud.com, which helps limit the amount of local storage each device needs to use in order to store photos (particularly those with smaller storage capacities) by storing lower-resolution versions on the device, with the user having the option to keep some/all stored locally at higher resolution.

Storage

See also: Apple ID

Since introduction in 2011, each account has 5 GB of free storage for owners of either an iOS device using iOS 5.x or later, or a Mac using OS X Lion 10.7 or later. Users can purchase additional storage for a total of 50 GB, 200 GB, or 1 TB. The amount of storage is shared across all devices per iCloud Apple ID.[45]

Several native features of iCloud use each user's iCloud storage allowance, specifically, Backup and restore, and email, Contacts, and Calendars. On Macs, users can also store most filetypes into iCloud folders of their choosing, rather than only storing them locally on the machine. While Photo Stream uses the iCloud servers, usage does not come out of the user's iCloud storage allowance. This is also true for iTunes Match music content, even for music that is not sold in the iTunes Store and which gets uploaded into iCloud storage, it does not count against the user's allowance. Other apps can optionally integrate app storage out of the user's iCloud storage allowance.

Not all of a user's content counts as part of their iCloud storage allowance. Apple is able to keep a permanent track of every purchase a user makes under their Apple ID account, and by associating each piece of content with the user, means only one copy of every Store item is needed to be kept on Apple's servers. For items bought from the iTunes Store (music, music videos, movies, TV shows), iBooks Store (books), or App Store (iOS apps), this uses a service Apple call iTunes in the Cloud, allowing the user to automatically, or manually if preferred, re-download any of their previous purchases on to a Mac, PC, or iOS device.[43] Downloaded (or streamed, provided the user is connected to the Internet) iTunes Store content can be used across all these devices, however while iBooks Store and App Store content can be downloaded to Macs and PCs for syncing to iOS devices, only iOS and Mac devices — and their respective apps — can be used to read the books.[46] Similarly, OS X apps purchased from the Mac App Store are also linked to the Apple ID they were purchased through, and are able to be downloaded to any Mac using the same Apple ID. Also, when a user registers any new device, all previously bought Store content can be downloaded from the Store servers, or non-Store content from the iCloud servers.[47]

iCloud Drive

iCloud Drive is iCloud's file hosting service for devices running iOS 8, OS X Yosemite (version 10.10), or Windows 7 or later, plus online web app access via iCloud.com. This feature allows users to store any kind of file, including photos, videos, documents, music, and other apps' data, in iCloud Drive and access it on any Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, or Windows PC. Users can start their work on one device and continue on another device.[48] By default, users will still get 5 GB of storage for free as previously, but the expandable storage plans available have increased considerably in size (up to 1 TB of space) and altered to monthly subscription options from the yearly ones offered under the previous non-iCloud Drive service.

URL access points for web apps

File:ICloud Homepage.png
iCloud Home Page as of January 2016

There are subdirectory (private) access points to each iCloud user's individual account web apps via the main iCloud.com portal. Once signed in, these provide web access to each iCloud user's account via direct links to each web app, with the number of web apps Apple are making available here ever expanding, the current number is 15:

Main apps

  • https://www.icloud.com[49] – main user login.
  • https://www.icloud.com/mail[50] – user's Mail web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/contacts[51] – user's Contacts web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/calendar[52] – user's Calendar web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/find[53] – user's Find My iPhone web app access (for iOS and OS X devices).
  • https://www.icloud.com/reminders[54] – user's Reminders web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/fmf[55] – user's Find My Friends web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/settings[56] – user's Settings web app access.

iWork apps

  • https://www.icloud.com/pages[57] – user's Pages web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/numbers[58] – user's Numbers web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/keynote[59] – user's Keynote web app access.

iCloud Drive apps

  • https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive[60] – user's iCloud Drive web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/photos[61] – user's iCloud Photo Library web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/notes[62] – user's Notes web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/notes2[63] - user's Notes web access whom have upgraded to Apple's more advanced notes.[64]

As well as private subdirectory access points, the previous similar MobileMe service also had subdomains for public access to certain user account functions, which are not offered in iCloud.

