I have set up all my mac devices to sync with iCloud and all work except for email. When I delete on one device, the delete doesn't occur on the other devices.

I have set up all my mac devices to sync with iCloud and all applications work except for email. Incoming messages appear on all devices but when I delete on one device, the delete doesn't occur on the other devices.

Thank you for your interest. I use apple mail to access my two accounts -I guess they are 3rd party accounts. One is a gmail acount and the other is a bigpond account. I admit to a lack of a high level of literacy when it comes to the language around all of this. For example, I am aware that I have an iCloud email account as I managed to set it up, but don't really understand the purpose of it as the last thing I need is yet another email account to oversee.

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Help. I just got a new iPad 2 and set up sync with iCloud and no password. Now asking for a password and I never set one up. What password does it want: iTunes, iPhone (no real password there either). Tried as many passwords as I could think with the iPad locking me out since I don't have the password! Would like to use the iPad but can't get on to try it.
Thanks.
Desparate

So I guess it will only be new apps that I download that are allowed to give me their updates while 13 updates wait for me on an ID I can no longer access.
Yes... sorry.
In the future, if need be, you can re download your purchases for free > Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
Good rule of thumb is to back up your purchases regardless > Mac App Store: Backing up your app purchases

I have my contacts synced with icloud and exchange. I want all of them to be synced via icloud, I have tried turning contacts off and then clicking merge but that doesn't copy all of them over. How do I transfer all contacts onto my phone and then icloud?

I have my contacts synced with icloud and exchange. I want all of them to be synced via icloud, I have tried turning contacts off and then clicking merge but that doesn't copy all of them over. How do I transfer all contacts onto my phone and then icloud?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
If you can't do this on a computer, which would be much easier using drag and drop, then you will need to share the contacts with yourself in order to move them to the iCloud account.

HT204150 iCloud and my iPhone sync okay but my second Mac does not sync with iCloud. What's wrong?

iCloud and my iPhone sync okay but my second Mac does not sync with iCloud. What's wrong?

Check your settings in System Preferences > iCloud

Looking for a good document on family syncing with iCloud and multiple iOS devices

We have recently migrated off of Android devices for the whole family except for a Kindle Fire HD for my daughter. We all have an iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch type device that we want to sync our family calendars/reminders/notes to. Is there a good document on how to setup this family environment so that our notes/reminders/appointments are all in sync on each other's device. That way we all know what each other is doing. Do we each have to have a separate Apple ID or do we all share the same Apple ID to make this syncing work. I think I get how to make this work between my PC, 2 - iPhones (work and personal) and iCloud Web. Now how do I layer on my other family members into my calendar digital Cloud? HELP ME PLEASE. I HAVE A DIGITAL MESS.
Right now I have a personal Apple ID for my personal devices, new iPhone 6 Plus coming. I have a separate Apple ID for my Work iPhone 4s. My wife and kids have iPhone 5s. Wife and son have an iPad.
Please tell me I don't have to go see Rush Limbaugh to figure out how to make all this work.
Thanks,
Bob

You could each have separate iCloud accounts with separate IDs, and also share a "family" account for syncing a family calendar, notes and reminders. That will allow you to maintain still keep your contacts, and other data and photo streams separated while having access to the shared the family data in the secondary account. It also gives everyone their own free 5GB of storage for their backups, etc. The shared family calendar, notes and reminders will appear alongside your other calendars, notes and reminders in the corresponding apps on your devices. You'll just need to be sure to select the correct account within these apps when entering data to ensure it is added to either your personal or the shared family account.
To do this, create your primary accounts in the usual way, by going to Settings>iCloud and signing in with separate IDs and turn on the data sets you want to sync with iCloud. Then create a secondary account by going to Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Add Account>iCloud and signing in with a different ID and have everyone add this account to their devices as a shared family account. You can sync mail, contacts, calendars, notes and reminders with the secondary account, although you may want to just turn on calendars, notes and reminders.
You can continue to share the same iTunes store ID on all devices if you wish. It does not need to be the same as the ID you use for iCloud. Also, each person should use their own ID (such as the primary iCloud ID) for iMessage and FaceTime, otherwise you'll end up getting each other's text messages and FaceTime calls.
If you don't want to do all of this, and are primarily concerned about sharing your calendars, you can do that as explained here: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mm6b1a8694.
Another option to consider is to look into the new Family Sharing feature of iOS 8 if all of your devices will support iOS 8: https://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/family-sharing/. The details on this haven't been released yet but should start to appear after it is released tomorrow.

