welcome back everyone my name is joel feld and today's video is about what to do
with the apple id account that you just created how do you make all
of your devices talk to your iphone your ipad your computer so let's dive right in
all right so i'm going to link in the description below that showed how to create an apple id and
just an overview of what an apple id actually is but after you've created it we need to then
sign into all of our devices so that we can start synchronizing the data so that
all of our devices are on the same page so let's start with the computer i'm going to
go into system preferences and when i do that at the very top here it gives me the option to
sign in with my apple id to set up the icloud the app store and more because remember icloud
apple id one of the same and they're all linked with all of the apple services that they provide
so i'm going to go ahead and do sign in and the apple id i created was learn with joel at
icloud.com we'll do next i'm going to type in my password here all right so that's going to sign in
we wait we can do the same thing on all of our other devices as well so enter my mac password
there we go now it gives me a choice to say hey allow find my mac to use the location of this dev
of this mac so this is one of the features of your apple id or your icloud account it allows you to
track where your device is so your iphone your ipad your mac it gives you the ability to say hey
now that it's tied to this account you can actually log into another computer using your
icloud or apple id and see where this device is at you can even remotely lock it you can
erase it if you think it's stolen really nice feature i'm gonna go ahead and choose allow
so now i'm signed into system preferences with my apple id and if i go back to the main menu
i can go to internet accounts and it's going to also log me in here and it's using my apple
id as the primary one for the computer because it synchronizes your photos your
all of the stuff here essentially so your icloud drive photos mail contacts calendars
reminders safari notes siri keychain which i'll actually turn on because that's for passwords
and such find my mac news stocks home so the ability this is all the information that can be
the same across all of your devices so we'll uh keep them all checked for now and then we'll come
back and kind of pick them apart later so now that i've signed into my computer with my apple id i'm
going to go ahead and do the same thing on my ipad so if i go into the settings on my ipad i can do
sign in with my account and we'll do learn with joel at icloud.com do next password next
here it pops up saying hey uh i need a verification code to make sure that
you're a legitimate person so notice what happened on my mac it's saying
hey your apple id is being used to sign into a new device your apple id is being used to sign in
to an ipad near the location the location i don't even live in buffalo that's like
40 30 miles away from me but still relatively close but it's not a hundred percent accurate
so what i'm going to do here is choose allow and then it gives me this code here on the
screen for me to enter in onto my ipad so i'm going to type that six one two zero zero seven
and then that's going to give the ability to actually sign into my device that i have so if
you're signing into multiple devices if i had an iphone to sign into it's going to give me the same
message so i can choose done on my mac and notice on the ipad here it's just kind of waiting for
it to do its thing sign in saying hey enter the passcode on your ipad and now i'm signed in on my
ipad with that same apple id now if i go to icloud here notice it has the same exact choices that
we saw on the computer here under the apple id so this is how you tell your devices what information
to synchronize with with one another and let's just use an example let's say notes notes is a
good place to use so that you can visually see the notes that are associated with this account
so if i click on notes here on the ipad i'm sorry on the computer yep i'll do continue
and i'm just going to create a new note create a new note and this is test note that syncs
with icloud on my ipad so now if i exit out of my ipad here and i go to my notes
and here it is so it shows me on the left hand side
i have a category of notes and here is that very first note and if i wanted to add to this
and say hello press return when i come back to my ipad once it synchronizes there's that response
so this whole concept of everything is in the cloud and everything shoots up to the internet to
shoot it to another device this is how we tell our devices what information to synchronize so if i
came across the scenario where i was adding notes on my ipad and they're just not showing up on my
on my computer or my iphone we want to make sure that within the settings here that we have
notes turned on in all three locations or all four locations whatever devices that you have
now the same thing goes with facetime with messages um so if i scroll down here on
the left-hand side because a lot of us like to have text messaging associated with with our um
with our icloud or our apple id so notice here imessage is turned on i can send and
receive messages with that email address and what that means now is if i open up messages
on either my mac or my ipad i'll open it up on my ipad here if i just text message myself
type in my cell phone number and say hello so i'm going to get a text message on my personal
phone and what it shows is actually it's the email i'll show it here so it actually says the message
is from learnwithjoel at icloud.com so unlike traditional text messages your text message is
