Apple's merger of 'iCloud Documents and Data' into iCloud Drive is now complete

Apple announced that it will merge its iCloud documents and data services into iCloud Drive in May 2022, and the transition is now complete.

As noted in today’s updated support document, users who previously relied on iCloud documents and data to sync files across devices will need to turn on iCloud Drive to view their files.

iCloud Documents and Data, our legacy document sync service, has been discontinued and replaced by iCloud Drive. If you use iCloud Documents and Data, your account has been migrated to iCloud Drive.

If you use the iCloud Documents and Data service, you need to turn on iCloud Drive to view your files. When you switch to iCloud Drive, the amount of storage space used in iCloud by your saved files doesn't change.

Apple's support documentation provides instructions and minimum system requirements for iCloud Drive on iOS devices, Mac, and iCloud.com.

The vast majority of "iCloud" users already have "iCloud Drive" enabled, so they won't see any changes. But for users who had an iCloud account before iCloud Drive launched in 2014 but never enabled it, perhaps to maintain compatibility with pre-iOS 8 and pre-OS X Yosemite devices that don't support iCloud Drive, they now need to turn it on to regain access to its files.

The older "iCloud" document and data service saves cloud synced data in a folder for a specific application, allowing access to the data only from that application. As iCloud Drive becomes a more full-featured sync service, all of these files are now accessible from one place: the Files app on iOS and iPadOS, the iCloud Drive section of Finder on macOS, or the iCloud Drive section of iCloud. com.

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