Apple makes iCloud.com appear to be a iPad homescreen

Apple has up to date iCloud.com to make the positioning appear and feel considerably extra trendy, including widget-like tiles that present you data from photographs, notes, mail, and extra (via MacRumors). It’s a giant change from the earlier model of the positioning, which mainly simply confirmed a handful of icons that acted as hyperlinks to net apps, and ought to be a welcome improve for anybody who has to frequently entry their iCloud knowledge from a browser fairly than an app working on an iPhone or Mac.

With the brand new design, which was out there to beta testers final month, you’ll be able to customise your iCloud.com homepage, including tiles that may present your most up-to-date photographs, emails, paperwork, calendar occasions, notes, and extra. Like with most iOS widgets, although, you’ll nonetheless have to leap into the apps if you wish to do something with that information; when you click on the tick circle subsequent to a reminder, you’ll simply be taken to the Reminders net app. It’ll present you the place the listing lives with the reminder you clicked, however you’ll should click on the circle once more when the net app masses to really mark the duty as accomplished.

Still, it’s good to have the ability to see some essential information at a look, and to have some choices about what information the house web page places front-and-center.

The pages that allow you to handle your iCloud account settings from a browser have additionally gotten a recent coat of paint; this PCMag article affords a good suggestion of what they used to appear to be.

In phrases of what you’ll be able to truly do with the positioning, I didn’t discover any groundbreaking new options. The iCloud variations of apps like Pages and Numbers get updated at their own cadence, and largely really feel the identical as they did the final time I used them. For anybody who frequently has to make use of these net apps, although, the expertise of attending to them from iCloud.com ought to be only a bit nicer now.