System requirements

iCloud account creation requires either an iOS device running iOS 5 or later or a Mac running OS X Lion v10.7.5 or later.[65]

Online access to iCloud requires a compatible web browser, and certain features are have their own minimum requirements of OS versions e.g. using iCloud Photo Sharing requires OS X Mavericks v10.9 or above on a Mac.[66]

Devices running older versions of OS X (before Mavericks) or iOS (below 7) may be unable to sign in to iCloud after the iCloud password has been changed: the only resolution for this issue is to upgrade the OS, which may be impossible on a device that does not meet the newer OS' minimum requirements.[67]

Synchronizing with a PC requires Windows 7 or later and using the iCloud Control Panel, and optionally Outlook 2007 or later to sync Calendar, Contacts and Reminders.

Synchronization of bookmarks requires Safari 5.1.1 or later on OS X, and Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 22 or Google Chrome 28 or later on Windows.[68]

MobileMe account users could move their accounts to be an iCloud account, keeping the same account details.[69]

Criticism

iCloud has been criticized by third-party developers for bugs that make some features nearly unusable under earlier versions of iOS and Mac OS X, specifically the use of Core Data in iCloud, for storing and syncing larger amounts of data between third party apps on users' devices.[70][71][72]

Third-party developers have reported that the changes implemented in the release of iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks (version 10.9) address these iCloud criticisms.[73][74]

Name dispute

iCloud Communications, a telecommunications company in Arizona, sued Apple in June 2011 for trademark infringement shortly after Apple announced iCloud.[75][76] The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court of Arizona and demanded that Apple stop using the iCloud name and pay unspecified monetary damages. iCloud Communications changed its name to Clear Digital Communications in August 2011 and dropped its lawsuit against Apple shortly thereafter.[77]

Privacy

Apple’s iCloud service, including iCloud Drive and iOS device backups, does not provide end-to-end encryption, also known as client-side encryption,[78][79][80] and without end-to-end encryption, user’s information is left unsecured because it remains easily accessible to unauthorized persons.[80][81][82][83][84]

In August 2014, it was rumoured that hackers had discovered an exploit involving the Find My iPhone service, which potentially allowed an attacker to brute-force a user's Apple ID and access their iCloud data. The exploit was later incorrectly rumored to have been used as part of an August 2014 leak of a large number of private, nude photos of celebrities that had been synced to their iCloud storage from their iPhone. Apple confirmed that it was working with law enforcement agencies to investigate the leak.[85][86][87] Apple subsequently denied that the iCloud service itself or the alleged exploit was responsible for the leak, asserting that the leaks were the result of a very targeted phishing attack against the celebrities.[88] On September 13, 2014 Tim Cook, while being interviewed by Charlie Rose, stated on camera that the celebrity leaks were not an iCloud exploit at all, but rather the celebrities had been phished by very targeted phishing to trick them out of their login credentials.[89]

Subsequently, when announcing ApplePay, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a raft of measures to beef up security including promoting increased awareness of their two-factor authentication process.

Data loss

A bug in iCloud Drive can result in data loss. For example, moving a set of files from iCloud Drive if they have not been synchronized yet will result in them being lost.[90]

See also

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  45. ^ "iCloud Storage Pricing". Apple. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
  46. ^ "Apple - Buy and read books on your Mac or iOS device with iBooks". Retrieved July 21, 2014.
  47. ^ Myslewski, Rik (June 6, 2011). "Apple opens iCloud to world+dog". The Register. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
  48. ^ "Apple - iOS 8 - iCloud Drive". Apple. June 2, 2014. Retrieved June 15, 2014.
  49. ^ "iCloud homepage". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  50. ^ "iCloud Mail". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  51. ^ "iCloud Contacts". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  52. ^ "iCloud Calendar". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  53. ^ "iCloud Find My iPhone". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  54. ^ "iCloud Reminders". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  55. ^ "iCloud Find My Friends". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  56. ^ "iCloud Settings". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  57. ^ "iCloud Pages". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  58. ^ "iCloud Numbers". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  59. ^ "iCloud Keynote". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  60. ^ "iCloud Drive". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  61. ^ "iCloud Photos". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  62. ^ "iCloud Notes". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
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iTunes Match

