How to use iCloud.com to access mail, contacts, calendars, photos, and more

By Joseph Keller
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How to connect to iCloud via iCloud.com
How to connect to iCloud via iCloud.com

iCloud.com is a great way to access all of your iCloud data whether you're on a Mac or PC. Just sign in and you can use apps like Mail, Photos, and even the iWork suite in your browser. Any changes you make on iCloud.com sync to your devices, just as they would if you made them on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You can also recover information that you had previously deleted from iCloud.com — here's how!

How to access iCloud.com from any web browser to use mail, contacts, calendars, and more

Using the iCloud.com web apps is as simple as opening a browser and signing in.

  1. Launch any web browser on any computer.
  2. Go to iCloud.com.

Launch browser, go to iCloud.com
  1. Enter your iCloud email address and password.
  2. Click on the arrow or hit Enter or Return on your keyboard.

Enter email and password, click arrow

Now that you're signed in, you can access your email, calendars, and even iWork for iCloud. Just click on the icon of the web app you want to use and you're good to go.

How to use iCloud Photo Library on the web

The Photos apps for iOS and Mac are fast, convenient, and pack a lot of punch with their convenient features, but there might come a time when you don't have either device — or their photo libraries — available to you.

If you use Apple's iCloud Photo Library service, however, you can access every image or video you've stored on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad — either from another device of yours logged in to iCloud or straight from any web browser.

How to view, download, and share your photos on iCloud.com

Joseph Keller
Joseph Keller

Joseph Keller is the former Editor in Chief of iMore. An Apple user for almost 20 years, he spends his time learning the ins and outs of iOS and macOS, always finding ways of getting the most out of his iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac.

3 Comments
  • I’m trying to figure out why I can’t seem to get it to work on any of my browsers on Windows 10 slow ring. Any ideas?
  • I think it's trash that Apple won't let you login from a WebBrowser on iOS. I have a few elderly people I assist. One lost her iPhone and called me frantic. She had to wait until I was home a few hours later to login to her account for FMiP (she trusted me with her password) because mighty Apple decided that I couldn't login from my phone, and walking her through the FMiP app herself would've been impossible with her in that state. They also don't have a well known app that will let me login to someone else's iCloud from my phone to verify WITHOUT the risk of her data merging with mine. 1000000000x more comfortable doing so from a browser, but Apple thinks it knows better. If I logged in from a browser, they could still give her the "do you approve" from her iPad, but noooo.....
  • It's annoying that they block it, although all they're doing is a simple browser UserAgent check, so if you get a browser from the App Store that allows you to change the UserAgent, you can just imitate a desktop browser. "Lunascape" and "Sleipnir Mobile" are two free options that allow you to do this