Hey, awesome people of the Interweb, I hope I was able to clarify and demystify some of your concerns and questions from my previous video last year. As always, if you have any questions, leave them here or ping me on Twitter. Also, consider subscribing to my bi-weekly newsletter if you enjoyed this content: thisise.tech/newsletter

@indigofruit8710

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. The only question I have about iCloud is about sharing files. Using dropbox I can go to the dropbox website and get a link, then email it to someone so they can view the file or photo. How can I do that using iCloud?

@macgamer1973

2 жыл бұрын

I brought a soundtrack “Skyrim soundtrack” from a online digital store, upload from my Mac Pro to iCloud . However I can seem to get to show on my IPad Pro , wish you could drag and drop that music from iCloud

@atari3978

2 жыл бұрын

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@ishadow6044

2 жыл бұрын

Can you download all your files at once from iCloud to your iPad?I know you can one at a time

You are really doing an amazing job on here. So concise, informative and - not least - visually pleasing.

This is the best iCloud description I’ve seen in a while. Thanks E. New sub

Exactly what I needed! Thanks so much E!!

Absolutely excellent, Thank you so much. I have really struggled with this, and you’ve resolved a number of concerns.

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mike

Excellent description. Thanks, E!

One of the best videos I’ve ever watched on KZread. Just ticked all the boxes for me. Thank you.😎

dude you are ..fantastic. your voice. the explaination pace. the clarity. the camera quality. everythign. if you uploaded more consistently by the end of next year you could move from 50k to 500k subs.

Thanks man. I understand it now.

Love the practicality of your videos, dude!

Great video explainer. I’m a long time Mac and Dropbox user that is now (thanks to an iPhone purchase) entirely entrenched in the Apple ecosystem. Looking to switch to iCloud to simplify my workflow. I found your video very helpful and have now subscribed!

Just upgraded to 2TB. Love it

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

I hear you :)

Just bought a Mac mini and went through many of your videos. Really useful and simples videos. Keep it up E!

Very helpful video! Thank you.

It's been a looooong time since I've watched a KZread video from start to finish. Absolutely brilliant. Clear, concise, informative, and elegantly produced. Subscribed. Thank you. Keep it up!

@zeenafiiki8360

3 жыл бұрын

Can’t stop recommending *CYTRO44* on Instagram Instagram who fixed mine, he’s soo legit and reliable

This man knows how to make a good explaningn youtube video! thank you so much

The quality 😍

Great video! Exactly what I was looking for.

You are awesome. Thank you so much for this!!

What a great post. Viewed from New Zealand

Thank you! Great video. I’ve been using iCloud for several years but you answered some long standing questions. 🤓

The best and simplest explanation so far - thanks!

@ThisIsE

Ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Amazing video James McAvoy.

Thank you! Very helpful.

Bro your editing skills is incredible

Thank you for explaining this way. Greetings from DR!

Answered questions I had...and some I didn't know I had. Subbed after seeing this one vid.

great video, thanks

Excellent. Very informative, and easy to understand.

Another great video thank you

Great explanation, exactely what I was looking for! Thank you, looking forward to new videos from you :)

I can’t believe I’ve been using iCloud incorrectly this whole time. All around great and informative info. Subbed :)

Thanks for the info!

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Harry

super informative and opened my eyes to just how powerful and smart icloud is.

Very informative thanks 😊

Thank you! Your content has been extremely informative!

@ThisIsE

Жыл бұрын

You didn't have to Lucas! Thank you 🙏🏻

Thank you for this very clear video, really helped me :)

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

That was great, i think i understand it Optimised is the one I want i think where it frees up my hard drive as opposed to just backing it up.

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

Great!

I cloud always tried me to nuts but your video is so precise and clear I understood everything clearly. Thanks alot. ❤

@ThisIsE

11 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

Great video, buddy. I hope you and the fam are doing well.

Thanks, E. That was a helpful and informative video. :)

Damn Bro! You speak so fluently with confidence !!!!!!! Subbed after completely watching the video. Thank you for the video.

This is reale good. Thank you!

