Take Control of iCloud, 8th Edition

Introduction

iCloud, Apple’s collection of online services, offers a simple way to keep all your important data in sync across your devices. iCloud’s mission is to propagate your documents, music, TV shows, movies, photos, contacts, calendars, passwords, and other data to all your devices so immediately and automatically that you never think about where your data resides anymore.

But iCloud goes far beyond the concept of syncing. Many features you use on a Mac, iOS/iPadOS device, Apple TV, or Apple Watch want to involve iCloud in some way. You can use your Apple device without an iCloud account, but many common tasks will be more awkward or even impossible. And, from Apple’s point of view, why would you want to use a device without iCloud? ...