Apple's iCloud.com website now available with iWork, Find My iPhone
As part of Wednesday's roll-out of iOS 5 and the iCloud functionality heavily integrated within it, Apple also brought online its iCloud.com website.
Users can simply sign in to set up an iCloud account at the newly launched iCloud.com by using their Apple ID, the same identification used to make purchases on Apple's App Store.
Upon signing in, users are asked to select their language and pick a time zone. The site then presents five options in the form of iOS-style icons.
From there, users can check their mail, review their contacts, view calendars, use the "Find My iPhone" feature to locate a device, and access the Web-based version of iWork.
With iCloud, documents from Apple's iWork applications for iOS -- Pages, Keynote and Numbers -- are stored online and kept up to date. With it, users will be able to access the latest version of their documents, no matter what device they are reading or editing them on. For more, see AppleInsider's in-depth look at iCloud's new Documents & Data service.
iCloud serves as a replacement for its predecessor, MobileMe. Unlike MobileMe, iCloud is free to all iOS 5 and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion users, and offers 5GB of storage, while more can be purchased.
Developers have been testing iCloud with iOS 5 and Lion applications for months. Wednesday marks the first time that the general public has been able to utilize iCloud.
The debut of iCloud comes ahead of the launch of iOS 5, scheduled to happen later today. iOS 5 will be available for download for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Users must first upgrade to iTunes 10.5, released on Tuesday, in order to update their mobile device.
Users can simply sign in to set up an iCloud account at the newly launched iCloud.com by using their Apple ID, the same identification used to make purchases on Apple's App Store.
Upon signing in, users are asked to select their language and pick a time zone. The site then presents five options in the form of iOS-style icons.
From there, users can check their mail, review their contacts, view calendars, use the "Find My iPhone" feature to locate a device, and access the Web-based version of iWork.
With iCloud, documents from Apple's iWork applications for iOS -- Pages, Keynote and Numbers -- are stored online and kept up to date. With it, users will be able to access the latest version of their documents, no matter what device they are reading or editing them on. For more, see AppleInsider's in-depth look at iCloud's new Documents & Data service.
iCloud serves as a replacement for its predecessor, MobileMe. Unlike MobileMe, iCloud is free to all iOS 5 and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion users, and offers 5GB of storage, while more can be purchased.
Developers have been testing iCloud with iOS 5 and Lion applications for months. Wednesday marks the first time that the general public has been able to utilize iCloud.
The debut of iCloud comes ahead of the launch of iOS 5, scheduled to happen later today. iOS 5 will be available for download for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Users must first upgrade to iTunes 10.5, released on Tuesday, in order to update their mobile device.
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What if you want to sign in with your MobileMe ID which is NOT your Apple ID for making purchases? where is the conversion tutorial?
As part of Wednesday's roll-out of iOS 5 and the iCloud functionality heavily integrated within it, Apple also brought online its iCloud.com website.
Users can simply sign in to set up an iCloud account at the newly launched iCloud.com by using their Apple ID, the same identification used to make purchases on Apple's App Store.
Except it's not accepting my AppleID.
Tried it at iTunes and works fine. Tried it at APP store and works fine. iCloud - nada!
So it kicks me over to MobileMe, which after login displays that my Account is not yet eligible for Upgrade. Only iCloud developers.
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I hope that I am jumping the gun here and this is not the start of a MobileMe -> iCloud fiasco.
Shouldn't they do that transparently?
right now, everything has to be a @me.com account... i do not need / want more email addresses..
i hope that Apple will allow for my iTunes ID, which is my real email address to become an alias for sending mail....
right now, everything has to be a @me.com account... i do not need / want more email addresses..
I clicked, it has to add up to 3 alias' but they all have to be @me.com
which is worthless. i will stick with google, i can use any alias i want as long as it has been verified.
It must be rolling out in stages. No go here in Central West Florida yet. I am curious ... where are you folks located who are already gaining access?
i have a dev license... been in the Find my Phone part of iCloud for over a month. Now, the rest of the stuff is available.
which is worthless. i will stick with google, i can use any alias i want as long as it has been verified.