How to store an unlimited number of iPhone photos in the cloud for free. iCloud cloud service for iPhone

If you have never used proprietary cloud storage from Apple, you have lost a lot. In addition to the fact that through iCloud (Russian iCloud) content is automatically distributed to all devices connected to the same Apple ID, you can store backups iPhone and iPad, photos, phone book, notes, calendars, etc. It’s also great that changes made to iCloud from any device are automatically applied to everyone at once.

You can sing the praises of Apple and iCloud, in particular, for a long time, but let’s get to the point: “under the cut” is information about what iCloud is, what it is for, how to connect iCloud on iPhone and iPad, Mac and Windows.

• allows the user to access their music, photos, documents and other files from any device;
• saves, helps the owner find lost devices and allows you to share photos with other people. (Apple) But that's not all.

What is iCloud for?

If you have any device (or several at once): iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or Mac computer, iCloud is simply irreplaceable for you. Why, you ask?

• Purchases
  All purchases via iCloud iTunes Store, App Store And iBooks Store automatically become available on all connected devices.
• iCloud Drive
  Work with any documents on a convenient device. Documents ( text files, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, images, etc.) created in apps that support iCloud synchronization are available on any device.
• Family Sharing
  One purchase from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store is free for the entire family. Apple online shopping is free for all family members (up to six people). Read how to enable family sharing.
• Photo
  Photos taken at iPhone camera or iPad automatically become available on all connected devices.
• Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Notes and Reminders
  Through iCloud, contacts, calendar events, notes, and reminders are automatically synced across all your devices. Changes are applied simultaneously on all devices.
• Find iPhone, iPad or Mac
  If you , or put your Mac somewhere, it's easy to find them through iCloud, or .
• iCloud and Safari Keychain
  Reliable cloud storage of logins, passwords and numbers credit cards. The login and password for a website or application saved in the keychain is available for authorization on this site or application on all devices connected to iCloud.
• Backup
  Automatic or manual backup iPhone and iPad in iCloud, allows you to completely after or.
• Apps from the App Store
  , which support synchronization with iCloud, automatically upload their data (settings, backups, saves, etc.) to cloud storage, from where they are transferred to all devices connected to iCloud.
• Access to my Mac
  Connected to iCloud by computer A Mac can be controlled remotely from another Mac over the Internet. You can copy files and transfer them from remote computer Mac to local and vice versa.

System requirements for iCloud

To use all the features cloud technologies Apple recommends using the most latest versions iOS, OS X and software (iTunes, iPhoto, Safari, iWork).

To use iCloud in Windows environment, the following must be installed on your computer:

• Microsoft Windows 7 or later;
• iCloud for Windows 4.0 (free download);
• or later;
• Outlook 2007 or later;
• Internet Explorer 10 or later, Firefox 22 or later, or Google Chrome 28 or later (Desktop mode only).

Minimum system requirements for each individual iCloud features available on the official Apple website, following the link.

Each user gets 5 GB free in iCloud. You can use this volume for storage iCloud mail, application data from the App Store, backup iPhone copies and iPad, notes, calendar, etc.

For photographs there are no restrictions on their size, but there is a “ceiling” on the number. iCloud will carefully store 1,000 of your photos from the last 30 days. Earlier pictures, if the total number of photos in the “cloud” exceeds 1000, are deleted.

5 GB is provided to each iCloud user free of charge, this does not mean that the space in the cloud storage cannot be increased, as they say: “Every whim for your money!”

There are only 4 paid tariff plans in iCloud: 20, 200, 500, 1000 GB for 39, 149, 379 and 749 rubles per month, respectively. Just recently, Apple lowered the tariffs for iCloud and now they are more than pleasant.

You can select or change a tariff plan at any time directly on your iPhone or iPad, as well as on Mac or Windows in the corresponding menu. Money to pay cloud storage are debited from the credit or debit card connected to . If you cannot switch to a paid tariff plan, you can always go to your account settings.

iCloud registration

There is no need for separate registration in iCloud; a single account is used to authorize and manage iCloud content Apple entry ID (identifier and password).

