iCloud restore doesn't restore all your photos at once. The Photos app on your iPad will download the backed up photos one by one. You just give it more patience, after a few hours all your photos will be back.
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Apple Adds Uploading Capabilities to iCloud Photos on iCloud.com Beta Site
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iCloud restore doesn't restore all your photos at once. The Photos app on your iPad will download the backed up photos one by one. You just give it more patience, after a few hours all your photos will be back.
They have no problem promoting it all over the site:
https://www.apple.com/icloud/photos/
https://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/photos/
Just saying "..., in beta," doesn't take away from the fact they are promoting it heavily as a feature of Continuity. I'm sure it will be great when Photos.app comes to the Mac, but without it the feature is a non-starter for Mac users since virtually all of us have our photos libraries on our Macs....and thus, walled off from iCloud Photo Library.
I do understand that. I gave it over an hour to download. I saw the pics appearing one by one and knew it would take some time. I had previously restored my Mom's ipad from icloud so I was familiar with it. I still have not deleted the ipad 4 yet and I am holding it side by side with the air at this moment and it has the 200 odd pictures on it and the ipad air has the 641. It never put them back on after I turned on the icloud photo library(beta). I since have turned back off.
Time to delete the ipad 4 now.
Cloud computing will be the downfall of mankind.
The only reason life exists today is because life is NOT centralized.
A BAD IDEA... Doomed to bring us all down..
The only reason life exists today is because life is NOT centralized.
A BAD IDEA... Doomed to bring us all down..
Your impatience does not mean there is an issue with iCloud Photos. Its not an instant download of hundreds of photos :roll eyes: Syncing hundreds of photos is not something that is supposed to be a daily or regular thing.
Let's check out your first reference, smart guy- "And iCloud Photo Library, in beta, stores every photo and video you take"
How about the second one- "Thats where the Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, in beta, come in".
You'd have to be pretty dense to miss the fact that Apple isn't saying this is ready for prime time.
they're slowly rolling out but if your want to be in front of the line go to this link https://preview.onedrive.com
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first pricing $7/month you'll get office 365 + 1TB storage and they'll increase it to unlimited (or click on the link above to get unlimited
)2 there are software for mac/windows/linux iOS Android WP
3 you can upload any kind of files there
4 organize your files/folders same way as on your computer
cool thing is i synced my phone photos/videos there and i deleted them from my phone to free up space. i can view over 200GB of my photos collection anytime thru the app on any device i want
first pricing $7/month you'll get office 365 + 1TB storage and they'll increase it to unlimited (or click on the link above to get unlimited
2 there are software for mac/windows/linux iOS Android WP
3 you can upload any kind of files there
4 organize your files/folders same way as on your computer
cool thing is i synced my phone photos/videos there and i deleted them from my phone to free up space. i can view over 200GB of my photos collection anytime thru the app on any device i want
Once you view the full res through the app it caches it. Watch the OneDrive app size balloon up with use. Maybe they're fixed that or set some cache limit with the most recent app update but there wasn't previously.
Be aware of the MS TOS and Privacy Policy.
Oh for goodness sake. You do realise that most people on the planet don't give a toss about this ?
Dropbox sells your data?
They just track you around the web and use single pixel's to serve you up ads.
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Just because you don't care doesn't mean Google is cheaper. Just be aware you get a cheaper monetary price because the rest of the cost is made up with your data, tracking cookies, sharing that data with 3rd parties, and perhaps sharing your info with governments.
Third parties and governments already know plenty about you and I. So what ? You are born, you change name, you get married, you die, you fill in a census form or are on the voters roll and they know plenty about you - all these things have to be registered. If you have a problem with them knowing that, you would probably be better going and living in a cave.
What porn sites you type into google, or what photos from your summer holidays you save to google drive, isn't going to add anything particularly valuable to "what they know about you".
Honestly, most people in the world don't care about this sort of nonsense.
So a marriage license equals being up to look up all the photos Ive taken recently, web searches, and files Ive saved?
Some people prefer not to have to their entire digital lives readily accessible to the government.
Not exactly free when its an add on feature for Prime. Also with people uploading massive amount of photos to Prime, it's a great way to hook people to continue to pay for subscription.
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[Dropbox] just track you around the web and use single pixel's to serve you up ads.
TINFOIL HAT ALERT!
But seriously tho have you got anything to back up that statement?
Burned
iCloud needs to be overhauled before I can trust it enough to put my photographs on it.
I'm currently waiting for a high priority call back from Apple to "see if we can get those documents back for you"
Those documents happen to be 6 years worth of accounting documents, spreadsheets and PDFs, templates and loads of stuff critical to my business.
The files I backed up appear to have been corrupted by iCloud so won't open.
Right now I wouldn't leave *anything* on iCloud drive.
I'm not the only one here - there are a number of threads which seem to rally the same cry : "What's going on with iCloud" (WTF?)
iCloud needs to be overhauled before I can trust it enough to put my photographs on it.
I'm currently waiting for a high priority call back from Apple to "see if we can get those documents back for you"
Those documents happen to be 6 years worth of accounting documents, spreadsheets and PDFs, templates and loads of stuff critical to my business.
The files I backed up appear to have been corrupted by iCloud so won't open.
Right now I wouldn't leave *anything* on iCloud drive.
I'm not the only one here - there are a number of threads which seem to rally the same cry : "What's going on with iCloud" (WTF?)
I'm intrigued to see how this will work when it leaves Beta, with the Photos app on OS X.
Currently iPhoto stores all my photos that are organised, and the latest event is synced to my phone through iTunes. My phone naturally has my camera roll. I like the idea of being able to get at all my photos from anywhere, without using up space on my phone.
Will we be forced to start using the Pictures folder if we don't want our photos in the cloud?
Currently iPhoto stores all my photos that are organised, and the latest event is synced to my phone through iTunes. My phone naturally has my camera roll. I like the idea of being able to get at all my photos from anywhere, without using up space on my phone.
Will we be forced to start using the Pictures folder if we don't want our photos in the cloud?
Apple do seem to be slowly reworking iCloud. So slowly no one has noticed.
Rather than a huge MobileMe > iCloud type of transition they're taking things one at a time. Presumably, they've learned it's a better way to roll out cloud services.
iWork was rewritten so it would work well with iCloud.
Documents in the cloud has been replaced with iCloud Drive.
Photo Stream is being replaced with iCloud Photos.
What's next? iTunes Match presumably.
I agree, but its not like they're inexperienced in this, so the pace shouldn't be too slow. They've had iTools (the mobile me predecessor) 12 years ago.
Currently don't use iCloud for photo backup, but if Apple were to offer a more lucrative plan, I may consider switching over.