For other uses, see ITunes (disambiguation).

iTunes Match debuted on November 14, 2011. It was initially available to US users only.[1] For an annual fee, customers can scan and match tracks in their iTunes music library, including tracks copied from CDs or other sources, with tracks in the iTunes Store, so customers do not have to repurchase said tracks. Customers may download up to 100,000 tracks in 256 kbit/s DRM-free AAC file format that match tracks in any supported audio file formats in customers' iTunes libraries, including ALAC and MP3. Customers also have the choice to keep their original copies stored on their computers or have them replaced by copies from the iTunes Store.[2] Any music not available in the iTunes Store is uploaded for download onto customers' other supported devices and computers; doing this will not take storage from the customers' iCloud's storage allowance. Any such tracks stored in the higher quality lossless audio ALAC, or original uncompressed PCM formats, WAV and AIFF, are transcoded to 256 kbit/s DRM-free AAC format before uploading to the customers' iCloud storage account, leaving the original higher quality local files in their original format.[3]

If a user stops paying for the iTunes Match service, all copies of the DRM-free AAC iTunes Store versions of tracks that have already been downloaded onto any device can be kept,[4][5] whether on iOS devices or computers.[4]

From iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks onwards, the iTunes Radio function will be available across devices, including integration with the Music app, both on portable iOS devices and Apple TV (2nd generation onwards), as well as inside the iTunes app on Macintosh and Windows computers. It will be included in an ad-free version for subscribers to the iTunes Match service and is currently available only in the US and Australia[6]

As of March 26, 2014, iTunes Match is available in 116 countries, while iTunes in the Cloud is available in 155 countries.[7]

iWork for iCloud

Main article: iWork

During the 2013 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote speech, iWork for iCloud was announced for release at the same time as the next version of the app versions of iWork later in the year. The three apps for both iOS and OS X that form Apple's iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote), will be made available on a web interface (named as Pages for iCloud, Numbers for iCloud, and Keynote for iCloud respectively), and accessed via the iCloud website under each users iCloud Apple ID login. They will also sync with the users iOS and OS X versions of the app, should they have them, again via their iCloud Apple ID.

This allows the user to edit and create documents on the web, using one of the supported browsers; currently Safari, Chrome, and Internet Explorer. It also means that Microsoft Windows users now have access to these native –previously only Apple device– document editing tools, via the web interface.

Photo Stream

Photo Stream is a service supplied with the basic iCloud service which allows users to store the most recent 1,000 photos on the iCloud servers up to 30 days free of charge. When a photo is taken on a device with Photo Stream enabled, it is automatically uploaded to the iCloud servers; from there, it is automatically pushed to the rest of the user's registered devices. Photos in Photo Stream will automatically be removed from other devices after the user reaches the 1,000 photo or 30 day limit. Users who utilize Photo Stream on their Mac or PC can choose to have all photos permanently saved on their computer — their photos in Photo Stream will not be removed from the computer when they are dropped out of Photo Stream after the user reaches the 1,000 photo or 30 day limit. The service is also integrated with Apple TV, allowing users to view their recent photos wirelessly on their HDTV.[8]

iCloud Photo Library

iCloud Photo Library is a feature on iOS 8.1 or later and OS X Yosemite (version 10.10) of later, plus web app access. The service stores all of the users photos, maintaining their original resolution and metadata. Users can access their iCloud Photo Library on supported devices via the new Photos app when available or via the iCloud Photo Library web app at iCloud.com, which helps limit the amount of local storage each device needs to use in order to store photos (particularly those with smaller storage capacities) by storing lower-resolution versions on the device, with the user having the option to keep some/all stored locally at higher resolution.