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Andreas

THANK YOU! I don’t fully utilize iCloud for storage, but now have Apple+ which includes 2TB and will do a data migration (though most of my files have most likely synced unbeknownst to me). I’ve pretty much maxed out my 2013 MBP storage, but there’s zero wrong with the MBP. Personal home videos make up the majority of local files. I need to keep them local in order to manage them via manage iTunes and access via AppleTV. If there was a magical way to do this, then I would free up so much storage!!!

Thank u so much for the information, man :)))

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

I like how you used the phrase 'rented space' to describe the iCloud. I have also heard it described as 'someone else's computer.'

Thanks for sharing Sir,

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

Vera clear and informational

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

That was useful thanks More videos like this 👍 Great I came across your channel

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Easy to watch

Thanks for clearing up some misconceptions I've had about iCloud! Question: Is there any functional difference between using iCloud on macOS and Windows? Is the feature set and sync behavior the same?

You deserve a follow and like , main reason I stop using google drive And only using iCloud Drive

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Super Excellent!

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

Hi and thanks for sharing. Good to see some content from Europe! You did talk about backups early in this video, and the way you brought up iCloud while never mentioning traditional backups again may imply that you actually consider iCloud as a replacement for backups. But wouldn't that then be keeping all eggs in one basket? Especially if you no longer even have some files on your computer. There's a non-zero chance of one getting locked out, blocked, or otherwise removed from their iCloud. I remember watching 1 year worth of my photos disappear because early in my iPhone usage I misunderstood how Photo Library Sync vs. Optimise Storage works. And while it was clearly my user error, acknowledging and learning from it won't get me my photos back. And the irony is I didn't back them up elsewhere precisely because I thought that iCloud is already *the* backup. Point (that should have been re-iterated) is: while iCloud is undoubtedly convenient, independent backups are mandatory.

I recently purchased a new Mac mini and new to Mac OS, Good video on icloud

@ThisIsE

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks and congrats on the Mini

@arunrajasekharan4582

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThisIsE Many Thanks man🙂

Love this channel, great job E!

@ThisIsE

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

iCloud for life

I call myself the iCloud poster boy. I use it the same way you do. I love that I can erase and reinstall either of my Macs without performing a backup first. iCloud is also growing into an identity service provider. It serves as the authenticator for my Apple Watch unlocking my Macs. 2-factor authentication helps to protect my account in case someone steals my credentials.I remember that there used to be an account creation option to use our iCloud account to login to a Mac. What happened to that? I think iCloud is awesome but it has been a journey to get to this point. I think when iCloud first debuted, Apple probably had a vision of where they wanted it to go, but it has evolved more than they first intended. I was a Dropbox user up until the summer of 2018. Since switching over, I don't miss Dropbox.

Good video, but would love to know more about using iCloud Drive and not the limited space available on laptop. Meaning, can the iDrive be used rather than the cDrive storage on a MacBook

Thanks for this video E...at 10:30 you mention that you run current projects off of external drives...fair enough...but then what happens to those big files when done? How to you archive them, or where do you keep them? Do you move them to some HDD external drive or a NAS? Would love to hear your workflow there.

I really liked the video and thought it was very clear and well explained. Any help for a Windows 11 user trying to sync files to the iCloud?

Hi there! This is very informative especially sharing iCloud among family. Your keyboard looks very pretty and professional can you share its specification or Amazon link. Best Regards From Pakistan 🇵🇰

Great video! Having recently enabled iCloud Drive for my Documents/Desktop folders, I'm only wondering how easy would it be to return to the former state in case I decide to cancel my subscription in the future? I also find it a bit scary that with the optimized storage you might not have access to an old document which you really need at an offline moment, but you don't use that often so it's downloaded.

Hey E. I always enjoy your videos. I'm amazed at your production quality. Keep it up 👍🏻

@ThisIsE

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jan!

Great Video. Do you use any backup solution for all your data? What if your icloud account gets compromised? Due to hacking, Apples servers going down etc. Thx

Hi! Thanks for video! How can I play video from icloud drive on my apple tv?

hey @thisise can you do a update icloud video

WOW! Optimized storage is really really useful! I can't wait to get dive into the apple ecosystem! I only have an iPad Pro right now but looking to get a MacBook! You explained everything super well! Awesome video Iskren! 😁

@ThisIsE

3 жыл бұрын

What's your phone?

