iCloud is a great way to keep your e-mail, contacts, calendar, and tasks synced across your Apple devices. But what if you decide to switch from an iPhone to an Android phone? Or if you get a Mac for work? Apple doesn’t always play nice with other ecosystems, but you can access iCloud from your Android with the right apps.

E-mail

Every Android device comes with the Gmail app as well as an app called Email, and this is the app that we’ll be using to access your iCloud e-mail. You can also use an alternative e-mail app, if you so choose. If you’ve set up an IMAP or POP3 e-mail address before, this process will be familiar to you. If not, don’t worry—it’s quite easy.

1. Open the Email app and tap the menu button in the top-right corner. (If you’ve never used the Email app before, just open it and go to step #3.)
2. Tap Add Account.
3. Enter your iCloud e-mail address and password, then tap Next.
4. Select IMAP and tap Next.

5. When you see the Incoming Server Settings page, remove the “@icloud.com” from your username.
6. Change the IMAP server to “imap.mail.me.com.”
7. Set the security field to SSL/TLS (Accept all certificates).
8. Make sure the port is set to 993, then tap Next.

10. On the Outgoing Server Settings page, change the SMTP server to “smtp.mail.me.com.”
11. Change the security setting to STARTTLS and make sure the port is set to 587 and “Require sign-in” is checked.
12. Tap Next to complete the process.

Once you’ve gone through this list of steps and saved your changes, you’ll be able to access your iCloud mail via the Email app on your Android phone. Pretty simple!

If you have any difficulties with this, you can try changing the security type in the incoming or outgoing server settings. The combination of security settings that I mention above is the one that worked for me, but you might find that you need to use a different one.