What's The Difference Between iCloud and iCloud Drive
iCloud Drive was introduced when Apple launched Mac OS Yosemite on 2014, some iOS devices users or Apple products fans may wonder that there is already iCloud, what is the iCloud Drive used for? What's the difference between iCloud and iCloud Drive. In this article, we can know the answer.
What is iCloud?
iCloud is Apple's online storage service, you can use it to
- Back up the important data in your iOS devices.
- Restore your iOS devices from iCloud any time and any place.
- Use iCloud Photo Library to keep your photos and videos securely stored in iCloud and up to date on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple TV, and iCloud.com.
- Cloud helps you find and protect your Apple device if it’s ever lost or stolen.
When you set up iCloud, you automatically get 5GB of storage. You can use that storage space for iCloud Backup, iCloud Drive, iCloud Photo Library, iCloud Mail (your @icloud.com email account), and the information from your apps that use iCloud.
What is iCloud Drive?
iCloud Drive lets you securely access all of your documents from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and Windows PC. So no matter which device you’re using, you always have the most up to date documents when you need them.
You can regard iCloud Drive as Apple's version of Dropbox. It's a cloud-based, document-oriented file-storage service that keeps your data in sync between various devices: PCs, Macs, iPhones, iPads and so on.
With iCloud Drive, you can
- Store all of your documents in one place from any of your devices
- Keep files and folders up to date across all your devices
- Create new files and folders from iCloud-enabled apps
- Work on the same file across multiple apps
- Access the files from your Mac Desktop and Documents folder everywhere that you use iCloud Drive
You can see iCloud includes iCloud Drive. iCloud makes the data and information available across iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Mac, but iCloud Drive even makes the data and documents available across not only Apple Products, but also Windows PC.
