To do so, open Settings>Cellular Data> iCloud Drive and toggle ‘Mobile Data’ to Off (it’s Green – On – by default). That’s fine if you can afford the data, but (particularly) if you travel abroad, you may want to disable this. Hint: iCloud Drive will sync data using your mobile connection unless you tell it not to do so. You can store any file format on iCloud Drive with an upper limit of 50GB. You can buy more storage if you like, or disable the feature in System Preferences>iCloud>iCloud Drive Options – Uncheck Desktop & Documents folders at the top of the list. ICloud Drive lets you open, edit, and sync documents and files across devices. (More information is available here.)Īpple’s macOS will automatically save files saved to your Desktop and Documents folders to iCloud, making these files available across all your devices. That’s useful but will eat into your online drive capacity, particularly as (at 5GB) Apple still doesn’t provide sufficient free drive space.
ICloud Drive is automatically set up on any current Apple device running the latest operating system.
The Mac you activate last will create its own folder for the contents of its Documents and Desktop, and this will also sync. If you use iCloud Drive across multiple Macs then changes made to the Documents and Desktop files on both Macs will sync.
