Apple officially announced that the iCloud "Documents and Data" feature will be discontinued next year

Recently, Apple issued an announcement, announcing that its own iCloud "Documents & Data" service will be discontinued in May 2022, and will be completely replaced by iCloud Drive. At that time, your account and data will also be migrated to iCloud Drive after this day.

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After the migration is successful, you can log in to your Apple ID on iOS or iPadOS, open Settings, [your name], tap iCloud to open the cloud drive, where you can directly view the contents of the original "Documents & Data".

If you're using macOS, you can also find your files under iCloud in the Finder.

In addition to the automatic upgrade of the system upon expiration, you can also manually upgrade yourself. You only need to log in to iCloud, select iCloud Drive, and click "Upgrade to iCloud Drive" to complete the upgrade.

This measure is a good thing for our users. Why do we say that? Let Master Feng explain it slowly!

First of all, let's pick an app and check its storage status in the settings. We will find that the documents and data take up the most memory, up to several GB. The app itself is not very large, only a few hundred MB, and we cannot delete or clean up those documents and data. Even if we clean up the cache in the app, it only frees up a little space.

But after Apple took this measure, we can view or delete it in iCloud cloud disk. In other words, the data storage that was originally only visible to the application is now visible to the user. We can clearly understand what data the application has collected, and we can also clean it up.