Comments on: The Definitive Guide to iCloud Photos (2020 update) https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/ Tools and Fixes for Mac, iPad, iPhone & iWatch Mon, 21 Feb 2022 14:56:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Deb https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1591020 Mon, 21 Feb 2022 14:56:32 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1591020 While on vacation I took a few hundred photos with my iPhone, and put them in a separate folder. Now they are gone, just gone from all devices. They were not deleted, and iCloud is not full. The only ones I have now are what I messaged to someone or shared on Facebook. Where did the photos go, and how do I get them back?

]]> By: John https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1589343 Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:53:01 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1589343 You admit that there are various problems, glitches, and ‘hard to understand but resolvable’ processes affecting Apple Photos programme, all to do with transference and storage in and from Apple iPhone and iCloud.
This may explain why my own photo collection has grown from a reasonable 2.5 thousand pictures, to an incredible 12.7 thousand. Most are copies, from which the programme has mysteriously produced portrait shots and reverse angle shots. All done without any input from me!
Ten years worth of holiday albums are now thoroughly jumbled, and afaik there is no safe program that will safely remove all the unwanted photos.
I gather that a big part of the problem is transferring pictures from one source to another, because a backup file is always made, and then (somehow!) added to the originals.
What I have done may be radical, but at least I feel more in control again.
I have disconnected from any form of ‘Cloud storage’, including Apple’s own version. I don’t have, or want a smart phone. I have only ever used a digital camera for taking photos and then transfer to the Mac, and then edit at my leisure.
It’s going to be a pain sorting through 12,000 photos and deleting copies etc. But the lesson I am learning is don’t trust anything you have no real control over – and that includes Cloud Storage!

]]> By: Niki White https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1588442 Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:41:17 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1588442 Can i pick and choose which images and videos back up to icloud?

]]> By: katherine https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1579450 Wed, 05 May 2021 17:10:15 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1579450 I have created a new system library in Photos on my iMac which I would like to take over as the system library on my iphone and ipad. However I cannot get it across despite it being clearly greyed out as the System Library and toggling the icloud photos button on and off on all devices Any advice please? My ipad and iphone are both showing the same library which I can’t see on my iMac and I want to delete this one. Thanks.

]]> By: Patti https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1565547 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 13:12:34 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1565547 My photos in icloud are the same optimized low res files as on my iphone. Isn’t the point of icloud supposed to be that the original file size is preserved so that it doesnt have to be stored full size on the iphone?

]]> By: Linda Raby https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1548146 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 17:22:25 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1548146 I got a new computer. The tech moved all programs & info to my new computer. Previously my old iCloud Download file only had the most current pictures because I have a Toshiba offsite storage that I organize my picture folders on. Now I have lots of pictures in my iCloud Download folder & can’t even sort by date or send to another folder to get rid of them. I’ve tried to send—nothing happens—just sits there. I don’t want to delete all them because there are some I want to keep. Please help me get organized again after I got my new computer! Thank you

]]> By: Diana https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1531674 Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:55:44 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1531674 Hi.
Finally I have organized all my photos in my mac library in albums, I also download the photos that were in the cloud as right now I have the icloud photos on in my phone. Now, can I delete all the photos from the I cloud, and upload the albums I created in my library into to the cloud?
Is it ok if after I do that I turn off the Icloud photos in my Iphone so the next photos I take with it I can upload them in to my mac, make the albums and then upload the albums in the cloud?
I hope it is no so confusing .
Thank you

]]> By: Shawn https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1530895 Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:17:38 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1530895 In reply to Isabell.

Hi Isabell! I stumbled on this website looking for an answer to the exact same question? Crazy, because it seems like it would be such a common request and an obvious feature/option for Apple to have included/considered. Wondering if you’ve found an answer or a workaround since posting this back in September? Thanks!

]]> By: Lawrence https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1528847 Sat, 02 Jan 2021 23:12:11 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1528847 I often give names to my photos in iCloud, then download them to my Mac in batches. This works but I have two minor problems…

First, I find it quite hard to select the name field under each photo in iCloud; I have to click around repeatedly just to get a blinking cursor in that field, and sometimes I accidentally click the photo itself, which causes it to open in the browser tab, which is not what I intended. Is there an easier way to select the name field under the photo?

The second issue is that, after I’ve gone to all the work of naming the photos in iCloud, the zip file created on my Mac (when I download a batch) doesn’t include those names — just generic filenames like “IMG_0084.JPG”.

