What You Need To know about iCloud Drive?

There has rarely been so much buzz about one feature of an iOS release as has been for the iCloud drive. So, what exactly is the iCloud Drive? It is nothing but a simple extension of Apple's iCloud service. Now users will recall that the iCloud has primarily been used to store backups and sync data between devices.

In the iOS 8 update, iCloud Drive will allow users to store documents on iCloud and share them between all of their devices, including the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Windows-based PCs. Similar to Airdrop Handoff, iCloud Drive is part of Apple's mission to create a seamless transition when going from one device to another.

iCloud Drive will not only allow you to work with the same document across multiple devices, but also across multiple apps. One key feature missing from the iPad is the ability to have a centralized location for storing documents. While it is possible to share a document with another app using the "Open In..." feature, each app has to support this feature and new versions of the document get created each time you use it, which makes working across multiple apps a bit disorganized.

iCloud Drive changes this, by creating an integrated place for storing documents and making it a lot more easier for you to open a document in multiple apps.

iCloud Photo Library:

iCloud Photo Library is an extension of iCloud Drive that can store every photo and every video you take from all of your iOS devices. This improves on Photo Stream by keeping the photos in the cloud, so you don't have to use up storage on your iPad or iPhone to have access to photos across all devices. It also removes Photo Stream's limitation of only keeping recent photos.

iCloud Photo Library will store all of your photos, whether they were taking last week or last year.


Once turned on, iCloud Photo Library is automatic, so you no longer need to hassle with transferring your photos to another device to free up space on your iPad or iPhone. The photos are stored in collections based on the date and location they were taken. You can also mark favorite and create custom albums. On the whole, sumptuous!