Storage

See also: Apple ID

Since introduction in 2011, each account has 5 GB of free storage for owners of either an iOS device using iOS 5.x or later, or a Mac using OS X Lion 10.7 or later. Users can purchase additional storage for a total of 50 GB, 200 GB, or 1 TB. The amount of storage is shared across all devices per iCloud Apple ID.[9]

Several native features of iCloud use each user's iCloud storage allowance, specifically, Backup and restore, and email, Contacts, and Calendars. On Macs, users can also store most filetypes into iCloud folders of their choosing, rather than only storing them locally on the machine. While Photo Stream uses the iCloud servers, usage does not come out of the user's iCloud storage allowance. This is also true for iTunes Match music content, even for music that is not sold in the iTunes Store and which gets uploaded into iCloud storage, it does not count against the user's allowance. Other apps can optionally integrate app storage out of the user's iCloud storage allowance.

Not all of a user's content counts as part of their iCloud storage allowance. Apple is able to keep a permanent track of every purchase a user makes under their Apple ID account, and by associating each piece of content with the user, means only one copy of every Store item is needed to be kept on Apple's servers. For items bought from the iTunes Store (music, music videos, movies, TV shows), iBooks Store (books), or App Store (iOS apps), this uses a service Apple call iTunes in the Cloud, allowing the user to automatically, or manually if preferred, re-download any of their previous purchases on to a Mac, PC, or iOS device.[7] Downloaded (or streamed, provided the user is connected to the Internet) iTunes Store content can be used across all these devices, however while iBooks Store and App Store content can be downloaded to Macs and PCs for syncing to iOS devices, only iOS and Mac devices — and their respective apps — can be used to read the books.[10] Similarly, OS X apps purchased from the Mac App Store are also linked to the Apple ID they were purchased through, and are able to be downloaded to any Mac using the same Apple ID. Also, when a user registers any new device, all previously bought Store content can be downloaded from the Store servers, or non-Store content from the iCloud servers.[11]

iCloud Drive

iCloud Drive is iCloud's file hosting service for devices running iOS 8, OS X Yosemite (version 10.10), or Windows 7 or later, plus online web app access via iCloud.com. This feature allows users to store any kind of file, including photos, videos, documents, music, and other apps' data, in iCloud Drive and access it on any Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, or Windows PC. Users can start their work on one device and continue on another device.[12] By default, users will still get 5 GB of storage for free as previously, but the expandable storage plans available have increased considerably in size (up to 1 TB of space) and altered to monthly subscription options from the yearly ones offered under the previous non-iCloud Drive service.

URL access points for web apps

File:ICloud Homepage.png
iCloud Home Page as of January 2016

There are subdirectory (private) access points to each iCloud user's individual account web apps via the main iCloud.com portal. Once signed in, these provide web access to each iCloud user's account via direct links to each web app, with the number of web apps Apple are making available here ever expanding, the current number is 15:

Main apps

  • https://www.icloud.com[13] – main user login.
  • https://www.icloud.com/mail[14] – user's Mail web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/contacts[15] – user's Contacts web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/calendar[16] – user's Calendar web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/find[17] – user's Find My iPhone web app access (for iOS and OS X devices).
  • https://www.icloud.com/reminders[18] – user's Reminders web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/fmf[19] – user's Find My Friends web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/settings[20] – user's Settings web app access.

iWork apps

  • https://www.icloud.com/pages[21] – user's Pages web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/numbers[22] – user's Numbers web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/keynote[23] – user's Keynote web app access.

iCloud Drive apps

  • https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive[24] – user's iCloud Drive web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/photos[25] – user's iCloud Photo Library web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/notes[26] – user's Notes web app access.
  • https://www.icloud.com/notes2[27] - user's Notes web access whom have upgraded to Apple's more advanced notes.[28]

As well as private subdirectory access points, the previous similar MobileMe service also had subdomains for public access to certain user account functions, which are not offered in iCloud.

