All iPads Do photos use less space on the iPad than a mac?

[ozreth]

This is my first iPad. I've imported my entire Photos library from iCloud. It seems to have worked. My computer says 9,205 photos. My iPad says the same.

However, my iPhoto Library takes up 47gb on my Macbook Pro. I have done nothing else on my iPad yet and the storage reads 238gb remaining, down from 256.

What am I missing? Does quality drop when downloading from iCloud? Browsing some of these photos, many appear a grainy on the iPad compared to the Mac...

 

[haruhiko]

How do you “import” your photo library from iCloud? Isn’t that the photos are automatically downloaded to your iPad if you enabled iCloud Photo Library?

if yes, then did you choose optimise iPad storage or download and keep originals?

 

[symphony]

iPhoto? So you’re saying you transferred photos from a Mac to an iPad using a cable, or are you referring my to iCloud Photo Library?

If it’s the latter, you may have “Optimize Storage” which uses optimized photos to your iPad. If you zoom in on a photo or edit it or share it; it will download the original.

You can set “Download Originals” to get the original quality. No photos are downgraded. It’s the original file.

 

[ozreth]

iPhoto? So you’re saying you transferred photos from a Mac to an iPad using a cable, or are you referring my to iCloud Photo Library?

If it’s the latter, you may have “Optimize Storage” which uses optimized photos to your iPad. If you zoom in on a photo or edit it or share it; it will download the original.

You can set “Download Originals” to get the original quality. No photos are downgraded. It’s the original file.

Ah, sorry. I am referring to my iCloud Photo Library. I just signed into my apple ID on the iPad and the Photos app started importing and I let it do it's thing.

You're right, I just went into settings and the iPad has "Optimize iPad Storage" chosen.

So, if I click download and keep originals, will it automatically fix itself in the background or do I need to re-sync all the photos?

I always want all of my photos on both my MBP and my iPad to be the original copies and I don't want to have to download anything from the cloud when working with photos on the iPad.

 

[symphony]

Ah, sorry. I am referring to my iCloud Photo Library. I just signed into my apple ID on the iPad and the Photos app started importing and I let it do it's thing.

You're right, I just went into settings and the iPad has "Optimize iPad Storage" chosen.

So, if I click download and keep originals, will it automatically fix itself in the background or do I need to re-sync all the photos?

I always want all of my photos on both my MBP and my iPad to be the original copies and I don't want to have to download anything from the cloud when working with photos on the iPad.

That option sounds perfect for you then. And I believe it will download in the background. You can always toggle photos off and on in Settings. I suspect it needs to be plugged in all night to download in the background

 

[ozreth]

That option sounds perfect for you then. And I believe it will download in the background. You can always toggle photos off and on in Settings. I suspect it needs to be plugged in all night to download in the background

Great, thank you.

 

[rui no onna]

Keep it plugged in and on wi-fi. Even then background downloads may still take a while if you have thousands and thousands of photos.

 

[A_Flying_Panda]

By default on ios devices iCloud Photo Library uses ‘optimize storage’ mode as on Mac. It only stores caches of photo on your device locally. So you basically can have 4TB of photos on a 64GB iphone. Same works on mac user ‘optiize storage mode’

 

[AutomaticApple]

Keep it plugged in and on wi-fi. Even then background downloads may still take a while if you have thousands and thousands of photos.

Oh, and don't use cellular.