{"id":4025,"date":"2013-04-16T11:28:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T15:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techwalls.com\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2013-10-06T00:18:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T04:18:55","slug":"helpful-icloud-tricks-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/helpful-icloud-tricks-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Helpful iCloud Tricks and Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>iCloud<\/strong> is a cloud system from Apple \u00a0that allows for your multimedia to be saved and made available in the cloud to all of your other devices. &#8220;In the cloud&#8221; literally means that it is saved in a digital storage locker that can be of varying capacity.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However iCloud&#8217;s advanced cloud technology is easy to learn, but not always apparent to master. There are multiple tricks and secrets to uncover and today we will uncover them.<\/p>\n<h2>1.\u00a0Digital iCloud Folder for Mac<\/h2>\n<p>There is a little known fact that Apple once tried to purchase Dropbox. Now, with iCloud being a Dropbox competitor, there are a couple of things that Dropbox has over iCloud. However, one previous hand up that Dropbox had over iCloud is crushed with this little known iCloud trick. The synced Dropbox folder found on desktops is also a feature iCloud holds. The &#8220;Mobile Documents&#8221; folder found on Mac automatically syncs the documents you hold on Mac saved in iCloud and makes it viewable even without an Internet connection. Enabling this Dropbox-esque feature is easy to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Mac, open &#8220;iCloud&#8221; in &#8220;System Preferences&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>In &#8220;iCloud&#8221; preferences, enable &#8220;Documents &amp; Data&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4028\" alt=\"icloud-mobile-documents\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/icloud-mobile-documents.jpg\" width=\"483\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/icloud-mobile-documents.jpg 483w, https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/icloud-mobile-documents-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finding the Mobile Documents folder is the next challenge. This little known folder is easily accessible by activating Finder, selecting the &#8220;Go&#8221; tab in the menubar, then selecting &#8220;Go to Folder&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>From there, search the following: ~\/Library\/ , then select &#8220;Go&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Find the &#8220;Mobile Documents&#8221; folder, then select it.<\/li>\n<li>Click and drag this folder into an easily accessible place, like your Desktop or the sidebar of Finder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. When you want to easily save a document and have it apply across all of your iOS devices, simply drag and drop or save the document into this folder.<\/p>\n<h2>2. The Killing Of Contact Duplicates<\/h2>\n<p>iOS presents a wonderful situation where you are able to automatically have contacts pinged and created on your native iOS contacts app based on the social networks you&#8217;ve connected. This is done in settings by clicking on either Twitter or Facebook, and selecting &#8220;Update Contacts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, the problem this presents is that the feature isn&#8217;t intelligent enough yet to know which contacts could match with those already present, creating duplicate contacts in the process. To clear out duplicate contacts, simply click on the culprits, selecting &#8220;Edit&#8221; in the top right, and scrolling all the way down until you see &#8220;Linked Contacts&#8221;, right above &#8220;Delete Contacts&#8221; button. When you select &#8220;Link Contact&#8230;&#8221;, you will be able to select the other duplicates and merge them together into a contact known as &#8220;Unified Info&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4029\" alt=\"link-contact-ios\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/link-contact-ios.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/link-contact-ios.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/link-contact-ios-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In what ways has iCloud helped simplify your digital life? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iCloud is a cloud system from Apple \u00a0that allows for your multimedia to be saved and made available in the cloud to all of your other devices. &#8220;In the cloud&#8221; literally means that it is saved in a digital storage locker that can be of varying capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1146],"tags":[74,1147,297,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-4025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-guide","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-guide-2","10":"tag-ios","11":"tag-mac","12":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Two Helpful iCloud Tricks and Secrets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"iCloud is much larger than just a place to save the digital life of your Apple products, read on to find out two other helpful uses of iCloud!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/helpful-icloud-tricks-secrets\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Emmanuel Banks\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/helpful-icloud-tricks-secrets\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/helpful-icloud-tricks-secrets\/\",\"name\":\"Two Helpful iCloud Tricks and Secrets\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/helpful-icloud-tricks-secrets\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/helpful-icloud-tricks-secrets\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/icloud-mobile-documents.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-04-16T15:28:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-10-06T04:18:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/#\/schema\/person\/67a1357bb1929f2b61118adf163a4443\"},\"description\":\"iCloud is much larger than just a place to save the digital life of your Apple products, read on to find out two other helpful uses of iCloud!\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/helpful-icloud-tricks-secrets\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/helpful-icloud-tricks-secrets\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/helpful-icloud-tricks-secrets\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/icloud-mobile-documents.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/icloud-mobile-documents.jpg\",\"width\":483,\"height\":382,\"caption\":\"icloud-mobile-documents\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/helpful-icloud-tricks-secrets\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Tech Guide\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/guide\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Two Helpful iCloud Tricks and Secrets\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/\",\"name\":\"TechWalls\",\"description\":\"Technology News | Gadget Reviews | Tutorials\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/#\/schema\/person\/67a1357bb1929f2b61118adf163a4443\",\"name\":\"Emmanuel Banks\",\"description\":\"Emmanuel Banks has been a technology blogger for almost four years. 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