Restoring the Icon

For iCloud Drive

Q. I was clicking around in an open folder window on my Mac and accidentally deleted the icon for the iCloud Drive on the side of the window. I use iCloud Drive a lot and found the icon useful, so how can I get it back?

A. If you have accidentally whacked iCloud Drive — or any other icon — out of the sidebar panel of a folder or Finder window on the Mac, you can restore it in a couple of steps. First, go to the Finder by clicking into the Mac’s desktop background, or by selecting the Finder icon on the Dock. Under the Finder menu in the top-left corner of the screen, choose Preferences.

When the Finder Preferences box opens, click the Sidebar tab. In the Favorites area, turn on the checkbox next to iCloud Drive. This preferences box lets you choose which icons you see in the side pane of an open folder window, so you can turn off the icons for things you may never use here. Click the red button in the top left corner of the Preferences box when you are finished.

If you like, you can also rearrange the order of the icons in the sidebar. Click on an icon and drag it to a new position on the list.