Not sure when iCloud on the web got this good, finally becoming a legit alternative to Google Drive or OneDrive

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They have lately been improving their web apps a lot, but once you can edit sheets on Proton Drive and has a Linux client, I am gonna switch.

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You re going to switch to which, proton? I just started switching back from proton drive to iCloud. Also switching back to Password from proton pass. They were both just such a hassle, it wasn’t at all worth it for me.

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I am a long time Bitwarden user (since the first lastpass breach), how is passwords? Does it have an import function?

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It sure does. Basically Apple took the iCloud password function and made it into a separate app, which is a big improvement on something that worked pretty darn well already.

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I just recently imported all my passwords from Bitwarden to passwords. It’s been smooth sailing so far, very happy with my choice. If you have any specific questions I might be able to answer them.

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A very convoluted export function though. They really try to lock you in as hard as they can.

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The import will fail if you have multiple passwords for the same domain. Actually, just those items will fail, not the whole import. But if you want to again switch to a different service, I don’t see any good export options.

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Does Apple Password have an addon for Firefox?

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I don’t believe so, I think it is chrome and edge only (besides safari of course). You could still manually copy-paste the passwords but of course that’s not as convenient.

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I have not investigated

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That’s unfortunate.

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You can use Libreoffice and upload the files to Proton Drive

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iCloud has come some ways but there is still a huge feature disparity between it and competitors like Google.

iCloud is a good accessory if you’re already somewhat involved in Apple’s ecosystem but you have to pay if you want more than a fraction of a thimbleful of storage and it lacks many basic features and compatibilities. iCloud Drive in particular is extremely barebones and completely overshadowed by Google, Proton, and Microsoft.

Also another thing is that cloud suites need to be platform agnostic and iCloud is very ass when used from the web. This will continue to be a major thing holding it back until Apple accepts that iCloud won’t truly succeed until they stop giving an inferior experience to non-Apple devices.

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iCloud Photos for some reason still only allows you to upload JPEG files from the web. Can’t even upload HEIC which makes absolutely no sense considering it’s now their main photo format.

But yeah, other than that it’s pretty good.

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