How to access iCloud?

You can access iCloud content from any computer, smartphone or tablet via the Internet from a web browser; just go to http://icloud.com/ and log in with your Apple ID.

Apple devices: iPhone, iPad and Mac computers have deeper integration with iCloud; all data is downloaded from the cloud automatically.

How to connect iCloud on iPhone and iPad?

Cloud iCloud storage is an integral part of the Apple eco-system and, as a result, its management is located in the iOS and OS X system settings.

If you have forgotten the password to your account, you can use it. To do this, go to active link“Forgot your Apple ID or password?”

To connect iCloud to Windows computer must be installed: iCloud for Windows 4.0 (free download) and iTunes 12 or later.

How to disable iCloud without Apple ID password?

“Unlinking” iPhone, iPad and Mac with the “Find My iPhone, iPad or Mac” function disabled from iCloud is quite simple, just a few simple actions. If your device was “linked” in iCloud to your Apple ID and the “Find iPhone”, “Find iPad” or “Find Mac” functions are enabled, in order to exit the “cloud”, you must enter the password for your account, but and it's not difficult.

Problems arise when you have conveniently forgotten the password to your Apple ID, or iCloud on the device is connected not from your Apple ID, but from, say, the account of its previous owner. In such cases there are only 2 options:

Let me remind you: blocking iPhone activation and iPad with installed iOS 8.0 and higher. Its condition can be checked.

!Advice
If on your iPhone or iPad in “Settings -> iCloud” an Apple ID is connected to which you do not have access, restoring and updating the firmware is contraindicated for you. After flashing such a device, activation lock will turn it into “ ”.

How to disable iCloud on iPhone and iPad?

If, for some reason, you have a need or desire to “unlink” your iPhone or iPad from iCloud, for example, to restore the device (it is enough to disable only the “Find My iPhone” function, and not iCloud as a whole) or iOS updates, it's very easy to do.

How to disable iCloud on Mac and Windows computer?

On OS X and Windows, disabling iCloud is as easy as on iPhone. Again, if you have Find My Mac enabled on your Mac, iCloud shutdown you will need to enter a password, but not for the Apple ID, but the administrator password.

And there is one “BUT” here: the same password as in iCloud can be used as the administrator password and password to unlock the Mac, i.e. from Apple ID. You can set a single password in “ System Settings-> Users and groups -> “Change password” button -> “Use” button iCloud password" This way there is no need to remember 2 passwords, one for Mac and one for Apple ID.

To sign out of your iCloud account on Mac:

On Windows, the procedure is similar, just launch iCloud for Windows and click on the “Exit” button.

As you can see, iCloud opens up enormous possibilities for synchronizing, restoring data, and locating a lost or stolen iPhone, iPad, or Mac computer. With its functions, Apple's cloud service has gone far ahead of its competitors and allows you to very flexibly combine everything iOS devices and OS X into one system, which opens up wide horizons of possibilities for their owners. If you haven't yet connected iCloud on your iPhone or Mac, do so, I'm sure you won't be disappointed with cloud storage and its features.

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Today I want to talk about how to use iCloud. For those who don’t know, iCloud is from Apple. It includes not only file storage, but also functions for synchronizing notes, calendar, contacts and files, as well as the ability to store for later or painless migration to new phone. With all this, you need to remember that the capabilities of this service are available not only on the iPhone, but also on other Apple devices. We will touch on this and many other aspects in this article.

Registration

The first thing to do in the question of how to use iCloud is to register account V this service. It's likely that the first time you turned on your iPhone, you already created an AppleID account—a single account for all Apple services. However, here I want to talk about the registration process through the company’s website:

1. Open any Internet browser.
2. Let's go to the web portal dedicated to Apple ID: appleid.apple.com.
3. On the page that opens, click “Create an Apple ID” and go through standard procedure registration, indicating the name and other details of the user.

