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How to update pCloud Drive on your Mac
pCloud Drive's developer publishes each version through a version feed at api.pcloud.com, and the app can also update itself. Below is how to run that update yourself, then what Floodtide does about it, alongside every other app on the Mac.
Update pCloud Drive by hand
- Let pCloud Drive update itself. Open pCloud Drive. It checks for new versions on its own, and if it has not offered one yet, look in the pCloud Drive menu, or under Help or its preferences, for Check for Updates, then let it download and relaunch.
- Download the current build from the developer. pCloud Drive's developer publishes each release on their own site. Get the Mac build from there.
- Replace the old copy. Quit pCloud Drive, open the download and put the new pCloud Drive in Applications in place of the old one: a disk image is dragged across, an installer package runs its own steps. Your settings and documents live outside the app and are kept.
That is one app. The same walk, through a different menu or page each time, is what every other app on the Mac asks of you, which is where Floodtide comes in.
What Floodtide does about pCloud Drive
Floodtide's own signed catalog lists where pCloud Drive's developer publishes each release, and Floodtide reads that source directly to learn which version is current. When yours is behind, the row appears under Updates with the version that is out, next to every other app on the Mac that is behind.
The developer publishes the version but no download Floodtide can check, so Floodtide does not install this one itself. The update comes from pCloud Drive's own updater, or from the developer's site, and Floodtide is what tells you the day it is due.
What Floodtide knows about pCloud Drive
- Floodtide reads
- a version feed the developer publishes at api.pcloud.com
- Bundle ID
- com.pcloud.pcloud.macos
- Needs
- macOS 12.0 or later
- Installed by Floodtide
- No. Floodtide shows the new version the day it is out; installing it is your call, from the developer.
- Updates itself
- Yes, when you open it. Floodtide covers it anyway, so the Mac is checked whether or not you do.
Read from the source on 18 October 2026. The app reads it live.
Questions about pCloud Drive
Does Floodtide update pCloud Drive?
Floodtide tells you when pCloud Drive has an update. pCloud Drive is in Floodtide's signed catalog, which reads the version its developer publishes, so a new release appears in your update list with no configuration. The developer publishes no download Floodtide can check, so the update itself comes from pCloud Drive's own updater or the developer's site.
How does Floodtide install a new version of pCloud Drive?
It does not install this one itself. It shows you the new version as soon as pCloud Drive's developer publishes it, and you update from pCloud Drive's own updater or the developer's site.
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