
So, when you go to save a document in Pages or a presentation in Keynote, for example, iCloud Drive will be listed as one of the save location options. Your folder hierarchy, however, will be flat you can add one level of nested sub-folder but no more.Īdditionally, iCloud Drive is baked into Apple's iWork apps. You can also create a new folder by right-clicking in the iCloud Drive window. You'll find an empty iCloud Drive folder in Finder you can simply drag files and folders to it to move them off of your Mac and to the cloud. If you didn't, you need go to System Preferences > iCloud and check the box for iCloud Drive at the top of the list. When you installed OS X El Capitan, you might have set up iCloud Drive. On the Mac side, setting up iCloud Drive is easy. PricingĪpple gives you 5GB of iCloud Drive storage for free, and four paid plans provide up to 1TB of storage space for $9.99 a month. Let's have a look at how you go about setting up iCloud Drive on both your Mac running OS X El Capitan and iOS devices running iOS 9. It now operates as a standalone service on both OS X and iOS, catching it up to Dropbox and other cloud services that allow for quick and convenient uploads so you can access your files across your Apple devices while freeing up some local storage on your devices in the process.
