Connecting to iCloud Drive in Mountain Duck

[tryonkus]

I use iCloud Drive with the native MacOS client on my MacBook and have a need to connect to a second iCloud Drive account. From what I've read online, iCloud doesn't support either WebDAV or FTP connections, and I don't see an iCloud option in Mountain Duck. I am able to connect to my second account using GoodSync, but that lacks Finder integration. Other file managers I've tried all rely on the OS to access iCloud files.

• Is there an iCloud Drive connection profile available?
• Is there another way to connect to iCloud Drive in Mountain Duck?

Thanks for any tips or solutions!

[mikecastrodemaria]

Hi,

Nope ! There is currently no iCloud Drive connection profile for Mountain Duck. Mountain Duck’s documented backends include FTP, SFTP, SMB, WebDAV, S3-compatible storage, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, SharePoint, Box, and a few others, but not iCloud Drive. Its “connection profiles” are just preconfigured settings for supported backends, not a magic adapter layer that adds an unsupported protocol.

So the practical answer to your second question is also no, not directly. Apple exposes iCloud Drive to end users through the native iCloud client on Apple devices and through iCloud.com in a browser, while Apple’s developer-facing iCloud access is via iCloud/CloudKit APIs for app integration, not a generic WebDAV or FTP endpoint that Mountain Duck could mount.

The least-annoying workarounds are these. If browser access is acceptable, use the second account on iCloud.com. If you specifically need Finder-style integration for a second Apple account on the same Mac, the closest native route is a separate macOS user account signed into that second Apple Account, then switch with Fast User Switching. Apple documents separate Mac user accounts and fast user switching, and Apple Account sign-in is handled per user environment, so that’s the clean native workaround, even if it’s not as elegant as a second Mountain Duck mount.

So, blunt version: Mountain Duck is not missing a hidden iCloud profile, it simply does not support iCloud Drive as a backend today. Your real options are browser access, account switching, or a separate macOS user session. GoodSync is likely solving this with its own integration path, but Mountain Duck has nothing comparable documented right now.