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15.4 not uploading to photo stream HEIF photos
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iCloud started out as a magical service. It has become a shakedown.
Unfortunately, that doesn't get the photos to my other devices easily and without manual effort.
No argument from me, i loved photo stream. Google just did the same by canceling everyone who had free Google for Domains account services. Unfortunately, companies dont stand by their word anymore...
Yep, looks like Apple killed Photo Stream without even an acknowledgement. Pay up for iCloud or no photos between your devices.
If you can, please file a bug report with apple...maybe they'll fix it.
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You don’t. It happens automatically when you have my photo stream turned on and take a picture with your iPhone.
This is not a bug.If you can, please file a bug report with apple...maybe they'll fix it.
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There's the official "supported formats" and HEIF isn't there:
About iCloud Photos and My Photo Stream
iCloud Photos and My Photo Stream can help you get your photos on your Apple devices and on your PC. What’s the difference between them? Learn more about both features.
This is done on purpose.
Seems to be that Apple should have own categoty "bring back pulled features" in their Feedback form...
I'm quite ?
about this...Especially for Apple for hiding this new "UN-feature"...
That's what I thought. This guy has been so off with every comment in this thread.
Correct. Until 15.4 heif photos did move into the photo stream (probably as JPEGs). Guess that’s once way to increase iCloud subscribersThis is not a bug.
There's the official "supported formats" and HEIF isn't there:
About iCloud Photos and My Photo Stream
iCloud Photos and My Photo Stream can help you get your photos on your Apple devices and on your PC. What’s the difference between them? Learn more about both features.support.apple.com
This is done on purpose.
Seems to be that Apple should have own categoty "bring back pulled features" in their Feedback form...
Would this last Apple's "un-feature" be worth of a news article?
"The backwards technology" is funny here, you have to downgrade from HEIF to JPG, if you want to keep using the same service that used to work (ish) with HEIFs.
In short time I have noticed that Time Machine has been taken away from Apple Mail and invitations from Apple Mail does not automatically move to Apple Calendar in Monterey.
These just keeps coming...
"The backwards technology" is funny here, you have to downgrade from HEIF to JPG, if you want to keep using the same service that used to work (ish) with HEIFs.
In short time I have noticed that Time Machine has been taken away from Apple Mail and invitations from Apple Mail does not automatically move to Apple Calendar in Monterey.
These just keeps coming...
Actually I double checked. The HEIF photo was previously sent into the Photo Stream as a JPEG (I checked the photos in My Photo Stream that are still loading to this day because the images were taken before I installed iOS 15.4).
So while HEIF was never supported in the photo stream, it used to work by the iPhone sending HEIF photos as a JPEG just fine
So it is a bug...that wont ever be fixed.
IIRC, when HEIF was introduced, it was explaned, that if you had older devices (like I have old iphone, ipad AND mac) in your Photo Stream "group", the photo was converted to compatible format for those old devices.
I might also remember wrong and conversion could have been done, even without any need for it.
There might, of course, been a bug in that conversion and that might be the excuse to remove that feature now for good.
This seems to have been work in progress:
Is Apple's My Photo Stream dead? No, but its days are numbered
Apple hasnu2019t killed My Photo Stream, but itu2019s available to ever fewer iCloud users.
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Btw, I checked my Photo Stream from my mini2018 running Monterey and suddenly there are new photos from my iP11, which are HEIF. And a lot of older photos from my ipadAir4thG, which are also HEIF.
I'm not sure if these got there after I synced these devices in Finder yesterday.
The whole Photo Stream album has no chronoligal order now, maybe it's time for another rebuild of Photos archive...
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Is Apple's My Photo Stream dead? No, but its days are numbered
Apple hasnu2019t killed My Photo Stream, but itu2019s available to ever fewer iCloud users.
www.macworld.com
I just don't understand the new mentality; forcing users down the 'subscription' shoot is not an encouragement to join. And to alienate the user base after offering great basic functionality is just wrong.
apple use to give us the power to do it 'your way', not its 'their way or the hyway'
and for those who will say, just join, or is it really a big deal... maybe not the face of it, but in the big scheme of things It is.
apple use to give us the power to do it 'your way', not its 'their way or the hyway'
and for those who will say, just join, or is it really a big deal... maybe not the face of it, but in the big scheme of things It is.
I am also not a happy camper. . Have opened a bug report, the more reports the better. Let's hope Apple did not intentionally remove the auto convert from heif to jpg. I can see some point of not updating Photo Stream to deal with heif files, but no reason I can see to drop the auto conversion in the phone, as it was already there and working. Except of course to force us all to pay for iCloud storage........
I know there are some workarounds, but it was super convent to take heif files on my phone, and quickly see them on my iPad or my Mac mini. I still download (backup) the full res heif files, but only every month or so.......
. Have opened a bug report, the more reports the better. Let's hope Apple did not intentionally remove the auto convert from heif to jpg. I can see some point of not updating Photo Stream to deal with heif files, but no reason I can see to drop the auto conversion in the phone, as it was already there and working. Except of course to force us all to pay for iCloud storage........I know there are some workarounds, but it was super convent to take heif files on my phone, and quickly see them on my iPad or my Mac mini. I still download (backup) the full res heif files, but only every month or so.......
hmmm not fixed for me. if i take several photos (most compatible) my photo stream only moves 1 of the photos to my mac. Moreover, in different moments it’s not always the first or last photo?!?. seems so random as several weeks back it was working again , now random. very confusing.
I use the HEIF setting. After I updated my iPhone and iPad, new photos started to appear in the photo stream. It's strange that "most compatible" isn't working for you as setting camera to use "Most Compatible" was the fix to HEIF photos not going into Photo Stream.