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iPad User Guide

Use iCloud on iPad

iCloud securely stores your photos, videos, documents, backups, and more—and keeps them updated across all your devices—automatically. With iCloud, you can also share photos, calendars, notes, folders, and files with friends and family. iCloud provides you with an email account and 5 GB of free storage for your data. For more storage and additional features, you can subscribe to iCloud+.

Note: Some iCloud features have minimum system requirements. The availability of iCloud and its features varies by country or region.

Set up iCloud

  1. Go to the Settings app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap your name.

    If you don’t see your name, tap Apple Account, then sign in to your Apple Account.

  3. Tap iCloud, tap See All, then turn on the apps and features you want to sync with iCloud.

    For example, turn on iCloud Drive to make your files in iCloud Drive available to your other devices.

    👁 The iCloud settings screen showing the storage meter and a list of features—including Photos, iCloud Drive, and iCloud Backup—that can be used with iCloud.

For information on how to customize iCloud features on your other devices, see Set up iCloud and change settings on all your devices in the iCloud User Guide.

Ways to use iCloud on iPad

iCloud can keep your iPad backed up automatically. See Back up iPad.

You can also keep the following information stored in iCloud and kept up to date across your iPad and other Apple devices:

You can also do the following:

For additional storage and access to iCloud Private Relay, Hide My Email, and HomeKit Secure Video support, you can subscribe to iCloud+.

You can also access your iCloud data on iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, Apple Vision Pro, Apple TV 4K, Windows devices, and iCloud.com. To learn more about the available features and how they work across all your devices, see the iCloud User Guide.

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