How do I download From ICloud To My New IMac

Go to system settings > Apple account > iCloud and toggle on whatever services you wish to sync.

If you were synchronizing your old Mac with iCloud, you can synchronize your new Mac with iCloud in the same way. However, there may be things on your old Mac – aside from stuff that is synchronized with iCloud, or with an e-mail provider – that you will want to transfer. This is where Migration Assistant comes in.

The most reliable way to run Migration Assistant is against whatever kind of backup of your old Mac that you have on hand. That can be a Time Machine backup, or a bootable clone backup made with Carbon Copy Cloner or with SuperDuper! (Those are the three most popular local backup applications among Mac users.)

Transfer to a new Mac with Migration Assistant - Apple Support

All you need is the correct cable or adapter to connect the drive to your new Mac.

To download from iCloud, all you need to do is sign into your iCloud account on the new machine and turn on the options to sync your data. If you were using iCloud photo library, you need to turn that on. Ditto desktop and documents in the iCloud if you were using those.

Assuming you created a Time Machine backup from the old (and now non-working) iMac then you can still use the Time Machine External Hard Disk to do Migration Assistant. As far as getting your stuff off of iCloud it's as simple as logging into your iCloud account. You can do that by navigating to iCloud.com then login and your data is right there!

Please simply connect the old Macs Time Machine to the new Mac and run Migration Assistant. If you don’t know how let us know, if you do not have a Time Machine backup create one!!!!!! If you don’t follow the instructions you will have a HUGE mess to clean up.

MUTigerFan2 wrote:

I have Time Machine backups but the external drive for the old computer has USB ports while the new IMac will have Thunderbolt ports. This makes connection incompatible since the ports are different.

The Thunderbolt ports on the 24" M4 iMacs are USB ports – USB4 ports, with USB-C connectors, which support

• USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10 Gb/s)
• USB4 (up to 40 Gb/s)
• DisplayPort
• Thunderbolt

They adapt to whatever you plug into them. So if you plug in a USB 3 device, the Mac and the device speak USB 3, and the device does not need to be aware of USB4, or DisplayPort, or Thunderbolt.

You can plug USB-A devices into one of these ports with the help of an Apple USB-C to USB Adapter. If you have bus-powered drives with Micro USB 3.0 B sockets, you can get USB-C to Micro USB 3.0 B cables to substitute for the USB-A to Micro USB 3.0 B cables typically bundled with such drives.