Sharing with icloud

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With Apple’s iCloud service, you can share and collaborate on files

Collaboration has never been so easy.

There are several ways in which you can share files and collaborate using iCloud. You can even share a folder, so others can add to and delete its contents.

In Apple’s iWork apps – Pages, Numbers and Keynote – as long as a file is in iCloud Drive you can send it to another person or collaborate on it. With a group of people working on a file together, edits and changes made by one person are synced with the entire group. You can share a document from an open file; click the Share button, use the menu to set whether you send a copy of the file or invite others to collaborate on it, and then choose how you send the file or invitation. If the file isn’t in iCloud Drive, you’re invited to move it there. You can also Ctrl-click a file or folder in the iCloud Drive folder and choose Share from the contextual menu. Again, you choose to send or collaborate on it and then send the file/invitations out.

After sending invitations to collaborate, through Messages, Mail, social media or many other ways, the people that receive them can accept or decline the invite. Documents on which people are collaborating get a Collaborate button in the toolbar. Click this button to reveal a menu that enables you to manage the collaboration, inviting new members, changing the Activity Settings, viewing edits made by contributors and more.

HOW TO Collaborate with others >

If you want to invite someone to collaborate on a document, first click the Share button on an open docum