What are they going to do to increase security? Get smarter users?
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That's not true. SMS relay will work with the iPad, too. In fact, I was using it in earlier betas.
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Apple Pushes iCloud Photo Library Back to Beta as SMS Continuity Delayed to October
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What are they going to do to increase security? Get smarter users?
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That's not true. SMS relay will work with the iPad, too. In fact, I was using it in earlier betas.
Apple Pushes iCloud Photo Library Back to Beta as SMS Continuity Delayed to O...
It's still there. Changed in Beta 4. You just have to activate Siri and say "Shazam". All they've done is changed it from doing it as soon as Siri is activated. Some people were complaining that they had music playing and Siri kept shazam-ing the music when it wasn't wanted.
Edit: hmm apologies, seems like they did pull it out of GM! Damn.
It's still there. Changed in Beta 4. You just have to activate Siri and say "Shazam". All they've done is changed it from doing it as soon as Siri is activated. Some people were complaining that they had music playing and Siri kept shazam-ing the music when it wasn't wanted.
Edit: hmm apologies, seems like they did pull it out of GM! Damn.
This is my guess. I wondered the whole time how they would make iCloud Photos work well without the companion app for Macs.
Would it just merge with Photostream in the meantime? If not, how would I view the photos outside of iOS? And on that note, how would old photos get uploaded, and would it affect syncing with iPhoto?
I'm very excited about the changes coming with iCloud Photos, but I'm surprised they announced that it was coming at all before the Mac solution was worked out. It just seems like you've got to have all the devices on the same page before this system is going to work well.
And speaking of working well, I really hope they have a robust way of making offline archives on the Mac, given that we've seen in the past that things can at times get lost in the cloud. It'd be great to have both, and have the Mac version of the library fully compatible with Time Machine backups.
You've gotta be pretty dumb to allow your naughty bits (and those of others) to be backed up in the cloud. It was only a matter of time before that story fappened.
ummm i know why
Still too hot on the heels of the celebrity leak. "all of your pictures, everywhere, forever " doesn't sound great right now to some of the public. frankly I am very much looking forward to the new photos app and iCloud photo library
Still too hot on the heels of the celebrity leak. "all of your pictures, everywhere, forever " doesn't sound great right now to some of the public. frankly I am very much looking forward to the new photos app and iCloud photo library
Since I was only going to use it with Yosemite it makes no difference to me if it's delayed until October. I'm guessing those who have iPads maybe a little miffed though.
It's too bad that most folks' network connections are still 12 orders of magnitude too slow for online photo albums to work well without massive downscaling. Here's hoping this beta pushes Apple to "pull a Google" and start buying up wireless bandwidth and dark fiber.
Are we sure this is how it works? I was under the impression before that all of my photos on iCloud would not take up space on my devices but they do anyway leaving me not to upload all of them because of my 16 GB iPad.
Do we know when iCloud Photo Library works it actually will not eat device storage? A poster above said even with it turned off on their beta it still took up a gig...
It does keep a copy of your photos for storage but, Your photos still take up storage on your device, all I cloud photo does is keeps them in sync basically. If you delete a photo on your phone it deletes it across the board (in the cloud too) on all device, if you take a photo on your iPad it will show up on your phone. The only way to limit the amount of storage your photos take up is by enabling a feature that "Optimizes for phone storage" or Keep and Download originals" the optimize keeps a low res. photo on your device but the original stays on the cloud freeing up space on your device. It reduced my wife's photo storage by 3GB on her devices enabling that feature.
I personally could careless about the storage amount on the device I am happy Apple finally has my photos truly in sync between all my devices.
I personally could careless about the storage amount on the device I am happy Apple finally has my photos truly in sync between all my devices.
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I'm a massive Apple fan boy and defend about everything they do, but not having brute force password protection in 2014 on anything let alone cloud service is beyond negligent. Let alone not having notifications for two step authorization.
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Thanks for the advice. I was unaware of those options. I will have to look them up. I was hoping the new service would allow them to all be accessed via the cloud so I could store tens of thousands of photos in the Photos app.
That maybe an option when Apple finally releases the new photos app for OS X next yr. very disappointed in the fact that all these releases are so spread out. The OS X photos app should be the very first thing Apple released, not the last.
Typical. They go for the click bait these days. That is all that matters
With iCloud Photo Library you can either have original pictures on the device or have optimised versions (smaller size). It gives you the choice in options.
Also, since iCloud Drive is now accessible on iCloud.com beta, I wouldn't be surprised if iCloud Photo Library will end up there too.
SMS Continuity has had some strange issues for me - some of the people I send SMS messages to, during the beta period, received messages that contained nothing but Webdings! Send the same message from the iPhone - goes through just fine.
Doesn't make any sense. Why? Why couldn't I just use iCloud Photo Library between my iPhone and iPad until Photos for Mac comes out?
They changed how it worked in beta 4 & 5, by having to say 'Siri, shazam', obviously to stop the accidental shazams , but now that just opens the app. Wonder why they've dropped it.