Take Control of iCloud, 8th Edition

Keep Mail, Contacts, and Calendars in Sync

Email, contact, and calendar data work together to help you with many day-to-day tasks, and those sets of details are the ones you’ll most likely want to keep in sync across your Macs and iOS and iPadOS devices. Behind the scenes, they rely on different technologies to do their work. But the end result is that when you change email, contact, or calendar data on one device, iCloud immediately pushes those changes to your other devices.

This chapter discusses these three data types. In the interest of simplicity, I’ve left out most of the boring instructions for tasks you already know how to carry out or can figure out easily, as well as anything for which Apple offers detailed instructions via the ...