Icloud Photos Mac
Ladonna Kassis
I have been using Dropbox automatic Camera Upload to backup photos that I take on my iPhone. I would also like to use Apple iCloud Photos to backup and syncronize my photos across multiple Apple devices. Once you take a photo with the iPhone the iCloud Photos functionality uploads the original photo and associated resolution to Apple iCloud. Once that upload of the original is complete, Apple stores a lower resolution version of the photo on the local iPhone in order to save space. I want to have the original (full resolution) version stored in Dropbox and not the lower resolution version.
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1. You take a picture with the iPhone
2. Apple IOS uploads the picture (in full resolution) to Apple iCloud and keeps a lower resolution version on the iPhone.
3. DropBox 'Camera Upload' uploads the picture (in ? resolution) to DropBox cloud.
What I am trying to determine is the sequence of steps 2 and 3. If 3 happens first then the high resolution version photo will be stored on both DropBox and subsequently on iCloud clouds. If step 2 happens first then the version that DropBox uploads would be the lower resolution version.
I was not aware that you could point Dropbox to backup files in iCloud. How would you do this? Also, I dont think this would work as the file format that iCloud uses to store the photo is a new highly compressed file format called HEIC which could be stored on DropBox but cannot be viewed on Dropbox.
Based on what you have told me it probably does not make sense to use the DropBox camera uploads feature then as it is dupicative of the iCloud Photos functionality. The DropBox camera uploads feature will be backing up the lower resolution version of the photos which is not ideal.
i want to get my photos and videos off icloud and into dropbox for safe keeping, I downloaded all of my photos etc (in a zip file) but I can not do anything with the file! i tried to cut and paste into my picture file on the computer - no luck windows cant open it. I've no idea how to get the file into dropbox,
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I upgraded my icloud storage because I didn't have enough storage for a backup of my iphone 7 for quite some time. The new backup was only going to be 3.5 gb because I didn't have icloud photos turned on. I upgraded to 50gb and thought oh good now I can turn on icloud photos. I get the message photos synced from itunes will be removed ...that is fine by me because they are on my macbook. When I click remove photos I get the message icloud photos could not be turned on try again later. OMG this is frustrating....is anything ever as simple as it should be with these things?
You do not have to have iCloud Photos enabled on all of your devices if you do not wish to see your photos from each of your devices across all of your devices. If iCloud Photos is enabled on your iPhone, after you restore your backup from your old iPhone to your new iPhone and sign into iCloud on the new iPhone, your photos will sync to your new iPhone.
If you do not turn on iCloud Photos, your Photos will be stored in your backup file and will transfer over to the new iPhone when you restore your backup file from the old iPhone to the new iPhone. This article will explain what each type of backup saves which you may find helpful:
If iCloud Photos is not enabled, then your photos will be saved in your iCloud or iTunes backup and will restore to your new iPhone when you restore that backup to your new iPhone. You may want to check and see if you have any restrictions set up if you cannot enabled iCloud Photos.
Thanks for the reply. I am still not able to enable iCloud photos or turn it on. If photo library is part of my backup, will my photos that were in that backup go on my new phone when I set up the new phone by restoring the phone from iCloud?
Hi, I'm on an iOS 14 Pro Max. We were so eager to try the iCloud Shared Photo Library, my wife and I. She is on an iPhone 14 Pro. All was fine when we were on the beta, but when we switched back to regular iOS 16 public release I noticed that our photos were no longer syncing. I tried to remove her from the photo library and start over after upgrading us both to iOS 16.1 Build 20B5056e, but now nothing works.
We have 41,160 photos & 4,354 videos all told. Right now, your beta is hung up somewhere on my iPhone 14 Pro Max on "Deleting Shared Library", and moving everything back from my shared library back to my personal library in order for me to go back to "normal." On her Pro, it's stuck on "Leaving Shared Library". In my personal library I can see 19,056 photos and 3,092 videos.
In my shared library at beta.icloud.com I can see 22,104 photos & 1262 videos. All of these totals of course add up to 41,160 photos and 4,354 videos as you can see. But it's stuck. It is stuck, and I don't know where...it will not transfer the remaining 22,104 photos and 1,262 videos back into my personal library in order for me to start fresh. I can still see them on beta.icloud.com, but my iPhone will not budge as far as moving them back, and neither will hers as far as leaving the shared library. Please tell me my photos are not lost nor unrecoverable.
I've tried suggestions such as those at -photo-library-risky.2359656/ posted by Fibrozyt, but to no avail. Nothing triggers the sync to resume, and so I have 22,104 photos and 1,262 videos that are stuck in some phantom zone "Shared Library" online now.
Please tell me a future iOS Beta solves this, because we cannot sync our photos. I've up-down-rebooted both iPhones, I've killed off the apps, I've turned off iCloud photos and turned it back on on both devices...I've looked for a way in beta.icloud.com to move them back to my personal library so that we could start again. Nothing is working. HELP please. These are precious memories of course, of my wife, our family, our wedding, our kids, our homes, our lives.
Hi.i do have exactly the same problem.I even reseted whole iphone and configured it from zero and still photo library cannot sync due to being stuck at deleting shared library.This happened when i shared that new library with iphone on ios 15 and then deleted it as it was not working.Now my photo sync is stuck on iphone and mac for few weeks.
same thing happened to me and my boyfriend. After the update, we tried and created a shared library but deleted it right after. Since then, I transferred 4,000+ photos to my hardrive then deleted everything on my phone because we were going on a trip. After doing so, I noticed that my icloud photos are not syncing anymore. When I go to icloud settings, it still shows that i have 4000+ photos and status is on: Leaving shared library. I initially tried to delete the photos on my pc on icloud but i was getting an error so i decided to erase them on my phone coz i thought it was just taking some time to sync. We have tried everything but nothing works!!!
I am having the same problem too. I just reported it. I got notified that my photos were last uploaded a few days ago. Is there anything I can do? I'm trying downloading to my Mac, turning off iCloud photos, and then deleting it. I'm curious if that'll work.
This is what shows at the bottom of my Photo Library on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook. I have also tried everything that has been mentioned in this group chat, and nothing has worked! Also, the Shared Library that this is trying to Sync from has been deleted from my phone and the creator of the shared library. So frustrating!!
From what I can tell, Jamf hasn't implemented the MDM payload to restrict iCloud photos in their Pro product yet, although it is listed as an available restriction in their Jamf Now documentation. There are two feature requests to add this functionality, which you could upvote:
The MDM payload for disabling photos is broken and has been for many major versions of the system(maybe as far back as 10.13). Despite endless feedback and enterprise tickets this has never been resolved.