I put a text document on iCloud. How do I see it?

Unfortunately, you can currently only see text edit documents in the cloud from text edit on a Mac.

Thanks. I had noticed the same deficit. Sadly, this lack limits the usefulness of TextEdit for me.

There are programs that can access rtf or plain text files on the iPad. But I have found no way for them to access iCloud.

Just about the time I think Apple has done well with the cloud, I find some deficit like this one. I am puzzled by the consistently poor engagement the company shows with this area.

Thanks, though, for your help.

Try this:

On a Mac running Mountain Lion:

1) Save a TextEdit.app document to iCloud.

2) Use Open from TextEdit's menu.

3) Drag the icon for the TextEdit document to the Pages icon in the dock. The item should open in Pages.

4) When done editing, save the document to iCloud as a Pages item. No other possibility that I can see.

5) You should now be able to see it on an iPad.

6) Open, make a change.

The changed document is a Pages item now, so you can't see it as TextEdit on iCloud with an iPad. It must be accessed through Pages.

It takes fewer steps to open the document on an iPad if the font used to create the document in TextEdit on the Mac is a font supported by Pages on iPad.

I would like TextEdit to be completely compatible, but it's not, so this is a workaround.

As always, when when the question is How do I do something that Apple's dumbing-down ("sandboxing") prevent me from doing in iCoud?, the answer is: Don't use iCloud, use Dropbox instead 🙂.

In this particular case, you can view .txt or .rtf documents in the Dropbox iOS app directly. If you want to edit a .txt plain text document, install an app such as PlainText on your iOS device, and then click the Share button in Dropbox to share it with PlainText