Once your account has been created, you can start using the services provided.

Before registering, make sure you have not created this account before. If you made purchases from your phone in the AppStore (or simply installed free apps from the store), then you already have a user account.

Login from browser

Since we started covering this topic by registering an account through a browser, we’ll do the first one through it, because how can you use iCloud storage if you don’t log into it first? So we need:

1. Open browser.
2. Dial in address bar"icloud.com".
3. Press the “Enter” key and wait for the page to load.
4. Enter the information from the created account into the login form.
5. Click on the button with the arrow.

Connecting a service on your phone

The next thing that logically needs to be sorted out is how to use iCloud on the iPhone. By default, the service is always enabled, but to make sure this is true, or to enable it (if it is disabled), you need to:

1. Open phone settings.
2. Go to the "iCloud" section.
3. Enable cloud functionality and activate required applications, included in its composition, with the corresponding switches.

Important! In the same menu, settings related to automatic synchronization of this or that content between your devices connected to the same Apple account. Naturally, do not forget to log in to your phone using the account you created.

All other actions related to downloading updated content, transferring contacts, etc. will be performed automatically by the system, which is undoubtedly very convenient.

In conclusion, I would like to answer the eternal question of many inexperienced users: How much does it cost to use iCloud. Initially, the service is provided free of charge - all functionality is available to you, but the cloud storage size is only 5GB. If you need to increase the amount of allocated space, then this can be done for a certain amount, a list of which can be found on the website icloud.com (read about how to clear iCloud storage).

What is iCloud - general information

iCloud stores your photos, documents, and more in the cloud and wirelessly transfers it to your enabled devices.

The best example of iCloud in action is shown in the photo below:

Let me explain the photo: let's say you took a photo on your iPhone. It goes to cloud storage and is automatically transferred to your other devices: iPad, MacBook, etc.

This is just one example of using iCloud, we will look at others in great detail below.

Setting up iCloud on iPad

Initial setup iCloud

What do you need to start using iCloud? Your Apple ID and password. Let's go to Settings in iOS 5 and we see a new menu item iCloud.

Enter your Apple ID and password and click the Sign in button. If you created an account when installing iOS 5, then you won’t have to do this either.

We enter and see this picture:

What do the top parameters mean?

Mail- disabled by default, and I don’t see much point in reserving it.

Contacts- when you change contacts on one device, the contact information on the other will change. Leave this enabled if you are using the standard address book.

Calendars- leave it enabled if you use the standard iOS calendar.

Reminders- leave it turned on if you use reminders. Your reminders will be duplicated on all devices connected to iCloud. This new program in iOS 5.

Bookmarks- leave it enabled if you use bookmarks in the Safari browser.

Notes- if you use the standard Notes application on the iPad, then it is advisable to enable it, but this requires an email like [email protected].

Photostream- turn it on if you want the photo taken with using iPad or screenshots automatically went to iCloud.

Documents and data- included. But we will configure this parameter separately below. Required if you want to transfer documents and data between devices.

Click the “Storage and backups” button.

Each Apple ID has 5 gigabytes available free space for free. If we click the “Buy more free space” button, we will see tariff plans for large volumes of storage.

Tariff plans

10 gigabytes - $20 per year

20 gigabytes - $40 per year

50 gigabytes - $100 per year

Theoretically, 5 free gigabytes should be enough for you.

We are closing tariff plans. Turn on the switch Copy to iCloud.

Important! button "Create a copy" don't press. Press the button "Vault".

Click on the button with the name of your iPad. Next, you are asked to select the data you want to back up. I note that It is not the programs themselves that get into iCloud, but only their data (for example, books from the Shortbook library or Save from a game).

We see that by default we have everything turned on. I have disabled copying of all data except the most necessary programs. Click show all programs and one by one we disable those whose data is not necessary to be stored. The process is tedious, it’s strange that Apple didn’t add a button to turn everything off. I'd rather turn everything off and only turn on the programs I use.

