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I am working on a SwiftUI app which requires data access and management across a small group of my expected users (Peer groups at a similar institution for example) but I am not sure what would be the best approach. It seems like cloudKit could be an option but that seems like it is mostly for databases (Which is probably overkill for what I have in mind) and it also isn't clear to me how I could create a restricted publicly accessible space for my data (Although I haven't worked with cloudKit yet as I have only been learning app design over the last year or two). I was thinking perhaps that sharing a file across users via iCloud Files and having users select that file's data as a shared reference might work but this feels crude and likely unnecessarily "Reinventing the wheel". This data sharing seems like it should be a routine practice but I have not yet learned or read how to approach it best. I would really appreciate any advice or guidance to resources I could reference on this topic. Thanks!