iPhone photos not syncing with my MBP

[anjanesh]

I took some photos with my new iPhone 12 Pro Max but I don't see it on my iCloud Drive on my macOS Mojave MBP.
Do we need to explicitly sync them using an app or service etc ? I thought it would automatically get downloaded to my mac.

 

[circatee]

And to confirm, in iCloud online, you see said items?
Also, the MBP is not maxing out on storage, is it?

A few days after I received my iPhone 12 Pro Max, and started taking photos, it seemed to take a while to show on my MBA. Alas, I did not do anything to 'fix it' per se'.

 

[Quackers]

Try plugging the iphone in to the power for a minute.

 

[anjanesh]

All the photos are there at https://www.icloud.com/photos/
But where's the folder on my MBP ?
There is a folder called Photos on my iCloud Drive on my MBP but I had created that Photos folder manually when I bought the laptop and not the iPhone. Was that the problem ?
If not, where is the iPhone's Photos folder on my MBP ?

 

[Brian33]

Photos are a special case; they don't show up in Finder's iCloud drive section. The photos sync with the 'Photos.app' application (which is in /Applications). You're supposed to open Photos on your Mac to view, edit, or export your pictures. The actual image files are stored (along with other stuff) in a special "Photos Library" within Pictures (in your Home folder). But again, the intention is that you access them via the Photos app, not via Finder in the file system.

 

[anjanesh]

Ah...I see - thank you for clarifying this. I was thinking for some reason my photos were not getting synced to my MBP. I can see that my ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary is 551 MB so its there. Thanks.