How Does iCloud Sync Your iDevice Content

iCloud's Integration with iOS 7

Generally speaking, you manually have to transfer your files to and from the "cloud" for most of cloud-based file-sharing services serve mainly as a place in cyberspace to remotely store files. Thanks to iCloud's integration with iOS 7, many of the core apps that come with the latest version of mobile operating system, as well as third-party apps, automatically keep data and files created or managed using those apps synchronized with other devices and/or your primary computer that's also linked to the same iCloud account.

How Does iCloud Sync Your iDevice Content

Turn on or off iCloud support for all compatible apps from within Settings on your iPhone or iPad. Compatible apps include Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Safari, Notes, Photos, and Mail (relating only to your free iCloud-related email account).

For example, when you turn on the Contacts app in Setting interface of the iCloud, all your computers and/or other iOS devices linked to your iCloud account will automatically sync your contacts data with iCloud. Thus, if you add or update a contact entry on your iPhone, that change automatically synchronizes and becomes available within the Contacts app running on your other iOS devices.

As you surf the Web using Safari, when you turn on iCloud syncing functionality related to Safari, all of your Bookmarks along with your Reading List info and open browser window/tabs data are synced automatically via iCloud.

It also works with the Calendar and Reminders apps, for example. If you add an appointment using the Calendar app on your iPad, that new information immediately and automatically synchronizes to all your linked computers and devices.

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