{"id":73223,"date":"2014-09-19T21:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=73223"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:27:51","slug":"windows-gets-icloud-drive-support-before-mac-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/windows-gets-icloud-drive-support-before-mac-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows gets iCloud Drive support before Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new <strong>iCloud Drive<\/strong> improves the way data is synced between the cloud and your devices. Windows just gained support for the revamped iCloud Drive but Mac users are left waiting until <a title=\"OS X Yosemite announced, coming fall 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/os-x-yosemite-announced-coming-fall-2014\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OS X Yosemite<\/a> is released.<\/p>\n<p>iCloud Drive offers a logical way to organize your files, much like a traditional drive with folders. Previously, iCloud tried to hide your files from you to make the service easier to use, but it <strong>ended up confusing users<\/strong> who tried to access their data.<\/p>\n<p>When <a title=\"What's changed in iOS 8?\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/what-changes-in-ios-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS 8 debuted<\/a> this week, <strong>developers warned users not to upgrade to iCloud Drive yet<\/strong> as it will stop your devices from syncing all your app settings and other data. Mac users will have to wait to use iCloud Drive since the unreleased OS X Yosemite will be the first version of OS X to support the feature.<\/p>\n<p>OS X Yosemite is <strong>expected to debut this fall<\/strong> but Apple has not specified a date yet. iPhone users who use Windows on their computer can feel free to upgrade to iCloud Drive now and rub it into their Mac-loving friends.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"Ars Technica\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2014\/09\/icloud-for-windows-update-means-pcs-can-use-icloud-drive-before-macs-can\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"The Start Menu in Windows 9 will change color\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/the-start-menu-in-windows-9-will-change-color\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Start Menu in Windows 9 will change color<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Office 2016 will get 'Tell Me' help feature\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/office-2016-will-get-tell-me-help-feature\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Office 2016 will get &#8216;Tell Me&#8217; help feature<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat fix security vulnerability\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/updates-for-adobe-reader-and-acrobat-fix-security-vulnerability\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat fix security vulnerability<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BitTorrent\u2019s Bleep chat app is untraceable\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/try-bittorrents-untraceable-chat-app-bleep\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BitTorrent\u2019s Bleep chat app is untraceable<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new iCloud Drive improves the way data is synced between the cloud and your devices. Windows just gained support for the revamped iCloud Drive but Mac users are left waiting until OS X Yosemite is released. iCloud Drive offers a logical way to organize your files, much like a traditional drive with folders. Previously, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/windows-gets-icloud-drive-support-before-mac-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows gets iCloud Drive support before Mac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":73228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-73223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330127,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73223\/revisions\/330127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73223"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=73223"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=73223"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=73223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}