iCloud User Guide
- Welcome
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
- Customize and use the homepage tiles
- Apple Invites
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
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- Photos on iCloud.com overview
- View your photos and videos
- Browse photos or videos by date
- Hide your photos and videos
- Upload and download photos
- Add or edit a title, caption, or other metadata
- Organize photos and videos
- Add photos and videos to Favorites
- Play a slideshow of photos
- Delete and recover photos and videos
- Recover files and information
- Use iCloud on your Windows device
- Get more help with iCloud
- Legal notices and acknowledgements
- Copyright and trademarks
Organize files and folders in iCloud Drive on iCloud.com
You can organize files and folders in iCloud Drive. Your changes appear on all your devices that have iCloud Drive turned on.
If you’re trying to organize a shared file or folder, see Add or remove shared files and folders in iCloud Drive on iCloud.com.
Create a folder
Go to icloud.com/iclouddrive, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Select
in the iCloud Drive toolbar.If you don’t see the button, make sure you’re not viewing the Recents or Recently Deleted folder. See View files and folders in iCloud Drive.
Tip: To add a folder inside an existing folder, navigate to the existing folder before selecting
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Rename a file or folder
Go to icloud.com/iclouddrive, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Select the file or folder, then select
in the top-right corner.Choose Rename and enter a name.
Duplicate a file
Go to icloud.com/iclouddrive, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Select the file, then select
in the top-right corner.Choose Duplicate.
The duplicated file appears in the same folder as the original, and it has the same name with a number added to the end. For example, if you duplicated a file named “Personal Budget,” the new file is named “Personal Budget 2.”
You can save it with a new name, as described in the task above.
Move an item to a folder
Go to icloud.com/iclouddrive, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Select any files and folders that you want to move to another folder, then select
in the top-right corner.Choose Move to Folder, select a folder, then select Move.
You can also move files by dragging them to the folder icon. If you want to move a file to a parent folder, drag the item to the small folder icon at the bottom of the iCloud Drive window.
You can only move a file into an app’s folder if the app can open the file. For example, a file you move to the Pages folder must be a Pages document, Word document, or other kind of file Pages can open.