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Apple Pushes iCloud Photo Library Back to Beta as SMS Continuity Delayed to October
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Anyone not on Yosemite will be able to access iCloud Drive via iCloud.com
I thought it had already been said it wasn't all iCloud? Some of the celebs didn't even have an iPhone. Also they were gathered over a few years, rather than one big smash and grab. Mostly down to weak passwords/security questions.
iCloud Photo Library will launch with Photos for OS X (in early 2015)
SMS Continuity with debut alongside Yosemite (in October)
No push backs.
SMS Continuity with debut alongside Yosemite (in October)
No push backs.
Yes and no. I believe you can have the SMS with just two devices like iphone and iPad. So they might be waiting for the ipad launch. Releasing two many features together might cause server issues. Best to go slow.
As for iCloud Photo Library, yes they might be waiting for yosemite both for server and practical reasons. After all, most folks photos are on their computer. So getting all photos in the icloud will need that piece
SMS is working on both my iPad with GM, and my Mac running the latest beta. I think what they are referring to is the "continuity" function only; where you start typing an SMS on iPhone/iPad, and can continue it on say the Mac, or other iOS device. Phone calls are now also working between iPad/iPhone/Mac, they were not prior to the GM seeds, at least for me.
Totally off topic, but I'd forgotten that I installed the Butt to Butt extension on my browser at work. It's unexpectedly made this thread the funniest thing I've read all week. 
I just used iOS 8 final on my iPad to send an SMS message and it worked fine. SMS relay works, so I don't think the article is accurate.
Just to add...
Just confirming about the topic at hand, I WAS able to send text messages to other people with the iPad Mini through the phone yesterday, but I think they remotely disabled it. I thought it was interesting that there was no settings available in the GM re: SMS and phone call forwarding. I even got a phone call forwarded to my iPad this morning. I am also running Yosemite Beta 2. Continuity and the like sort of worked, but it wasn't reliably working.
A couple days ago I was able to send SMS on the Macbook Pro. I guess I can not do that now.
I never had iCloud Photo beta available, so I can not speak for that.
Funny thing is, Instant Hotspot still works, as of now.
Just confirming about the topic at hand, I WAS able to send text messages to other people with the iPad Mini through the phone yesterday, but I think they remotely disabled it. I thought it was interesting that there was no settings available in the GM re: SMS and phone call forwarding. I even got a phone call forwarded to my iPad this morning. I am also running Yosemite Beta 2. Continuity and the like sort of worked, but it wasn't reliably working.
A couple days ago I was able to send SMS on the Macbook Pro. I guess I can not do that now.
I never had iCloud Photo beta available, so I can not speak for that.
Funny thing is, Instant Hotspot still works, as of now.
SMS relay doesn't totally depend unp on Yosemite. It also works on an iPad and iPod touch from the main iPhone, so there must be a different reason
Does this work in reverse?
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Guess I need to go cancel all that extra iCloud storage I bought yesterday. Without iCloud Photos the 5GB is plenty for right now.
I agree 100%. They say SMS Continuity, which would infer that you can continue it on a Mac or other iOS device. Throughout this whole period with iOS 8, they called it SMS and Phone Relay, so I really believe they were talking about what you said. It wouldn't make sense to take away SMS relay if it works on an iPad and iPod touch too.
I think what he meant is that Pages and Numbers (apps) will no longer be able to load files from iCloud directly (unless you export them to your desktop from icloud.com first) nor to save them (unless you import them from your desktop to icloud.com afterward).
I have never had a problem with photo streams. Individual and shared have been flawless for us since the shared ones came out.
What kind of problem are you having?
If an intentional gag - well done.
If not intentional - perhaps not the wisest choice of phrase given recent events.
I was think the same way you are, but does the cloud storage of your photo library depend on how much iCloud Drive storage you purchase? Or does it not count against it at all. My main library is rather extensive at about 300gb. Right now my 16gb iPhone's storage is getting eaten up by the photo stream saving duplicate copies of every picture I take in my Camera Roll until I can download the camera roll or organize the photostream in iPhoto.
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Removed and replaced by 'Hey Siri'
They always said that would be early 2015.
Yup.
Lol paying with an iPad Air would look so awkward but hey why not throw that feature in?! I'll take it.
Since it saves me from buying a 6+, i'll take it.
Still There
I'm running the GM build on my 5S and iPad Mini and both have the option for iCloud Library. Yes it does say beta but the option is there and hasn't been removed from iOS 8.
Continuity working just fine for all my devices as well.
I'm running the GM build on my 5S and iPad Mini and both have the option for iCloud Library. Yes it does say beta but the option is there and hasn't been removed from iOS 8.
Continuity working just fine for all my devices as well.
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