Question

When it comes to phones, Apple is known for being easy to navigate and user friendly. However, many times we don't know how to use our devices to its full potential because we aren't fully aware of all what comes with Apple phones. As Apple release new systems, apps, and phones, how well do you know how to use systems like ICloud?

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iCloud or any system like it has a main work to store information on a remote computer, known as a cloud server, rather than locally. Google Drive, Amazon cloud drive, Dropbox, one drive are some other major cloud-based systems that store our content securely and keeps our apps up to date across all our devices.

iCloud and other systems come under the Cloud Computing field which is nothing but the delivery of computing services including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence over the internet (cloud).

Benefits of Cloud Computing -:

1. Cost -: It reduces cost to a large extent as we don't have to buy hardware or software and also the hassle of setting up data centers (in case of a company) along with that the electricity cost is brought down to zero as we only pay for internet and cloud size ( which is very less).
2. Speed -: As cloud services are managed by Tech giants like Google, Apple, Amazon so everything is speedy starting from uploading or downloading even streaming.
3. Reliability and Security -: Cloud Computing makes data backup, as well as a disaster recovery management system that gives reliability and tech giants, have wide set of policies that provides an extra layer of security to our data.

Some of the important features of iCloud

• Keeps our photos up-to-date by uploading HD pictures to the cloud and saving low-resolution images to our local system.
• Securely store and organize your files in iCloud Drive.
• Keep apps like Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Notes, and Reminders up to date across all your devices with iCloud. When you make a change on one device, your information is updated everywhere.

Almost all the apps in iPhone are managed by iCloud.