After we have turned off everything unnecessary, we go back to the place where there is a button "Create a copy" and press it. We started creating a copy of our data in iCloud.

Actually, by design Apple automatic iCloud backup is performed when connecting iPad to the power source. In this case, the iPad must be locked and connected to Wi-Fi networks. But nothing prevents you from creating a copy manually at any time.

Setting up mail and notes for iCloud

As was written just above, for mail you need your own address like [email protected]. You can create it directly from your iPad. Move the mail slider (Settings->iCloud ->mail slider to ON). A message appears where we press the button Create.

Enter the address of the form [email protected].

Advice: Try to be imaginative when choosing a name. Choose a unique name - certainly names like [email protected] or [email protected] are already busy and you will receive a notification about it.

Click next - that’s it, the name for the mail has been created. Now the data from this mail will go to iCloud and from there to all your devices. We go into the mail and see that iCloud items have appeared in it. Congratulations, you have a new one postal address kind [email protected], linked to iCloud.

Author's opinion: I don’t see much point in creating this address, but without it you won’t be able to send notes ( Standard application in iOS) in iCloud. It is also unclear why synchronizing mail in iCloud is needed in this form. gmail account, working on imap protocol, in my opinion, no worse.

Photostream - General information. How Photo Stream works

If you have activated the function Photostream(Settings -> iCloud -> Photo Stream -> switch the switch to On), then all photos and screenshots taken on the iPad will be automatically uploaded to iCloud and immediately appear on all your devices that support iCloud.

After turning it on, we try to take screenshots or photos. Let's go to standard program photo on iPad. And we see new tab photostream. Our new screenshots and photos will be displayed there.

Important! It is worth noting that the maximum that a photo stream supports is 1000 photos. Therefore, after the 1000th photo, the following will happen: the oldest photo will be deleted, and a new photo will be uploaded to the photo stream.

How to delete data from a photo stream

Remove them from the application Photo it is forbidden! If you turn off the Photo Stream feature in iCloud (Settings -> iCloud -> Photo Stream -> switch the switch to Off), a message will appear: Disabling a Photo Stream will delete all photos in that Photo Stream from your iPad.

And even if you press delete photo, then only photos on the iPad that were duplicated in the photo stream will be deleted.

Attention! Photos and screenshots from the Photos section of the Photo program will not be deleted. Photos will remain in iCloud. At restart Photo Stream functions, they will simply be downloaded from the network.

Using iCloud through the official website

iCloud has an official website - . Go to it, you will be asked to log in with your Apple ID:

The screenshot shows the Developer Sign In button. The button may be called differently, maybe someday there will even be a Russian interface. The main thing here Sign In- "Sign in".

We log in with our Apple ID and its password, we see 5 icons:

How Mail works in iCloud

When we access our mail, we see exactly the same interface mail client, which we see on the iPad. Everything works similarly, except that on the iPad we can have a ton configured mailboxes, but here there is only 1, and that one is exclusively of the type [email protected]

When working with letters, all changes are instantly displayed on all devices connected to your storage. Comfortable? Comfortable.

How Contacts works in iCloud

We go into this application and see all our contacts from the address book. We're trying to start it new contact right in the browser.

After clicking Done, open the application Address Book on iPad and, lo and behold: a new contact literally appears on the iPad within a few seconds.

We try to edit a contact in the browser - look at the iPad. All changes are reflected almost immediately in address book iPad. To do this, you didn’t even have to press any “Update” buttons - iCloud works on the principle of Push notifications.

The opposite is also true - all changes on the iPad in the address book are immediately displayed in the browser.

How Calendar works in iCloud

Go to the application Calendar in the browser. The interface is almost the same as on the iPad.

Let's try to create a new event in the calendar in the browser:

This event immediately appears in the Calendar application on the iPad.

When you edit an event in the browser, the changes are immediately reflected in the iPad. And vice versa.

How Find My iPhone works in iCloud

I would like to tell you more about this function. If you have lost your iPad, you need to go through the browser and select the Find My iPhone function. You will be asked to enter your Apple ID password.