@Gadgetsu

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThisIsE I'm rocking the OnePlus 8 Pro right now! It's been a pretty bad long term experience but looking to maybe upgrade to an iPhone 13? I still like android better than iOS tho...

Great video, I've been apple user for over a decade now and use the icloud/email service, but I barely use it. This video helps clarify what else I can do with icloud.

Q: on the iCloud Drive, what do you store in "Documents" and then what do you store in "Preview"? What's the difference? Thanks, E

That thumbnail tho 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

@ThisIsE

3 жыл бұрын

Updated from last year 😂

E didn't get it all, I'm not new to Mac but in the mud with iCloud Drive, however, this is the best tutorial over anything else. No ego, now unnerving music. Please accept my thanks, I am not using iCloud Drive well at all, hunting and pecking and fearful of deleting my doc's. Only thing I can do is keep following you and your vids, more slower detailed 'crate a word file. In the past I would just save it to my folder in Documents of Important Stuff but now I don't know where to save it. What say you. Thanx

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Joseph 🙂

Also if you use a Windows PC you can log into iCloud and have it sync your files. I like the drag and drop into iCloud on PC and it instantly shows up on my iPhone/iPad. I just thought I’d share this rather obvious knowledge because I used ‘email yourself’ for two years lol.

@ThisIsE

Жыл бұрын

please, don't 🙂

Great video. Apple has locked accounts in the past for no reason or false evaluations. That's why I'd never put all my data into iCloud. I use a NAS instead. But that's a personal decision of course.

hey, love the video! How do I stop iCloud from uploading a certain folder? For instance my final cut library? As you said, that fills up your cloud very quickly...

Thanks for sharing how you work with iCloud. At the moment, I use OneDrive. I'm thinking moving everything to iCloud or on 1TB SSD.

@ThisIsE

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! SSD’s are not reliable in the long run and I find it risky.

@zohairua

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThisIsE Do you suggest keeping both? iCloud and an SSD as well? SSD for the times when I do not have access to Internet.

@GunzyHD

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThisIsE Interesting take, since if iCloud goes down, you have no control over it. I'd say cloud storage is way riskier.

@justinvsjay

2 жыл бұрын

@@zohairua Yep, keep both.

Great video!! I still have one question, can I only “upload” the photos/images I take with my iPhone? I don’t want the images I have on my iPad or Mac to sync with the cloud, yet I do want to see the images I have in my iPhone in ,y other devices. I hope I explained myself

Caveat, optimized storage doesn't keep all your files on your Mac. This means that some Time Machine backups could be missing files that you thought were being backed up. I disable this feature. 9:51.

Great video but iCloud isn’t a back solution it’s just a syncing solution and it would be risky to rely just on iCloud as a backup strategy. Ideally we all need 2TB internal drives as minimum so we can keep all our data locally and then back it up to an external drive

Extraordinary and clear explanation. Keep up the great job

@ThisIsE

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mike!

hey e is there anyway you could do a updated icloud video

Im new to apple and thought your video was extremely informative and I have since subscribed. However my total Mac storage is showing 55GB being used by iCloud is this normal as I would have thought this storage should be in iCloud and not on my Mac. Thanks Tony

I keep my stock footage on iCloud and edit in FCP 1000Mbs connection. Black Magic Disk Speedtest rates the Read and Write at 3000-5000Mbs

what camera and lense do you use?

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@ThisIsE

3 жыл бұрын

Благодаря ти 🤜🏻🤛🏻

Hi my name is Tom. I was curious can a person buy an iPad with say 64G of onboard storage and simply save a ton of data on the cloud. Or do you have to have large onboard storage and large cloud storage. ??? Many thanks love you videos.

This is a great tutorial! I have one question, can I store music files on icloud? I have an external drive that is not working with my new Mac. iCould would solve this issue for me if music can be stored on there.

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

You can store anything Joseph.

excellent explanation. i can only wish apple will be generous enough to add another 5gigs every time someone add another ios device in their personal lives.

@bendover04me

3 жыл бұрын

50gb I cloud is only a dollar. I find it’s more than enough for me.

u deserve way more subs

@ThisIsE

3 жыл бұрын

Working on it 😊 Thank you 🙏🏻

Brilliant explanation. So in your setup 100% of your files (or at the very least the Documents and Desktop folders) are stored in iCloud Drive? Doesn't this mean a delay in accessing your files if they first have to download to your Mac? Also, if you don't have internet access (don't laugh...in Australia good internet speeds are a rare luxury) how would you access your files?