coming from your apple id your email address to someone because it uses wi-fi over the internet
to send that text message now if i respond back to that on my cell phone i can say
new apple id yay so i'll respond to that and then the response comes here and also notice if i come
to my ipad here i can go under messages and here's that whole conversation there for me
and it'll show up on my ipad as well so that's kind of the the concept of the synchronization
amongst all of your devices now this is a brand new account that i just created and i want to
show you the third place where you can access this information that's not only on your ipad or phone
not only on your mac through the system preferences but also from any computer so imagine
that this computer here was not my computer maybe i'm at a library or using someone else's computer
if i go out to safari and i go to icloud.com so this is what icloud looks like and notice
it says apple id and like i said before apple id and icloud think of them almost as one of the same
because they get you to the same spot you should really only have one apple id account that you
use for everything you can have more in some cases there's a reason for that but for the
most part make your life easy have one apple id that kind of covers your basis for everything
now this is where i can go to sign in learn with joel at icloud.com
and i can sign in with my password and notice again uh it says hey
someone is trying to sign into icloud.com with your device do you want to allow it and notice it
popped up not only on my mac because i'm on my mac but it also popped up on my ipad and if i touch
allow on either device i will get a code that i can then type in so two zero one three five eight
that way for security reasons it knows it's me and and everything so now this is the very first time
i've logged into icloud.com to see my account and remember this is no different than logging into
gmail.com or yahoo.com or hotmail.com because icloud is an email service because i created a
brand new apple id with the intent of creating it with an email address from apple so i'm going to
go ahead and do continue and i'm going to say yes i will trust this browser because it's my computer
if it were someone else's computer or i was at a coffee shop or a library of some sort or school
i'm not going to trust that computer don't trust it unless it's yours so i'm going to do trust
and then this gives me the ability to see this whole ecosystem in the cloud environment from
any computer so it's got my email it's got my contacts my calendar same thing as we see on
the the ipad here if we go back up towards the top under icloud we see the same exact
tools here and if we go to system preferences on our mac it's the same exact options here
very very similar and notice notes is here if we click on here we should see that note that
we added on the ipad and the computer and here it is you have to be signed into all of the locations
to make sure that all of your synchronization is happening so that your apple id actually works the
way it's intended to if i touch notes in the top left i can come back and i can see everything here
pages numbers keynote that's equivalent to let's say word excel and powerpoint or google sheets
google docs and google slides whatever they call it all of the major companies all have a an online
suite of tools and these are free and it comes with your account and it's really nice to use
here's also where let's say that i was on a computer and i lost my ipad and i lost my laptop
i had the ability to do the find my iphone and if i signed in here
this will allow me to pinpoint where my device is at so that i can see where
it's where it's at if i misplace it or maybe it's stolen something like that now they've
kind of rebranded uh the icloud.com website still says find my iphone but on your mac
and your iphone and ipad they've rebranded it to say find my now currently i'm on ios 13 on
my ipad which ios 14 is going to come out soon so that could change and on my mac here i am on
catalina which is the latest one before big sur comes out so that also could change too but so
notice here i have both my macbook pro and my fellow photo ipad because that's the name of it
and this allows me to even track it i can make my ipad play a sound i can erase it i can put it in
lost mode so lots of cool different features here for icloud and your apple id now i'm going to go
ahead and sign out of the website here we'll sign out yes trust and sign out so that's kind of the
what you need to do in order to make sure that you're signed into everything so just double
check all of your settings make sure that on your ipad you're signed into the main icloud here
at the very top and then also down at the very bottom make sure you sign into messages so that
you can use imessage you can use facetime so that you're able to video chat with people
and then also if this is your brand new apple id you would sign into the itunes and app store
because this is going to allow you to download apps to make purchases rent movies buy movies
podcasts whatever it may be all of the services that apple has are all tied to your apple id
and that's kind of what you need to do and that's kind of the whole gist of it one stop
shop for all of your subscriptions and content and personal information through your one apple id
so that's kind of an overview a a video of walking you through the steps of how to synchronize data
thank you so much for watching i would love to know if you have any questions if you have any
issues with your data or your content syncing among your devices go ahead and throw a comment
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