Can I limit the devices that sync with iCloud?

I have a MacBook Pro, iMac, iPhone and and iPad. Can I determine which devices sync with iCloud? I don't want all files on all devices.

On each device you can go to Settings [or System preferences]>icloud and turn on the services you want that device to use.

ICal calendars on my Mac don't sync with iCloud

Am I missing something? When I configured iCloud, I noticed that I suddenly had duplicates of my Address Book and Calenders. My Mac can sync with my phone, my phone can sync with iCloud, but I can't sync my Mac with iCloud.
Maybe I'm too lazy and haven't read enough about it, but it seems like a total cluster.
So now, when I want to update my calendar on my Mac, I have to go to iCloud instead of using iCal.
Anyway, if I'm missing something... feel free to point it out. No offense taken

I have something similar and i will try to explain with my rusty english.
I have an ID on iCloud but i can't sync the iCal events.
On my mac there is everythign (appointment, notes birthdays and so on). On my iCloud there is nothing.
I suppose was something related with the old ID (one just for ichat, not one of the ID that you pay to receive extra services or a @me.com account).
Now, as soon as the icloud features was installed on my Macbook Air I signed a new ID and initially everything worked fine. Emails on Mail and contacts were syncronized properly but with the new ID. i did not check iCal account.
So i tried also with the old one (the ichat ID) and all was sync. So i realized that maybe Apple recognized same account or name and merge all the ID in just one.
I was wrong.
The 2 ID's are not linked.
further checks add also this new weird stuff. in any case i cant sync ical accounts. i tried to switch from one to another ID. no way. i checked preferences in iCal on the mac. everything is fine. no way.
do uu have any idea?

IOS devices not syncing with iCloud

iCloud is active on both my iTouch and iPad. Photos are appearing on both devices, fine. I have access to my iCloud account on my Windows PC and my documents are showing in iWork on there. However, my devices are not syncing with documents etc. I have spreadsheets in Numbers on my iPad, but the iTouch is not showing them. If I try to access my iCloud account through Safari on iPad, it's not taking me to the log in page, but asking me to set up iCloud. Any ideas anyone, or am I being a bit stupid :-)

Hi. Thanks for the post. I understand now about the iCloud.com issue. However, I'm still not syncing my documents etc from Numbers, Pages etc that I've created on the iPad. The apps are on my iTouch, but without the documents I have on my iPad. I don't understand why because my photos are streaming between devices no problem. The docs are also showing in iWork when I log into my iCloud account on my PC. Help! :-)

Safari-Bookmarks won't sync with iCloud and other devices, MobileMe still "active"?

Hello, I've got a problem with my iMac runnning 10.7.5
"He" does not want to sync bookmarks (safari) from the local iMac to anywhere else.
(I also use a Macbook white, iPad 1 and iPhone 4).
Not to other devices, not to iCloud.
I can switch off and on the "sync bookmarks"-checkbox as often as i want - nothing happens after "merge".
One ore maybe interesting Information:
In my system-Settings i can still click on "MobileMe" and the button "move to iCloud" ist still shown.
If I press the button, I see the Erorr-message "mobileme has ended" or something linke this.
If I start the MobileMe-"Application", I get an error after some seconds "service not available".
Some months ago i changed from a older iMac to the newer one (using TimeMachine-Restore).
I can not remember if the problem came with this switch or not.
Any hints?
Thanks!
Greetings from the cold Germany.