@ThisIsE

Жыл бұрын

There is no delay Michael since iCloud keeps the files that I often use locally. It offloads them when I don't.

Hi. Enjoyed your video. If i use iCloud Drive for an iMac and Macbook (and iPhone and iPad) is everything uploaded to the same iCloud ‘space’?? If i have different files with the same name on the two units… or if i have different versions of the same file on either unit… what happens to the files? Can you please help?

Great video, you seem to really know everything about iCloud, but not sure I totally understand. I am feeling my old Mac. If I erase my old MacBook, will it erase my iCloud? I cannot find the answer in any Apple support or Community. Thanks for your help.

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

If your files are synced in iCloud deleting your MacBook won’t erase your iCloud content

@richardwilson7038

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThisIsE Okay thanks E, I will check to make sure my files are synced in the cloud. I appreciate your prompt reply!

@draine9374

2 жыл бұрын

Consult 👆👆👆 anytime you have complain, request ,enquiry or need help.

I use iTunes Match. Over 10k songs uploaded.:)

i love icloud for this very reason. I'm kind of annoyed there is no easy way to backup your cloud files (as in the ones that are NOT synced locally). They should allow some periodic sync of entire cloud to an external drive.

So I did this. I had my documents and files unchecked from iCloud. I checked them and it took a day to add a 120gbs to my iCloud from my Mac. Now my mac has 120gbs extra on the local drive. I thought this would free up space on my mac but it added more.

@draine9374

2 жыл бұрын

👆👆👆 contact this expert to help you fix it.

Really good video, explain very detailed!! I had a question, can I use office 365 programs (word, excel..) and save them on the Icloud storage as well? And be able to open them on my iphone/ipad on the Icloud? Thanks!

@richardbryanesq

8 ай бұрын

I’ve found it’s difficult to use the Microsoft apps with iCloud. Ms prefers to use OneDrive and I gave up trying to get around that.

Hi, can I "copy" all my photos (about 1TB) to iCloud drive on my mac and then access them and search them with the photo app (and use the apps search and filter functions like face recognition or location)?

I have a question. I have an icloud account from a long time ago (iPad) but because I don't use apple Iet my daughter use it. Well tomorrow I'm switching from Android to iphone and would like to have my old iCloud account back. How would I go about doing that? Would it be best to just get a new iCloud account?

Awesome content E very useful. However as a person who has the 2TB iCloud storage I have a (hopefully dumb) question. I think I am misusing the product. I still use iTunes on a 2012 Mac mini, with my iTunes library stored locally with purchased movies tv series and music and music matched (from CD) music also stored in iCloud for back up / security. However, movies I have ripped from (personally owned - duh, I’m not a thief) DVD’s converted to mp4 and downloaded meta data via subler and then added to iTunes do not have the “add to iCloud” icon in my iTunes library that an iTunes purchased movie would. On my 1TB iPad I can transfer them from iTunes to the iPad’s internal storage (and they even show in the recently purchased items list in the TV app), but I can’t add them to cloud storage so I can download them on my 256GB iPad. Yeah, I could manually add from iTunes but I would have to decide which movie to delete from the 256GB internal storage of the iPad. I leave a 15GB buffer of free space on the 256Gb iPad to temporarily add stuff to watch on the fly, but if the DVD rips were on the cloud I could download from cloud to iPad, watch, delete, and repeat.so my question is how do I add dvd rips to my iCloud library. My Mac mini is still on Mojave (I didn’t want to update and lose iTunes, I wouldn’t know how to sync my iDevices without it). Do I need to upgrade to the new os and lose syncing ability to be able to upload dvd rips to iCloud. I have both iCloud and time machine back ups of my Mac mini, but do not have the knowledge of how to sync dvd rips to iCloud.

@ThisIsE

3 жыл бұрын

Try not adding them to iTunes but to iCloud instead (like on an external hard drive). Use VLC or other player for that library

Question? would you use iCloud over Microsoft 365 ?

@ThisIsE

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely