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How To Easily Upload Your Documents To iCloud
Mar 11, 2025
A how-to about uploading your documents to iCloud.
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how you can use pages on the Mac with
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the iOS version using iCloud now just a
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couple things before I get into this
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it's no way a full solution and it's not
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very seamless at all so it's not
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something that you can really count on
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for everyday use if you're going to use
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Pages like this all the time uh but it
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is a little bit of a workaround so it is
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what it is so basically
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the way iCloud works is it actually
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stores files on your computer for iCloud
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so if I just make a new document here
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and let's drag a couple Graphics in so
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let's put the cult Mac logo in here and
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let's go down here and let's type test
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this is a test and uh you know we can do
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some formatting so let's make this a
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littleit bigger bold something like that
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now we have a
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document now normally to get this
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document on your iOS device uh to use
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the iOS version of pages whether it be
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on the iPhone or iPad you'd have to
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either email it to yourself upload it to
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iwork.com using something like the share
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tool in here or you could possibly bring
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your device into iTunes and sync the
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file through iTunes that way but because
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the iCloud documents are actually stored
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on your Mac in a certain folder you can
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actually save your document to the
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folder and it'll upload right to iCloud
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so basically when I go up to file and
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save instead of just saving out of my
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desktop or my documents folder or
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whatever I'm going to actually click my
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home directory and inside my home
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directory I'm going to go to the library
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folder and in here you're going to see a
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mobile documents folder right here now
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these are all the apps that store data
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in iCloud so we're going to use Pages
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cuz it is Pages now in the documents
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folder is where all the documents that
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are stored on the iOS version of pages
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are stored so if we save this and we'll
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call this uh demo and if we save this
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document right inside this folder if you
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look on the iOS device you can see that
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in just a couple seconds the document's
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actually going to pop up because it is
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saved here and you can see it says demo
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and it's going to update the document
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and what I can do is I can open the
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document right on here and you you'll
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see the same document we just saved so
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this is really handy if you want to
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start working on a document on your Mac
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and you want to quickly save it to
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iCloud so that you can work on it on the
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go and just pick up your iPad run out
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the door whatever and be able to still
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work on your document and it's much
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faster than using an emailing to
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yourself method or you know uploading to
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iwork.com it's just a lot easier so
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you'd probably think that if you went
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back to edit this on your Mac later
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let's say you got back that you could
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just go back into Library and down to
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mobile documents and over to pages and
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documents and you could just open up the
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do Pages file that you saved before
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right well you can't actually uh because
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once you open the file on your iOS
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device it turns it into demo. Pages
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DTF so basically it uses a slightly
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different file layout on the iOS version
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so it doesn't save it as just pages and
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this is where it becomes a little more
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tricky because now no longer once you've
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opened it on your device can you go back
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and just use it like you would on your
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Mac so really this is kind of a one-way
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solution as I discussed earlier and it's
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not very seamless but now this file
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isn't gone forever of course you could
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export the document on your device and
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mail it back to yourself or use the
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iTunes method or whatever you
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choose so it's really only a one-way
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thing it's easy to upload your new
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documents from Mac
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iCloud using pages but it's not easy to
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do it in reverse now if you're really
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adamant about sticking to doing it all
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through the Mac instead of having to
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worry about emailing which would in this
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case be a little bit easier I found a
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way that you can actually turn these
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Pages DTF files back into openable
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documents on your Mac so basically
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you're going to have to save another
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copy of the document to your
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Mac and I'll save this to my desktop
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and now you can see I the document on my
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desktop so this is called demo. pages
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right now if I call it demo. zip I can
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use zip and now this is turned into a
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zip document and if I open this up
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here's the contents of the document so
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if I go into the pages D TEF document
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here which is actually a folder and I
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bring over the
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index.xml file and I put it in there and
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I put in all the graphics I need into
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there as well I can go back over here
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and rename this demo. Pages TEF file and
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I can take off the demo. pages use.
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pages and I can actually open this back
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up on the Mac now there's always going
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to be conflict sometimes the formatting
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is not going to be good uh but you know
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that's it is how it is now of course
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after going through all that trouble it
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would probably be easier just to export
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the document on your device device mail
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it to yourself or something like that
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but the main focus of this is that you
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can easily very easily save files from
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ior to iCloud and it's not a
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functionality that's built in so it's
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actually really handy so there you go
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that's how to use pages on the Mac with
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iCloud of course if you have anything
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that you'd like to see me do a how to on
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make sure to send me an email I hope you
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found this video useful and thank you
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for watching