Debugging iCloud Apps with developer.icloud.com

When you talk about debugging an app on a Mac or an iOS device, you usually talk about running it to make certain it does what you want it to do (and doesn’t do what you don’t want it to do.) That’s very simple, but when you’re working with iCloud, you have some additional challenges. Specifically, how do you see what the app is doing when what it is doing is happening in iCloud?

You can examine your iCloud storage using developer.icloud.com if you are a registered developer. Log in with your developer ID, and you’ll see your iCloud storage with its Documents folder, as shown in Figure 13.7. There may be some additional folders, but for now Documents is what you are interested in.

Figure 13.7 ...

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