Apple unveiled iCloud, the company’s new cloud service after MobileMe back in WWDC 2011. While this has caught the eyes of almost all the users of iOS 5 devices. Now that this has completely replaced MobileMe, Apple has decided to pull the plugs off iWork.com, a web based service that Apple has been providing for accessing your documents online.
Apple announced the closure of iWork.com on Friday that it would close the doors on July 31 this year. iWork was a free service that served to sync documents of Pages, Numbers and Keynote and debuted in 2009. Now that Apple is in the post-iCloud era, the iWork.com is pretty much of less interest for both Apple and its customers.
Apple learnt a lot from iWork.com to master iCloud. Here’s the official Statement from Apple on iWork:
After July 31, 2012, you can no longer publish new documents to iWork.com from any iWork application on your Mac or iOS device. Documents already shared on iWork.com will not be available to you or to those you shared documents with.
Moving forward, you can use iCloud to share documents between your computer and your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Learn more about or sign up for iCloud.
How to save your documents to a computer:
To save a copy of your documents shared on iWork.com, sign into www.iwork.com before July 31, 2012. Then, download all of your documents to your computer. You should do this as early as possible.
Here are steps to download your documents from iWork.com:
- Go to www.iwork.com from a web browser.
- Sign in with the Apple ID and password you previously used with your iWork.com account.
- In the Shared Documents page, you will see all of the documents you have shared using iWork.com. Click the download arrow associated with the documents you want to download and preserve.
- When the drop-down menu appears, select the format you want for your download by choosing from the available options: iWork ’09, Microsoft Office, or PDF.
If you have published any documents publicly, make sure you remove links to the documents and embedded Keynote presentations from your websites before July 31, 2012.
Thank you for being an iWork.com public beta user.
Source: Apple