We enter and after some time the location of our iPad (and any other device connected to iCloud) is determined on Google map. In the left top corner We observe information about the last time the data was updated.

On the map, click on the green dot with our device (if it is found, of course), and click on the icon with the letter i. And we get this pop-up window.

As you can see in the screenshot above, there are three buttons - I’ll explain their purpose.

Play Sound or Send Message function

Intended for sending sound signal to your iPad (you never know, suddenly you lost it in your huge house) or send a message (useful, for example, if you lost your iPad away from home and want to write something to the finder).

Click on this button and see this form.

If we simply press the Send button, it will send sound notification. Moreover, the sound will be loud, regardless of whether the volume on the device is turned on or not.

If we write a message in the text field, then our text will be sent to the iPad:

In addition to all this, you will receive an email confirming that you have used Find functions My iPhone:

Remote Lock function

With this feature we can remotely lock the iPad with a four-digit password. Relevant if you do not want information from it to get to attackers.

Press the Remote Lock button and see the password entry window. Enter it twice:

That’s it, the iPad is locked and you can’t view its contents without entering a password:

Remote Wipe function

Remotely erase data on iPad. The most drastic way to get rid of the contents of your iPad is to hide data from prying eyes.

Hi all! I probably should have started with this article. this blog. Well, or it absolutely should have appeared much earlier. Why? Because iCloud, along with Apple ID, are the basic terms that any user needs to learn and understand Apple technology. Without these two “things” you simply can’t get anywhere!

And if with ID in iOS system I already told you, then with the “clouds” (“cloud” is also sometimes called iCloud) there was some omission, which today I undertake to correct. Let's start with the most important thing - find out what kind of service this is, what useful functionality it has and how to use all this stuff for its intended purpose.

Let's get started! :)

iCloud on iPhone - why do we need it and what kind of program is it?

Although it’s more likely not even a program, but one great service, which includes several fairly important functions, without which the experience of using Apple products would not be so positive. Here are the main ones:

1. Creating backups. All information stored on the device is always saved and access to it is open exclusively to you. It's incredibly convenient! About how to use reserves iCloud copies and what restrictions exist, you can read.
2. The ability to share photos - photo stream. Imagine - done cool photo on the iPhone and it was immediately copied to the iPad. Thanks to photo streaming, there is no need to send photos; they will automatically be distributed to all your Apple gadgets.
3. Find iPhone ( iPad tablet, iPod Touch player). It will help if you forgot or lost your device. It will block, show the coordinates on the map, erase all data if necessary, and send a message to the attacker. Mega-useful thing!

All these points together answer the question - what is iCloud, and why is it needed? I tried to explain in the description of these functions. We smoothly move on to another, no less important issue.

Here, in fact, the answer is simple and unambiguous - all the information that you send to iCloud is concentrated on Apple servers. Geographically speaking, the main data center is located in North Carolina.

For those readers who at this moment still do not fully understand what we are talking about, I will tell you a little more in detail... Imagine that there is a huge hard drive and it is located somewhere far from you. And with buying an iPhone or iPad, you are allocated a small space in this storage. Which is used for all iCloud services.

What’s important is that all information is stored securely encrypted, and only you are allowed to access it. To do this, it is important not to tell anyone your password, and also to carefully store your passwords. email to which it is registered.

It is necessary to know the answer to this question not so much for the sake of curiosity (it’s interesting!), but for the purpose of freeing up space in the cloud storage. After all, only 5 gigabytes are given for free and filling them with all sorts of unnecessary data is a big waste.

So, what exactly can be saved in iCloud:

• Backup. One or more, depending on the number of iPhones or iPads under your account.
• Letters, drafts, attachments to @icloud.com email messages. Do you want to envy yourself such a box? everything is planned down to the smallest detail.
• Contacts, calendars, reminders, notes, SMS messages.
• Photos and videos.
• Documents and data (some programs and applications can store their information in the “clouds”. For what? For example: they started editing a document on one device and continued on another).
• Music purchased or downloaded from iTunes store. Stored, but not taken into account when calculating space.

