iCloud.com is something that I wish was a lot more than it is. It is weird to me they don’t have the Apple Podcast and Music website as apps in iCloud.com
I enjoyed the episode. I didn’t hear you mention (may have missed it) the one thing I use iCloud.com for - app-specific passwords.
I learned about 4-5 things I didn’t know were there, including the “hack” to get a sharable URL for view access to a document. That will be really helpful.
I had never even thought about Apple having a web-based podcast or music player until I read your post. Turns out they do.
They are handy in a pinch but their web offerings often feel like second class citizens compared to native apps. I used the apple music web player in my all PC law job.
But it makes sense. If you are on a mac or an iPhone, you are going to (either yourself or Apple’s prompting) to default to the native Application.
I love the idea of logging on to iCloud.com either to help find my phone or to use if I forgot my phone or my phone died.
My problem is logging in to iCloud.com if I don’t have an iOS device with me to authenticate. maybe I’m missing something, but it’s a terrible replacement if I can’t get on with I’m without!
Nice episode. It was mentioned several times that iCloud Drive doesn’t offer the file sharing functionality through Finder that Dropbox does. Correct me if I’m wrong, but what about the “collaborate” feature? Use iCloud to share and collaborate on files and folders – Apple Support (UK).
Maybe i heard it wrong, but you can use iCloud.com with Advanced Data Protection enabled. I use iCloud.com when i’m at work and want to read my mail, calendar or need a file. Mail and calendar are not encrypted so you can access them without issues. When accessing files (or photo’s) you will get a message on your phone to authorize access, which can then be granted for 1 hour.
If i understand correctly it does share your key with Apple also, so it might not be what you want.
iCloud.com and data access on the web
iCloud.com provides access to your iCloud data via any web browser. All sessions at iCloud.com are encrypted in transit between Apple’s servers and the browser on your device. When Advanced Data Protection is enabled, access to your data via iCloud.com is disabled by default. You have the option to turn on data access on iCloud.com, which allows the web browser that you’re using and Apple to have temporary access to data-specific encryption keys provided by your device to decrypt and view your information.
You are correct. I think they made this correction at the tail end of that segment.
I tried the colloboration iCloud on a folder to see how it compared to Dropbox share folders. It sorta worked but felt clunky and slow.
Back when I used my icloud email as my main email address , I would always try to get to icloud.com to edit server side email rules.
It was hit or miss logging into it as even “request desktop site” didn’t always work. It was frustrating that they locked email rules behind icloud.com and made it difficult for mobile users to access them!
Episode had really good timing.
Have listened to the first half, logged in and was exploring some of the features as the episode played…
I don’t use my iCloud email address for anything; but have accidentally sent one email to someone from it years ago.
Guess who sent me an email to that address the day before I started listening to the episode?
Yep. That guy. 
Y’all have nudged me into trying the cloud more.
Thanks!