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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Keep your messages up to date with iCloud
With iCloud, your messages stay up to date on all your devices. You can also use Messages to collaborate with others.
Access the same messages on all your devices
When you set up iCloud for Messages, your messages are stored in the cloud, with only the most recently accessed Messages stored locally on your device. You can see them on any device that is set up for iCloud and Messages, including your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac.
Because your messages are in the cloud, if you send, receive or delete a message on one device, those updates appear everywhere. You see the most up-to-date version of your messages, no matter where you access them.
Note: Your messages, along with the accompanying photos and other attachments, count towards your iCloud storage.
Share and collaborate using Messages
On devices with iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, or later, you can use Messages to collaborate on projects in iCloud Drive, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Notes, Reminders, Safari and supported third-party apps. When you share a file in a message, everyone in the conversation is automatically added.
When collaborators make changes to a shared file, everyone sees activity updates at the top of the Messages conversation.