In general, almost all data from your device can be stored in iCloud!

I hope that after this article you clearly and clearly understand what iCloud does on your iPhone and how to use it for its intended purpose. If suddenly this does not happen, welcome to the comments! Let's discuss all the unclear points!

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P.S.S. I repeat that all questions can and even should be asked in the comments - I will definitely try to help and suggest the right solution!

And the cloudy one took a serious step forward Apple service. Cloud storage iCloud data turned into iCloud Drive, bringing users completely new opportunities for posting and managing files on the Internet. Let's look at these issues in more detail.

Basic settings

So, to use iCloud Drive you must have iOS 8 on iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, and also OS X Yosemite on Mac. You can even access iCloud Drive from your browser and Windows help, but more on that later - for now everything needs to be prepared. If compatible operating systems are installed, then pay attention to the status of the cloud service in the settings:

For iOS 8: Settings -> iCloud -> iCloud Drive- the function must be activated. Here, pay attention to the list of applications - they have access to iCloud Drive.

For OS X Yosemite: System Preferences -> iCloud -> iCloud Drive- again, check for a checkmark indicating that the service is activated. When you click the Options button, you can view the apps that have access to iCloud Drive.

At this point, the preparatory stage is almost complete. One detail. If you are after the update operating system refused to switch from iCloud to iCloud Drive, then do not forget to do this now using the options indicated above. That's it now.

File types and available space

iCloud Drive largely follows the Apple tradition established back in OS X. There is no dump site by default various files, and each application has its own folders in which it stores working documents. However, the key difference between iCloud Drive and regular iCloud is that now the user can create folders and absolutely any type of files in the cloud. In other words, Apple now provides us with full-fledged cloud storage for files.

Flights of fancy rest solely on free disk space. Initially only 5 GB available- There are no changes in this regard. Extensions are much cheaper than it was in the case of iCloud:

Please note that the price for cloud space also changed a little

In this simple way you can increase your cloud storage up to 1 TB. This will be enough for most users. With large volumes of data on the Internet, it is worth thinking about specialized solutions. The bottom line is an exhaustive amount free space in the cloud and the absence of restrictions on file types is a fairy tale.

Access to iCloud Drive

1. The first way to access iCloud Drive is on your Mac. Just open it Finder and go to the tab iCloud Drive. All! Absolutely all files and folders are available to change to your taste - nothing complicated.

If it didn’t work out with poppy seeds, but there is personal computer under Windows control, then everything is also quite simple. You need to download and install "iCloud 4.0 for Windows". After that, a shortcut to iCloud Drive will appear right in the explorer on the left, in the “Favorites” menu. Everything works almost as elegantly and conveniently as on a Mac.

2. The second method is in some ways even simpler, but often not so convenient for long-term use. Let's imagine a situation where you are on someone else's computer or you need one-time access to iCloud Drive. Accordingly, configure cloud storage or install additional software there is no desire or possibility. On help will come browser.

Documents 5 is kind of swiss knife for working with files on iOS. The application creates own folder in the device memory, where the user can place any necessary files. Moreover, you can even get them by downloading from the Internet using the built-in browser. In addition, there is support for all known cloud services and the ability to connect various servers. Of course, you can access iCloud Drive.

Access to the cloud is possible at the level of launching the corresponding applications for each type of file, as well as the ability to add files to the storage from internal memory devices. However, we are talking about those files that are available to the Documents 5 application. In general, using the application you can listen to music, watch a video, edit a document or image - the main working moments are available, and this will be quite enough for most users.

Unlike many of the new services and features that Apple launched this fall, iCloud Drive works stably and clearly performs its own functions. With the help of this material, you now know everything you need to effectively use cloud file storage for your benefit and in many situations refuse additional services, remaining within the unified Apple ecosystem.