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It wasn't mentioned in the keynote, so you may not have heard of it.

<http://www.pcworld.com/article/2933072/new-icloud-drive-app-will-let-io
s-9-users-more-easily-manage-files.html>

New iCloud Drive app will let iOS 9 users more easily manage files

Users who store files in Apple¹s iCloud Drive will have an easier time
managing them when iOS 9 launches later this year.

The next update to Apple¹s mobile operating system will include an
iCloud Drive app that lets people view and manage all of the files
stored in Apple¹s cloud from a central location. Previously, iOS users
could only access those files from inside an app that accessed iCloud
Drive, which was released last year in iOS 8. OS X Yosemite, which was
released in 2014, let users manage all of their iCloud Drive files in a
special folder, similar to functionality offered by Dropbox and other
cloud storage providers.

Toby Paterson, an engineering manager at Apple, announced the app
during Apple¹s Platforms State of the Union session at WWDC, and said
it was aimed at Mac users who were accustomed to managing their files
from a central location rather than doing so inside individual apps.
Users can preview the files in their iCloud Drive from within the app,
and open them in another application for modification. The app¹s
announcement was left out of Apple¹s keynote Monday morning, where
Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi unveiled
iOS 9.

Launching a standalone app for the service pushes it closer to
competitors like Google Drive, Dropbox and Microsoft¹s OneDrive. It¹s
another step on Apple¹s transition away from its initial model for
saving files to iCloud, which only allowed applications to access their
own files, and kept them locked away from users. The launch of iCloud
Drive last year largely eliminated that functionality, and this new app
will let users take another step away from it by giving them access to
all their files from one location.

All of this comes at a time when tech titans are all fighting to become
the home for users¹ files in the cloud. Apple offers users 5GB of free
storage for their files, photos, and backups of their iOS devices,
while Google and Microsoft offer 15GB of free storage. Apple is also
pushing its customers towards greater iCloud use with its iCloud Photo
Library service, which syncs a user¹s entire photo library with the
cloud storage service (though those images aren¹t accessible through
iCloud Drive).

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iCloud Drive app. Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-06-10 12:30 -0700
  Re: iCloud Drive app. "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> - 2015-06-11 10:10 +0000
    Re: iCloud Drive app. Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-06-11 07:02 -0700
      Re: iCloud Drive app. "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> - 2015-06-11 14:20 +0000
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          Re: iCloud Drive app. "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> - 2015-06-11 18:39 +0000
            Re: iCloud Drive app. Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-06-11 14:22 -0700
        Re: iCloud Drive app. Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-06-11 17:28 -0700
          Re: iCloud Drive app. "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-06-12 12:39 +1000
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            Re: iCloud Drive app. Mark F <mark53916@gmail.com> - 2015-06-12 07:49 -0400
          Re: iCloud Drive app. Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-06-13 08:47 -0400
            Re: iCloud Drive app. Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-06-13 06:26 -0700
              Re: iCloud Drive app. Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-06-13 10:04 -0400
                Re: iCloud Drive app. Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-06-13 07:45 -0700
                Re: iCloud Drive app. Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-06-14 08:48 -0400
    Re: iCloud Drive app. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-06-11 18:16 +0000
      Re: iCloud Drive app. David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2015-06-11 21:45 -0500
  Re: iCloud Drive app. Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-06-11 07:28 -0400
    Re: iCloud Drive app. Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-06-11 07:03 -0700
      Re: iCloud Drive app. dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-06-12 13:15 +1200
        Re: iCloud Drive app. "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> - 2015-06-12 11:05 +0000
          Re: iCloud Drive app. "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> - 2015-06-12 16:11 +0000
      Re: iCloud Drive app. Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-06-13 08:25 -0400

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