icloud photos

Okay, I'm trying to figure out what to do. I'm a dad with a full Apple Family (my wife and 4 kids). I got my children iCloud accounts because I like the privacy of Apple Mail (no ads, and google not snooping on them from their youth). The problem is iCloud mail stops working when I each of...

Recently I have had some issues with storage on my device. To narrow down what may be causing the issue I removed 90% of my installed applications. Since this did not fix my issue I checked my storage listed against my storage shown in finder on my Mac. I was able to determine that my photos are...

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...

My sister has a 'My Photostream' with about 10,000 photos in it and she needs to put them into iCloud Photos before the deadline on July 26th. What is the easiest way to do this?

I know if I delete a photo on my iPhone it also deletes it from the cloud. When I get the new iPhone 14 pro and turn it on and tell it to go from a backup from the iCloud on my old phone does it also copy every single photo from the last iPhone to the new iPhone or does it just have them in the...

Hi all, I think my 2012 mini is on its last legs, (currently won't get past the boot screen), and I’m wondering how I'm going to transition from its 4tb ssd internal boot drive to the options available now from Apple. I use the mini as a photos backup point (amongst other things), with iCloud...

Objective :- Download a full backup (Full Resolution) of iCloud Photos to External HDD and All Photos with Optimised Storage on Local HDD Steps :- Open Photos Normally and Download all my photos in full resolution. Copy the Photos Library to External Drive. Remove the Photos library from...

I understand that on the iPhone and on the Mac there are photos and data from analytics (faces, memories, etc.) Is all this information also stored on the iCloud.com or only photos?

I was thinking about getting a new Apple TV 4K to replace my now unusable old one. I really liked the photo gallery screensaver on the old one, but in all of the documentation for the new TVOS, I couldn’t find a way to do the new, photo slideshow screensaver without using shared albums in iCloud...

I started using iCloud Photos (again) several months ago. I've been using Dropbox Camera Uploads for many years. Last week I decided to import several thousand old photos into iCloud Photos. The import went very quickly. (Last time I tried this it took several weeks and crashed the Photos app...

Checked "Optimize iPhone Storage"... ->>> How long are originals (when downloaded) kept on the iPhone? (Full-res Photos / Videos are downloaded when I click on them ...when is the cache cleared?)

I need some advice on how to accomplish something within iCloud Photos. I have been scanning in old family photos and sorting them into albums in my iCloud Library. When I’m done I want to transfer all the photos and albums to my mothers iCloud library. There are already thousands of photos and...

I am storing my Photos library on external USB drive. I plug this drive from time to time to my desktop mac so it can redownload all photos I've taken with my phone to the drive. I just like having a local copy as well. However I'm confused what does "Download Originals to this Mac" option in...

I want to share my experience, potentially to help others and hopefully to get advice myself. On my iMac I have a collection of about 25,000 photos and perhaps 100 short videos amounting to 175gb. They are organised into about 250 folders, a few of which have sub-folders. The folders are sorted...

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...

So the iCloud Drive function on Windows 10 has been improved. The offline support is great. Now it seems like iCloud Photos is broken on Windows 10 since Photos seem to be problematic. Each Time I add Photos to be downloaded it adds to the download queue. The download queue remains perpetually...

With the imminent full deprecation of Aperture in Catalina, I am finally looking to migrate off of Aperture. For my needs, even with the very limited editing controls in Photos.app, using Photos with iCloud Photos is the best compromise for me (compared to Lightroom, Capture One), especially...

I'm currently having an issue with my iPhone 8 plus not downloading data from iCloud. However, it still can upload data to iCloud. This happened right after upgrading to iOS 12. I noticed during the update, when it asked me to enter my iPhone passcode to access data stored on iCloud it got...

So I have over 2000 photos and video that I wanted to sync to iCloud. At the moment they are only synced to my MacBook but I also wanted to store them in iCloud. When I go to turn on the switch for iCloud photos on my phone it wants to delete everything synced from my MacBook. Anyway for me to...

I am having a lot of problems with my iCloud library when I edit photos or share photos ...it takes forever to download from the cloud (it keeps saying ‘Preparing...” and the circle (that indicates the download progress) barely moves. Also, when I use the ‘share sheet’ it takes forever for it to...