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Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, El Capitan Edition
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Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, El Capitan Edition

by David Pogue
January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
804 pages
28h 40m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Meet iCloud

If you have a Mac, you’ll see frequent references to Apple’s free iCloud service. So what is iCloud?

It’s a huge array of features that are designed to make you glad you belong in the Apple ecosystem. iCloud synchronizes information across all your Macs, iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches, across family members, across the world, wirelessly and automatically. It keeps track of every song, book, movie, app, and TV show you’ve bought from Apple, so that you can download them onto any other gadget with an Apple logo on the back. It lets you find a lost Apple gadget. It gives you an email account. And a lot more.

The rest of this chapter details each of iCloud’s goodies, one at a time. They’re described in the order they appear in System Preferences→iCloud (Figure 10-8).

The headquarters of iCloud’s features. You’ll find a nearly identical pane on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch (in Settings→iCloud).

Figure 10-8. The headquarters of iCloud’s features. You’ll find a nearly identical pane on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch (in Settings→iCloud).

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