System requirements

iCloud account creation requires either an iOS device running iOS 5 or later or a Mac running OS X Lion v10.7.5 or later.[29]

Online access to iCloud requires a compatible web browser, and certain features are have their own minimum requirements of OS versions e.g. using iCloud Photo Sharing requires OS X Mavericks v10.9 or above on a Mac.[30]

Devices running older versions of OS X (before Mavericks) or iOS (below 7) may be unable to sign in to iCloud after the iCloud password has been changed: the only resolution for this issue is to upgrade the OS, which may be impossible on a device that does not meet the newer OS' minimum requirements.[31]

Synchronizing with a PC requires Windows 7 or later and using the iCloud Control Panel, and optionally Outlook 2007 or later to sync Calendar, Contacts and Reminders.

Synchronization of bookmarks requires Safari 5.1.1 or later on OS X, and Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 22 or Google Chrome 28 or later on Windows.[32]

MobileMe account users could move their accounts to be an iCloud account, keeping the same account details.[33]

Criticism

iCloud has been criticized by third-party developers for bugs that make some features nearly unusable under earlier versions of iOS and Mac OS X, specifically the use of Core Data in iCloud, for storing and syncing larger amounts of data between third party apps on users' devices.[34][35][36]

Third-party developers have reported that the changes implemented in the release of iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks (version 10.9) address these iCloud criticisms.[37][38]

Name dispute

iCloud Communications, a telecommunications company in Arizona, sued Apple in June 2011 for trademark infringement shortly after Apple announced iCloud.[39][40] The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court of Arizona and demanded that Apple stop using the iCloud name and pay unspecified monetary damages. iCloud Communications changed its name to Clear Digital Communications in August 2011 and dropped its lawsuit against Apple shortly thereafter.[41]

Privacy

Apple’s iCloud service, including iCloud Drive and iOS device backups, does not provide end-to-end encryption, also known as client-side encryption,[42][43][44] and without end-to-end encryption, user’s information is left unsecured because it remains easily accessible to unauthorized persons.[44][45][46][47][48]

In August 2014, it was rumoured that hackers had discovered an exploit involving the Find My iPhone service, which potentially allowed an attacker to brute-force a user's Apple ID and access their iCloud data. The exploit was later incorrectly rumored to have been used as part of an August 2014 leak of a large number of private, nude photos of celebrities that had been synced to their iCloud storage from their iPhone. Apple confirmed that it was working with law enforcement agencies to investigate the leak.[49][50][51] Apple subsequently denied that the iCloud service itself or the alleged exploit was responsible for the leak, asserting that the leaks were the result of a very targeted phishing attack against the celebrities.[52] On September 13, 2014 Tim Cook, while being interviewed by Charlie Rose, stated on camera that the celebrity leaks were not an iCloud exploit at all, but rather the celebrities had been phished by very targeted phishing to trick them out of their login credentials.[53]

Subsequently, when announcing ApplePay, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a raft of measures to beef up security including promoting increased awareness of their two-factor authentication process.

Data loss

A bug in iCloud Drive can result in data loss. For example, moving a set of files from iCloud Drive if they have not been synchronized yet will result in them being lost.[54]

See also

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  3. ^ "iTunes Store: How to subscribe to iTunes Match". Apple. January 16, 2012. Retrieved July 6, 2012. Songs encoded in ALAC, WAV, or AIFF will be transcoded to a separate temporary AAC 256 kbps file locally, prior to uploading to iCloud. The original files will remain untouched.
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  13. ^ "iCloud homepage". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  14. ^ "iCloud Mail". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
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  16. ^ "iCloud Calendar". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
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  18. ^ "iCloud Reminders". iCloud.com. Apple. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
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