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iCloud module

What it does

iCloud projects selected modern-Mac services to the PowerPC Workshop: Drive listings and downloads, Photos listings and previews, and Contacts cards.

The macOS iCloud service and grant surface

Availability

The host serves this family and the PowerPC iCloud page asks for it. NOW-68K does not expose iCloud.

On the modern Mac

The host owns platform permissions, service availability, paging, preview conversion, and explicit refusal when a service is not granted.

On the classic Mac

The PowerPC page browses one service at a time and requests detail only after a selection. It never receives the host library wholesale.

The PowerPC iCloud page

Common tasks

  • Grant only the service needed on the host.
  • Select a Drive item, photo, or contact before asking for detail or download.

A selected contact card or photo preview

Drive paths, photos, and contacts are private data. Host permission is a real boundary; an unavailable or ungranted service must refuse, not appear empty.

Failure states

Permission denied, service disabled, item stale, preview unavailable, page expired, and transfer busy retain different explanations.

Current limitations

Messages is designed but not shipped. Real-library proof differs by service; read the detailed verification section in the engineering record.

For developers

See iCloud design and verification and host architecture.