Oliver Haslam on May 7, 2022, 10:16 pm

Apple Says Its iCloud Documents And Data To iCloud Drive Merger Is Complete

Apple announced its plans to merge its iCloud Documents and Data service into iCloud Drive last year — now, that process is complete according to an updated support document.

Apple’s newly updated support document says that anyone who previously sued iCloud Documents and Data will now need to enable iCloud Drive if they want to see the files that they were previously using.

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

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

It’s likely that this won’t mean anything to most people because they’re already using iCloud Drive. However, some who used devices prior to iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite would have used the old service because iCloud Drive didn’t exist at the time. Anyone who didn’t make the switch between then and now will have no choice as of today.

While some may suggest that it isn’t capable of competing with more advanced options like Dropbox and Google Drive, iCloud Drive is now more than up to the job of syncing files between devices in a way that will meet the needs of the vast majority of people.