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  1. H

    iCloud iCloud Photos has stopped syncing on Mac

    My Mac's Photo app has stopped detecting new photos my iPhone has synced to iCloud. It had been fine for a few years reliably downloading them and now has stopped. I scrolled back through a few months of previous photos and there were a few that hadn't downloaded for some reason (i.e. just a...
  2. Morac

    Messages lost its photo index

    Last night I was going through the Messages app on my iPhone, iPad and Macbook Air (M1) and found that even though iCloud syncing was enabled, there were several threads that showed up on some devices, but not others. I determined these were threads I had deleted, but somehow the delete didn’t...
  3. RhetTbull

    Importing Google Takeout archive into Photos.app

    I'm the author of the free open-source tool osxphotos which provides command line utilities for importing photos, exporting photos, batch edits, etc. As of version v0.67.0, the osxphotos import command now supports importing files and metadata from a Google Takeout archive into Photos along...
  4. im1k31

    iPhone iPhone storage and Photos

    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...
  5. RazorBackXX

    Resolved What is the App? found it in photos privacy & security.

    I found this app in my photos privacy & security app & ive googled & googled & I have no idea where it's from or what app its supposed to be called can anyone please tell me & how do I remove it? I added 2 photos for reference.
  6. M

    What computer should I get

    I’m helping my sister buy a new home computer. She loves photography and takes lots of high resolution photos of wildlife and nature as a hobby. She wants a good computer system that will last her another 6-7 years and that’s not slow. She’s currently getting that spinning beach ball on her 2015...
  7. angelofioren

    Downloading Originals iCloud Photo Library Stuck

    The other day I noticed my Mac Studio had stopped downloading my iCloud Photo Library (about 270GB) originals to the external SSD I have been using since I had my 27 inch iMac. I figured the issue was that it was because I recently started using Plex to share a few video files from it. I decided...
  8. RebeccaL

    Suggested photo searches disappeared

    After installing iOS 17 I’ve been having the following issue. On photos when you go to search it used to be populated with suggestions and places. Like the attached pic (online image not mine). Now I only get people. I tried a hard reset and setting it as a new phone.it fixes the issue...
  9. P

    Determine if Photos on mac is importing photo or image files

    A question about mac photos, I have plugged my iphone 15 in to import photos onto my macbook pro. but how do i know if it is a video or a photo that i will import? as i use the phone for recording footage for work, i dont want to import videos into the photos app, i use final cut pro to...
  10. E

    System Photo Library on External and unable to eject (new since moving to Sonoma)

    Not sure if this is a Sonoma issue or maybe more of a Photos Widget one... I have a 14" MacBook Pro that is connected to an OWC RAID4 as well as a 2TB external SSD. The photoslibrary has lived on the RAID for years and been fine with ejecting all externals when I take the MacBook to work...
  11. G

    An oddity with a shared album in Photo.App

    Hey all. I have/had a shared Album that I set up on my iPhone and shared with 1 person. It disappeared on my phone and toggling "Shared Albums" in Settings/iCloud etc doesn't reinstate it. It did show up on my MacBook Pro UNTIL I also turned off/on Shared Albums in Photo.app Settings. Now...
  12. E

    New Photos Randomly Not Saving iOS 17 on iPhone 15 Pro Max

    I'm not expecting any fixes from the forum, but putting this out in case others experience the issue. I took several photos yesterday throughout the day. At dinner, six photos in a row did not save. I noticed after the second attempt that it wasn't saving. I showed my wife and tried a few more...
  13. RazorBackXX

    how do I run this AppleScript in photos

    hey my friends, my iCloud Photos library is having serious issues downloading the originals from the iCloud Photo Library. I did two factory resets & signed in & out of iCloud. I have the m1 Mac & high speed internet over 100mb download & upload & I'm only downloading 1 item every hour. so I did...
  14. Jashue

    iPhone Photos app not indexing - search function broken

    I've perused the iOS 17 sub-forum and I took a long look here to find that no one else seems to be having this problem (kind of bummed to see that I'm the only one). I seem to have lost the ability to search my photo library. Used to be that typing "Cat" would bring up all the pictures taken of...
  15. TJGilbert21

    Sensitive Content Warning

    Neither myself nor my friends have been able to get iOS 17's new Sensitive Content Warning feature to do anything at all. All explicit photos continue to be unblurred even after activating the feature in Privacy Settings. Has anybody actually been able to get it to work? Thanks!
  16. E

    Image capture vs Photos app

    Folks - what does everybody use to import photos from your iPhone? I have one single computer in the house that I also have 2 HDD's back-ups for stored outside the house. I use this computer to back up everybody's photos in the family whenever I get time. I used to be a Windows user but recently...
  17. TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️

    Photo of the Day - September 2023

    Welcome to Photo of the Day 🍃 September 2023 (Fall Season) 🍂 First and foremost. Thank you for being here. Welcome! 🙏 I hope this thread finds you well and healthy. Say hello to warm days filled with sunshine and cool nights when open windows bring in fresh air for restful sleeping. New energy...
  18. S

    Will logging in to another iCloud account erase existing photos on new iPhone?

    Ok my situation is this, I’ve been using my iPhone 11 to take pics with a test iCloud account. If I now log into another iCloud account, will it erase the existing pics that are now in my phone? Or will it merge them?
  19. D

    Auto sync new iPhone photos to Mac Photos Library

    Until recently when I opened the Library in Photos on my Mac, new photos that I'd taken on my iPhone would appear there if my phone was connected to my home wifi. I seem to remember an iOS setting way back to do it, but I can't find it anymore. It's been working since I had my M1 Max MBP 16in...
  20. HailAlistair

    iCloud "This iPhone cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available." but more than 2TB are available

    This is weird and annoying: I'm getting "This iPhone cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available." when I have more than 2TB free in iCloud. See screenshots below. I have shot 280 GB of long videos recently, and they are also stuck with iCloud Photo Library saying...