Apple transforms iCloud.com into an iPad homescreen

Apple has updated iCloud.com, adding widget-like tiles to show you information from notes, photos, and mail.via MacRumors). It’s a big change from the previous version of the site, which basically just showed a handful of icons that acted as links to web apps, and should be a welcome upgrade for anyone who has to regularly access their iCloud data from a browser rather than an app running on an iPhone or Mac.

The new design was Last month, beta testers had access to this informationYou can make your iCloud.com homepage more personal by adding tiles to display your recent photos, emails and documents. Like with most iOS widgets, though, you’ll still have to jump into the apps if you want to do anything with that info; if you click the tick circle next to a reminder, you’ll just be taken to the Reminders web app. It’ll show you where the list lives with the reminder you clicked, but you’ll have to click the circle again when the web app loads to actually mark the task as completed.

Still, it’s nice to be able to see some important info at a glance, and to have some options about what info the home page puts front-and-center.

Pages that allow you to manage your iCloud account settings via a browser also got a new coat of paint. This PCMagArticleThis gives you a good idea about what they looked like in the past.

You can actually do it! Do with the site, I didn’t notice any groundbreaking new features. Get iCloud versions for apps such as Pages and Numbers UpdatedVisit their website Your own cadenceThey feel almost the same as the last time I used them. Anyone who uses those web apps regularly should find the experience of accessing them via iCloud.com a lot more pleasant.