What we need to do is find that icon and its associated link in the System Folder, then drag that to the Dock. However, you can’t simply drag that icon to the Dock to install it. We know that there’s a button that opens iCloud Drive - if you open a Finder window on a Mac, you’ll see a tiny gray cloud icon with the words iCloud Drive next to it. In this short article, I’ll show you how easy it is to add an iCloud Drive Button to the macOS Dock for one-click access to your content in the cloud.
On the iPhone and iPad, there’s a Files app that gives you one-tap access to iCloud Drive and any other local files or cloud services, but there’s no such app for Mac. Subscribing to a full 2TB of storage for my wife and me, we store everything out there - scanned documents, all of our photos, you name it.
I don’t know about you, but I use Apple’s iCloud Drive a lot.