Download Photos From Icloud To Pc Fixed
Rachele Weishaar
iCloud Photos works seamlessly with the Photos app to keep your photos and videos securely stored in iCloud and up to date on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and on iCloud.com. If you take a photo on your iPhone, for example, you can see that same photo on your other devices and on iCloud.com, too.
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.
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.
After turning on iCloud Photos, turn on "Optimize Storage" in the Settings. Low resolution photos will AUTOMATICALLY be kept on your phone and the high-res files will AUTOMATICALLY be kept in the cloud. This will prevent your phone from running out of storage. Whenever you do something with the Apple Photos app and a higher-res file is needed, the high-res version will be downloaded AUTOMATICALLY. The only time you should delete a photo is if you never want to see it again. And 2TB of storage for all of those high-res files is $9.99 per month. 2TB is a lot of storage for iPhone photos.
Now, what if something crazy happens and Apple loses all of your photos? Very doubtful, but possible. Then you can protect yourself by signing-up for another service like Google Photos. Any photo you take can be set to also AUTOMATICALLY upload to their service. So, you can have your photos flowing automatically to 2 places, Apple and Google.
Another option for photo enthusiasts is Adobe. You can put Lightroom on your phone and set it up so all of the photos would flow into Adobe's cloud. Then if you have Lightroom Classic on your computer at home, you can set the high-res files to download there onto a drive of your choice. So, with Adobe, you can get BOTH cloud and local storage automatically by using Lightroom. I have the Photography Plan and 1TB of storage with Adobe for $20 per month. That gives you Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Lightroom mobile (iPhone and iPad), Photoshop, Premier Rush (for video), Portfolio and more. In fact, I am a commercial photographer and use Portfolio for my primary website:
Beyond simply storage, Apple, Google, and Adobe all have AI (Artificial Intelligence) features like facial and object recognition. Search for the word "dog" on any of those services and all of the photos you have taken with a dog will appear. And every month or so I get a slideshow with music from Apple made with photos from a special day or event. I don't tell it what to make, it just knows. For instance, it knows photos taken on December 25th are from Christmas and makes it for me, excluding photos with eyes closed, etc. Pretty amazing stuff.
Apple's iCloud Photos and the Photos app on Mac are a complete train wreck. I spent some time recently revisiting Photos on Mac and iPhone hoping to make sense of it all and it always comes up short. The biggest heart ache recently was discovering that Photos on Mac was corrupting all Apple Raw files upon import. Being a professional photographer I would suggest something like Adobe Lightroom as a permanent database solution to manage photos. Much safer than trusting anybody's cloud. I will use iPhoto for keeping a handful of selects on my phone for memories and use Photos on Mac to facilitate management of that.
Since we have some genius on back up. Ive recently ran into the issue of photos and files not showing in many of my message threads. Even in "shared with me" from the photos app, fail to show all of the little bit photos that still do show up in messages..... It wont let me download when tapping on them, photos sent and received in messages.... This occurs randomly in all threads except two.
So some thread will allow to me download from messages some of the time, but two threada wont even start the process. These two particular threads I the contacts have blocked me and deleted the thread(I had someone block me but not delete tge thread and it didnt change ability to download). Neither will any gifs load, only some emojis that I have sent show. Why would photos I sent at the very least be missing off my phone? As "privacy" oriented as apple is supposed to be, this really concerns me...... Now the one thing that have noticed is that furthest image(when viewing from settings -iphone storage-Messages-photos goes back to nov of 21, but its only a from one or two contacts. And not all photos from then to now from those contacts... Only thing which happened then was I add a series one apple watch to my account.
Last thing is I pulled up an iTunes backup from Jan on windows, using a backup extract app to see the data and it implies there was a full back up of all the photos on the device, but many show a blank photo icon with a file name.
Jefferson, this article isn't just bad, it's dangerous. You're advising people to disable backing up their entire device as a ham fisted way to temporarily try and suppress photo deletions from syncronizing to the cloud, in a bizarre attempt to force a photo synchronization service to be a photo backup service. People SHOULD NOT DISABLE ICLOUD BACKUPS. You can disable just iCloud Photos syncing all by itself, using the on/off button in your 2nd screenshot.
You can accomplish #2 by moving your photos to an off-device file storage location and then deleting them from your device (and iCloud photos). You can export to iCloud Drive, DropBox, Google Drive, One Drive - take your pick! Your article bizarrely implies that only iCloud would require an additional copy to a local physical drive, but that's a choice that would be identical among any of the cloud file storage services.
I have photos saved all over the place and my iCloud photos are probably the easiest to find. I find the search works pretty well even without everything being tagged. I do have the location turned on, so all my images are tagged that way and I do use it to find images. Like you mentioned, I have the low res copy on my phone and the high res backed up.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting the problem and am revealing my ignorance but... Assuming your friend uses a Mac and, more to the point, Time Machine, couldn't he just have called up the most recent Time Machine backup of his photo library, replaced the current version and, voila, his Costa Rica photos would be restored? I know not every iPhone user has this set up, but for those that do, it seems to me that Time Machine provides a safety net. Or am I missing something?
Frustratingly, this article is full of incorrect information. First of all, the setting for "iCloud Backup" controls a lot more than photo backup. Do not turn off iCloud Backup! That backs up essential information so that if/when you replace your iPhone, you can start pretty much where you left off. Do not turn off iCloud Backup! To stop syncing photos to iCloud at all (which I do NOT recommend), instead turn off the setting shown at the top of the 2nd screenshot ("iCloud Photos" on/off).
iCloud Photos is not a "backup service" (nor is dropbox) it's photo storage and syncing. It is not named or promoted as a backup service. If you want an additional copy (or archive) of your photos on a file storage cloud service, you can just export your photos to iCloud Drive (or DropBox etc. etc.).
The main difference between a photos or file cloud service, and a backup service, is that a backup service will keep a copy of deleted items around (forever, OR when a timer runs out, OR when the space is needed to fit within your plan's limits). DropBox is not a backup service either. Delete it from your sync'd devices and it's deleted everywhere, just like iCloud Photos (and every cloud file/photo service).
I've used OneDrive for years but at the moment it isn't playing nicely with MacOS. It's complicated my strategy for sure. Of course there was nearly a year where I accidentally messed up my export setting from Lightroom and ended up only saving low-res copies of ALL my photos for that year. So depressing but nothing to be done.
That\u2019s the worst thing he could do. Because once they\u2019re uploaded to iCloud, the next time it scans his phone for an automatic backup, it will notice that the Costa Rica pix are gone and in turn delete them from the cloud backup as well.
As Apple puts it: \u201CAutomatically upload and safely store all your photos and videos in iCloud so you can browse, search and share from any of your devices.\u201D Notice the word backup doesn\u2019t appear there anywhere?
Remember the old Apple ad asking us to \u201CThink Different?\u201D It\u2019s the same thing when it comes to backup. Apple just does it differently. In Apple\u2019s world, you don\u2019t delete images off the phone, you just convert them to low-resolution copies, and download the high-resolution originals from iCloud.
We\u2019re all taking more photos and videos than ever before, in higher resolution, and the fact is, we outgrow our phone\u2019s storage all the time. All of us needs to pay more attention to backup strategies. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Dropbox and SmugMug have different plans (they all charge) that don\u2019t involve deleting your cloud photos if you\u2019ve gotten rid of them from your phone.
There is no free storage available anywhere for more than a handful of photos and videos. And no, Facebook and Instagram don\u2019t count, as images are ground down to super low-resolution and you\u2019ll never get the full res version back.
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