Is there any way to download the photos with my custom filenames intact? Thanks.

]]> By: Mark https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1522374 Thu, 03 Dec 2020 21:26:37 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1522374 I just got a new iPhone 12 Pro with 128gb. On my old phone (iPhone 10x , I had 256GB of storage). I had optimize turned on and the space my 35000 photos took up was about 7GB on my iPhoneX. I used QuickStart to transfer everything over to my new phone. On my new phone, optimize is also checked but when I look in the Storage Space , it says my photos are using 59GB. Directly underneath the storage bar, it says Review Large Attachments, and under that it Says ICloud photos 9% like it it is uploading all the photos to iCloud. Once they have all been uploaded, will they suddenly optimize and drop to the 7GB I had on my iPhoneX? (I hope so). For the new phone at the moment, it says it is using 117.5GB of the total 128. In fact it got up to 123GB and then told me I was out of space. So I offloaded some apps and got it down to 117GB and it dropped that warning. On my old iPhone with everything loaded it was using about 68GB of the 256 available. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks!

]]> By: Ori https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1522283 Thu, 03 Dec 2020 08:19:08 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1522283 Hi, and thank you for a great guide.
One question remained unanswered – even after optimizing, Photos are taking a lot of storage on my iPhone (I have 70K pictures and videos). I want to be able to save all my photos safely, have an automatic upload to iCloud of new photos I take on my iPhone. To my understanding, if I delete photos from Photos app, it is deleted everywhere.
My question is how do I “empty” the Photos app, while saving the original pictures safely on my mac + iCloud folder?

]]> By: mic https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1506706 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:26:41 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1506706 Using Catalina
want to use Photos / iCloud
tick photos
Checking Library emerging
never ending process
what to do ??

]]> By: Allen Powers https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1502397 Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:34:55 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1502397 I am having trouble with my new MacBook Pro accessing my photo library through Final Cut Pro X…..it appears that there is some kind of conflict between FCP X and iCloud?…..when I download photos directly to my Photos, FCP seems to see them in the browser….but not if they’re in Photos through iCloud…..is there a way around cutting off iCloud to my MacBook and simply downloading all the originals in order to have FCP X access them in its browser?

]]> By: Isabell https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1500453 Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:15:36 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1500453 Hii!!
I want to enable iCloud to get more free space on my mac and my phone because both is getting at it’s limits. However, I don’t essentially want them to SYNC. I enjoy having my work photos on my mac and my private ones separately on my phone. Is there maybe a solution to this problem that I haven’t thought of yet?

]]> By: Ken Borrie https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1494832 Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:33:15 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1494832 When I try to turn on Album Sharing through Photos -> Preferences -> iCloud
I get “iCloud features for Photos are only available in the System Photo Library [Learn More]
I can locate my System Photo Library (which Photos is using) on Finder, but cannot change anything there

]]> By: Connie https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1493970 Thu, 20 Aug 2020 18:43:55 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1493970 I want to upload 1TB of vacation photos to iCloud Drive. I have the 2TB storage account. I want to keep them organized in folders. So, I cannot use Photos in iCloud, correct?
I have tried moving a folder from an external hard drive to iCloud Drive. It worked, but was very slow and it copied to my hard drive on my Windows 10 laptop, when I am signed into iCloud for Windows app.
That is OK because I can delete them from my hard drive after the copy to iCloud Drive.
Question – when signed into iCloud for Windows, I thought I read where it downloads automatically to the PC to keep things synced. I do not want iCloud for Windows downloading to my PC automatically.
If this is true, is the fastest way to upload from external hard drive to my PC is via iCloud.com, and not signing into iCloud for Windows at all?

]]> By: Kellie https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1493413 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 05:56:36 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1493413 If I restore my phone using an iCloud backup, will I lose access to my previous shared albums?

]]> By: steve https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1493405 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 04:42:21 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1493405 I take about 100 pics a day on my iPhone. would like to get them to my iMac or iCloud and then delete them from my phone. Can I do that without deleting them from my iMac or iCloud also?

]]> By: Barnaby https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1489509 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 23:39:10 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1489509 The only way to share a photo in its original resolution is via AirDrop, even a Shared Album will automatically reduce the resolution, which sucks.

]]> By: Colin https://appletoolbox.com/the-definitive-guide-to-icloud-photos-in-2019/#comment-1487465 Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:23:14 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=62541#comment-1487465 In reply to Shelley Foster.

Hi Shelley, I have exactly this question, did you get an answer ? I cannot find one anywhere.

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