iCloud User Guide
- Welcome
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
- Customise and use the homepage
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
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- Photos on iCloud.com overview
- View your photos and videos
- Hide your photos and videos
- Use iCloud Shared Photo Library
- Upload and download photos
- Add a title or caption
- Organise photos and videos
- Add photos and videos to Favourites
- Play a slideshow of photos
- Delete and recover photos and videos
- Share photos and videos
- Recover files and information
- Use iCloud on your Windows computer
- Get more help with iCloud
- Legal notices and acknowledgements
- Copyright
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View or download attachments in Notes on iCloud.com
You can attach items to notes by using the Notes app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Mac that is signed in with the same Apple ID. You can then view and download those attachments — photos, audio files, maps, iWork files and more — in Notes on iCloud.com.
Note: In locked notes on iCloud.com, you see placeholders for attachments instead of actual attachment content. To view attachments in locked notes, use the Notes app on your device that is signed in with the same Apple ID.
View or play photos, audio files, maps and other attachments
In Notes on iCloud.com, select a note that contains the attachment you wish to view or play.
Double-click the attachment.
The attached content is downloaded to your computer, opened in the appropriate application, or both.
View and download scanned documents
You can view and download documents that you scanned using the Notes app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
In Notes on iCloud.com, select a note that contains a scanned document.
Do either of the following:
View the document: double-click the thumbnail of the scanned document.
Download the document: double-click the thumbnail of the scanned document, then click
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To view and download another document, click its thumbnail in the Scanned Documents window.
View and edit attached iWork documents
You can view and edit Pages, Numbers and Keynote documents you attached using the Notes app on your devices that are signed in with the same Apple ID.
In Notes on iCloud.com, select a note that contains a Pages, Numbers or Keynote attachment.
Double-click the attachment.
A copy of the attachment is saved in iCloud Drive and opens in Pages for iCloud, Numbers for iCloud or Keynote on iCloud. To learn more about iCloud Drive, see Use iCloud Drive on iCloud.com
Important: Any changes you make affect only the copy of the document saved in iCloud Drive and not the document attached to the note.