icloud photo library

I recently turned off "iCloud Photo Library" to save some space on my iCloud account. I didn't realize it at the time but my wife really liked the ability to browse all of her photos on her iPhone. So I upped our storage and and clicked iCloud sharing back on....but I still get the "XX days...

Is there a proper sequence to setting up iCloud Photo Library on my Mac, iPhone and iPad? That is, do I start with the Mac by enabling the photo library in Photos and then once the photos are uploaded in the iCloud, go to the other devices and enable the photo library. Is there any other info...

Hi, I recently read somewhere that the Photos app on Apple TV does not support displaying user created folders within folders (as created for example in the Photos app on Mac). Is this still the case with the latest software version on Apple TV (and if so, isn't that a very weird inconsistency...

I have a Photos.app photo library on my Mac which is about 178GB. I had this successfully synced with iCloud until a couple of months back when it stopped syncing properly. To fix this, I tried disabling iCloud Photo Library (on all my devices), but rather than delete all the photos from my...

I have used iCloud Photo Library since it was available. Because I have a huge photo library (~100GB), I have always used the "Optimize iPhone Storage" option on my phone. In previous versions of iOS, this meant that typically older pictures would be removed, leaving only the thumbnails, while...

Hello, I use iCloud Photo Sharing for all my photos that I take with my iPhone or iPad. However I also own a DSLR that I use and I am looking for another app/service to use for my DSLR pictures. I really like Aperture, but as I use both a home computer and a laptop - cloud sharing is rather...

My iCloud Photo Library on my iPhone 8 Plus completely removed itself and then updated itself. It was as if I signed out of iCloud and signed back in, even though I did not. It's gone back to normal, but it there any reason this would have happened? Is this a strange iOS bug?No photos were lost...

My friends and I use iCloud photo sharing a lot and have hit the 100 album limit. Is there a way to overcome this limit, like by paying for and using the Photo Streaming to share instead? Or do I need to look into using a different service...maybe Google Photos?

I have an iPhone 7 Plus running the latest version of iOS11. I recently started using iCloud Photo Library shortly before updating to iOS 11. Everything seemed to be fine however I've noticed the camera roll album in the Photos app is no longer there and when I open the camera app and open the...

Say I take a photo on my iPhone 7 in high efficiency format, and then it uploads to iCloud Photo Library… will I be able to view it on my other devices that don't support iOS 11/macOS High Sierra? I'm assuming it'll generate a JPEG preview, but I won't actually be able to view the original file?

Hello! Today I set up my new Apple TV 4K and connected it to my iCloud Photo Library. My Videos from the last two years are in 4K and Apple says, the iCloud support 4K. So when I run any Video in the Photos App on the new Apple TV 4K, the Videos are only played in HD. The Info also shows up HD...

So I just updated to iOS 11 and the main issue I am having is that I have no photos showing up in the Photos app. It's just a white screen with "Updating" in the middle. I am using iCloud Photo Library. There are the tabs at the bottom but there isn't any photos anywhere. Since it just says...

Hi all, I recently noticed that Photos (the macOS app) had been stuck on 'Uploading 499 Items' for a few days. Following advice I found on various forums, I unchecked and rechecked the 'iCloud Photos Library' box in Photos preferences. I thought it would resume uploading the same 499 items, but...

I'm looking to switch over and transfer over 150gb of pics and videos from iCloud Photo Library to Google Photos. I know I can automate it using the Google Photos app, but I was just wondering if there's any complications since I am using iCloud photo library, or since they're all synced across...

After multiple support calls, I had to erase my iPhone two days ago and set it up as a new phone to fix system glitches that could not be fixed any other way. All of my photos were stored on my MacBook Pro. So I turned on iCloud photo library on the Pro and waited a day for my 18GB of photos...

I turned "ON" my iCloud Photo Library on my iPhone and my Mac, also I turned "ON" the optimize option in both devices, and all my photos are uploaded perfectly to iCloud Photo Library but it seems that it also keeps the original copy in my devices I don't know why because I want to free up my...

I am using iCloud photo library and have chosen to download originals to my MacBook Pro because I want to have local copies of all my photos. My SSD is almost full and I will most likely have to switch to optimising mac storage and storing originals only in iCloud. I would like to be able to...

Hello, I currently have an old Macbook Pro with a big hard disk so my whole iCloud Photo Library is downloaded and therefore gets backed up via time machine. I want to replace this old laptop with a new version that has a small SSD that won't be big enough to hold the entire library, so iCloud...

Sorry if this has been answered, I searched but couldn't find any discussion. Does anyone know if turning on iCloud Photo Library on the Apple TV causes it to download your entire library to the device? My data use the day after getting it jumped 8GB in one day, and I haven't watched anything...

Hi all, Is there any way to have my family's photos all uploaded into one location without having to manually add our photos to the family album each time we take photos? We use family sharing with separate iCloud accounts right now. When we try sharing an iCloud account we come across some...