Apps directory not appearing in iCloud Drive in Finder

App & System Services iCloud & Data
NSObject OP
Created Jul ’15
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Hi,


I have 2 iOS apps with which I tested iCloud Drive.

With the frst one I didn't had any trouble.

I'm able to use the iCloud Drive and files that I store in the ubiquituos container are transferred to the cloud

and I can see the Apps folder and contents in Finder on my iMac.


Now the strange thing is that with the 2nd app I get problems although I have setup everything exactly the same.

The only difference that I can see is that during the initial run of App2 with iCloud entitlements enabled I had forgotten

to add the


  <key>NSUbiquitousContainers</key>
  <dict>
       <key>iCloud.com.***.app2</key>
       <dict>
            <key>NSUbiquitousContainerIsDocumentScopePublic</key>
            <true/>   
            <key>NSUbiquitousContainerName</key>
            <string>App2</string>
            <key>NSUbiquitousContainerSupportedFolderLevels</key>
            <string>Any</string>
           </dict>
  </dict>


in the info-plist file.


I get the feeling that this screwed app the iCloud for this app and even if I now set this up correctly it refuses to work.


Any one experiencing a similar issue?

Or is there any way to reset the iCloud for an app completely and start over again?


One more thing: when using brctl I can see that items are sent/retrieved from the iCloud and they are stored in the

iCloud Drive folder on my Mac. But they are not visible in Finder.

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Hendrikvp OP
Sep ’15

Same here - any news on that?

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rschluet OP
Nov ’15

I have read that you need to increase the build number after adding the entitlements to iCloud. After doing that, I am able to save a file into the iCloud Drive; however, they are not visible in the Mac finder.

Does anyone know why?

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silvermac OP
Jan ’16

Any solutions for this? I can't figure it out and its driving me nuts

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NSObject OP
Jan ’16

I got this working now with the help from Apple.

In the end it was the CFBundleVersion that need to be increased for every version of the app.

I knew that before and during the problem I described above happened I tried a lot and also tried to

increase the CFBundleVersion. I didn't had any luck, but maybe this was because of some temporary internet

or server issue.

However, because I didn't had any luck, I stepped back to an older CFBundleVersion (a lower one).

And with that bundle version number it was not possible anymore to do any change.


So the solution was to increase the number to something I had not used beforehand for sure.

In my case I increased it to 100.


And afterwards it all started to work.

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tjgo OP
Feb ’16

My application started to work after increasing the Build Number, as you said.


Thank You.

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patrickkidd OP
Sep ’17

I am able to turn the visibiliy of the iCloud container on and off by changing 


NSUbiquitousContainerIsDocumentScopePublic


and then bumping 


CFBundleVersion


to tell macos that a change has taken place. This reliably triggers a change in the folder visibility.

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Wizfinger OP
Jul ’21

Same here, I followed every tip I could find here and on other websites, but still the folder / files are not showing up visibly.

Problem: ubiquitous container works, files can be read and written, but are not showing up in macOS Finder, nor in the Files app on iOS devices.

macOS 11.5, iOS 14.7, Xcode 12.5.1

I have tried:

It is driving me crazy. Who can help?

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duncang OP
Dec ’21

Here is a tip - and I struggled forever.

create app iCloud containers something like this

com.company.app.dev01

com.company.app.dev02

com.company.app.devxx

com.company.app.prod

If you create the container with the wrong settings than it seems that is it ! You can't get it to show up no matter what you do except create a new one, hence the naming conventions above.

Be sure to set the access as Public in info.plist BEFORE you run the app the first time !!

Also make sure all the identifiers match up in the app entitlements and on the target Signing & Capabilities page and in the apps info.plist.

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Andreas Lorentsen OP
Dec ’22

Hi,

I struggled forever with this too, but for me the app’s Icloud Drive folder suddenly became visible to Finder after I did this:

XCode:

  • Product -> Clean Build Folder
  • Build For -> Running
  • Show build location in finder

Copied my app bundle from XCode’s build folder to the /Applications folder and executed the app from there. Popped up in Finder immidiately. Who knew.

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tmpfs OP
Dec ’22

I have tried all of these suggestions and none of them work for me; including everything that Wizfinger tried.

It seems impossible to get this working for an existing application.

I have tried simultaneously changing the bundle identifier, container id and build number and deploying that to the app store then installing via testflight.

Nothing works, could really use some help here as it is critical for my app to be able to export files.

Any help much appreciated!

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KGraus OP
Jan ’24

Anyone sort this out? I'm in the same boat - I've tried everything above and while the files are in iCloud Drive, they are never shown in the Files app.

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ravi-swiftui OP
Jun ’24

It did work for me after i put one more directory after documents and increase build version

FileManager.default.url(forUbiquityContainerIdentifier: nil)?.appendingPathComponent("Documents").appendingPathComponent("CSVs")

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