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I am a dedicated user of iCloud photo library. This past year, since shared library was launched, I have gone back through my library to clean everything up and share it with my family. This has included adding location info and updating date/time data for photos from other sources. I am now...

Anyone use iCloud Shared Photo library and shared Google photo library at the same time? My wife, my two children and I are all members of the same ~700 GB iCloud Photo Library . I currently do not have any of us on google photos but am interested in turning it on for all of us. If i turn back...

This is weird and annoying: I'm getting "This iPhone cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available." when I have more than 2TB free in iCloud. See screenshots below. I have shot 280 GB of long videos recently, and they are also stuck with iCloud Photo Library saying...

Hi all! I've got about 30k photos stored in iCloud which I usually access from my phone or iCloud.com. I happened to open the Mac photos app a couple of weeks ago and have noticed that my disk is now using about 250gb. I don't use the Apple photos app on my Mac as I tend to download them from...

Update: June 16 2023 - This configuration continues to work well. Currently running macOS 13.4 (Ventura) for a Photo Library that ~1.5TB space used with ~151,000 Photos and ~5500 videos. Risk: Not having a COMPLETE backup of all full original resolution photos and videos that the Photos...

Update: You can find the final strategy I have settled on further down in the thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/backup-strategy-optimized-icloud-photo-library-on-mac-and-full-one-on-external-ssd.2351777/post-31738760 Hey guys, I am considering to switch to iCloud Photo Library...

19,1 iMac, Monterey 12.2.1 to 17,1 iMac w Mojave 10.14.6: I only have one Apple iCloud account. I have set up sharing on both devices, so I see the Monterey Photo Library when using the Mojave device. Why won’t Mojave Photo app use the Monterey Photo Library if sharing is turned on between both...

Hi all, Does anyone know if there is an extension for Apple Photos which will provide video stabilization? I can use FCPX and/or iMovie to do this, but it would be quicker for quick edits to do it in-Photos-app rather than exporting/editing/rendering/importing. Cheers

Years ago I used iPhoto for my images and really liked it. Then Apple ditched it in favour of the Photos app. I hated it and so moved away from it opting to use my Synology NAS to store all my images. It has software called Moments that works a bit like Photos and allows me to use my NAS as a...

I see that it is possible to export images from the Apple Photos app as 16-bit TIFF files. But my understanding is that photos taken with Apple devices (iPhones/iPads) are not taken/stored with 16-bit color depth. So what is the point of having the option to export as 16-bit TIFF files? As a...

Hi there, So I been using the apple photos app for a very long time. I have allot of good memories. And is starting to organisne my photos a little. I would like to archive all the photos of my ex girlfriends in a way where they are moved out of daily sight... but not totally forgotten...

I was a mac user for many years and built up a reasonably large photo library over the years. When apature was retired I dicided to build my own PC and moved to lightroom on windows. The problem is that my whole family have iPhones and most of our photos are taken using them these days (my nikon...

Curious if anyone has opted to use iCloud Drive instead of Apple Photos Library to store their photos and videos (especially old archives). Apple Photos is a great way to to sync recent media across all my devices. I archive my media library to an external hard drive every year, so I only have...

I don’t know about everyone else, but while the stock filters in Apple Photos aren’t the worst in the world, they’re definitely not the best, and there’s no reason why Apple shouldn't have the best. I used the Photos plugin aspect of the Filmborn app for a while. I was able to easily edit...

I was wondering what the best way would be to go about that transfer. I used a Samsung Galaxy S8 for about 2.5 years so all the photos from that time are stored on Google Photos. Of course, I can access them via the Google Photos app and website, but it would be great if I could just keep them...

Please forgive me for the long post! I've had all of this kicking around in my head and had to get it all out and also wanted to get some expert takes. :cool: I'm curious about other's workflow when importing from iPhone to Mac. iCloud Photo Library is really sweet, but I need more than 2TB...

I have close to 200k photos and videos that I would like to be able to easily access anytime, as opposed to keeping them all on an external drive where I have them, but never look at them. I also like the idea of having a backup, should anything ever happen to my local drive. So far, the...

I used MacPaw’s Gemini 2 software to remove about 10k duplicate photos and videos from my Apple Photos library. All originals are in the cloud, but I enabled the setting to store all originals locally as well. So, I downloaded all originals, ran the duplicate scan, deleted about 10k files, then...

Is it possible to connect my external hard drive to my iPad or iPhone to directly transfer media into Apple Photos? If so, will it detect duplicates?

Does Apple Photos do a pretty effective job of weeding out genuinely duplicate photos and videos? I’m trying to consolidate my entire media library into iCloud and I have a few hard drives with duplicate photos. I guess I just don’t want to delete any photos that aren’t duplicates, or add any...