Yes, I could disconnect from Mobileme but this does not change anything regarding the problem.
bookmarks are still not transfered to other devices.
In the system-Settings, the mobileMe-Entry is still available and I coud try to "sign on to mobileme"
Disable and enable bookmark-sync after disconnecting from mobileme does not change anything.
The Merge of the Bookmars (question comes after disable and enable again) takes ohly 0,0005 seconds to merge. Very fast.
One more thing: if I log on to iCloud, I can nowhere find anything regarding bookmarks.
Where to find the bookmarks online normally??? I remember some years ago, using the running mobileme-service, i could access my bookmarks from any pc all around the world...
Any further hints?

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Connect the phone to wifi and your charger, lock the screen and wait 24 hours to see if it will automatically back up again; or
Back it up to your computer instead by connecting it to your computer, opening iTunes and going to File>Devices>Back Up, then File>Devices>Transfer Purchases. Then you'll either have to find software that will transfer data from an iTunes backup rather than an iCloud backup.*
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TS3988 Trouble with Syncing with iCloud and my Mac (and iPhone)

I have moved my @me.com account to iCloud. Now it doesn't sync with any my devices. I can access iCloud itself and have full view of calendars, etc. They are incorrect as they are not synced with my Mac and doesn't update my iPhone. I have tried to check my account subscription but cannot find it on iCloud.
Can anyone help?
Warm regards
Jeff

Welcome to the Apple community.
First check that all your settings are correct, that calendar syncing is checked on all devices (system preferences > iCloud on a mac and settings > iCloud on a iPhone, iPad or iPod).
Make sure the calendars you are using are in your 'iCloud' account and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud account (you can do this by clicking/tapping the calendar button in the top left corner of the application ), non iCloud calendars will not sync.
If you are sure that everything is set up correctly and your calendars are in the iCloud account, you might try unchecking calendar syncing in the iCloud settings, restarting your device and then re-enabling calendar syncing settings.

I updated to iOS 6.1 I merged it with icloud and all of my contacts dissapeared on my phone.

Checked icloud on my computer - and nothing there. HELP
All of my calendar info & messages are still there.
Any tips?

You may even have a back up on the computer if you sync the contacts to there.
If you have an iCloud back up and are sure the contacts are on it, you might try the following.
The difficulty in restoring iCloud data from a back up is that the back up is older than the current version on iCloud and anything that is restored gets removed again when an iCloud sync occurs.
Ensure the device is connected to your local network.
Start the restore from iCloud back up.
Allow the devices settings to restore (watch for the confirmation of completion).
As the apps begin to restore pull the connection to your router WAN port (the one that goes to the telephone point).
Wait for the time out confirmation.
Navigate to settings > iCloud and turn off contact syncing (keep contacts when prompted).
Reconnect the router to the internet and let the restore process complete.
Delete any iCloud contacts from iCloud.com on a computer.
Navigate to settings > iCloud and turn on contact syncing (merge contacts when prompted).
May I suggest that you carry out a back up to iTunes before you try anything, that way should things become even worse, you can at least restore back to where you are now.

Address book empty on mac, won't sync with iCloud

Hi everyone,
I've got a Macbook running Lion and an iPhone running iOS5, I'm using iCloud to sync. I discovered today that my Address book on my macbook is empty. On my iPhone, I have all of the sync services turned on in iCloud. I also have iCloud set up on the macbook, but the contacts box is unchecked. If I check the box in iCloud preferences, it won't stay that way. Once I close the preferences pane and reopen it, the checkbox is empty again.
I'm not sure if this is a related issue, but this is also driving me nuts. I have an exchange account that I no longer use that will not go away no matter how many times I delete it. I can delete it from "mail, contacts & calendars" and in my address book, but it comes back every time.
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DId you sync you iPod on another computer? If so the photos are gone.
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