MobileMe
Apple's paid cloud suite promised effortless sync under the slogan 'Exchange for the rest of us', launched badly, and was replaced by free iCloud.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
Apple's subscription service for synchronising mail, contacts, calendars, photos and files across devices.
Apple's subscription service for synchronising mail, contacts, calendars, photos and files across devices. MobileMe evolved from .Mac and attempted to provide push synchronisation and web apps for consumers. Its troubled launch generated an unusual public apology and free extensions.
Existence timeline
Apple replaces .Mac with a wider synchronisation and web-app suite.
Outages and sync problems prompt apologies and subscription extensions.
Apple introduces a free successor integrated into its operating systems.
Existing users receive time and tools to migrate data.
The original web apps, iDisk and sync service stop operating.
Why it ended
Apple stopped accepting new subscribers after announcing iCloud, then closed MobileMe on 30 June 2012 and offered migration tools.
Last confirmed trace
Migrated mail and account identities, local iDisk files, boxed software and archived web apps preserve parts of the service.
What it left behind
MobileMe's failure directly shaped iCloud, which kept the synchronisation ambition while removing the standalone annual subscription and old branding.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.