The wait has been long, but finally Apple seems to have heard our prayers and has made iCloud Drive a real option for those of us who wanted a real cloud storage system. The arrival of macOS Sierra and iOS 10 marks a change in how Apple envisioned its cloud storage, and now iCloud becomes a real alternative to other conventional systems such as Dropbox, Box or Google Drive. All our files synced on our computers, iPhone and iPad, available when we need them.
macOS Sierra incorporates a new option within iCloud: the possibility of synchronizing all the files in our «Documents» folder and on the desktop. All supported devices (iOS 10 and macOS Sierra) will have access to those folders, and the changes will be synced across all of them. The dictatorship that Apple imposed on us that each application had its own folder is over, now we can have our structure of directories and subdirectories organized to our tastes and needs. In iCloud Drive we will access those folders, which obviously we also have available in Finder, in their traditional location.
Do you remember that application called iCloud Drive that you have in iOS 9 but that was completely useless for most? Well, go dust it off because now you are going to start using it if you opt for iCloud as a cloud storage system. In addition to accessing the application folders, the "Documents" and "Desktop" folders (in the betas still in English) will appear with all their content. All your documents available on your iPhone and iPad, with the possibility of editing them from the device itself. Even iCloud Drive offers some built-in editing tools for PDF files., like underlining, writing annotations, or even handwriting, ideal for iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. Now we just need Apple to decide to be more generous and give us a little more than 5GB of free account.
