Apple Pushes iCloud Photo Library Back to Beta as SMS Continuity Delayed to October

So is SMS relay working or not? I'm using Yosemite Beta 14A361c and iOS8 GM. It appears I get non iMessage SMSs to iMessage OK, but I'm unable to send/reply.
 
Another reason not to trust Apple cloud services, especially at launch. Seems to be a good way to completely delete all your photos with one bad hiccup on Apple's side. No way. Sticking with Picturelife or now.

I don't expect to see these feature until it launches next year in 2015 with the Yosemite Photos app. And since Apple pulled it, thinking we wouldn't notice, and offered no explanation and left us in the dark (again with another photo app), I don't expect to see this at all.
 
Razeus said:
Another reason not to trust Apple cloud services, especially at launch. Seems to be a good way to completely delete all your photos with one bad hiccup on Apple's side. No way. Sticking with Picturelife or now.
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I remember setting up iCloud for contacts for the first time. On the first sync, all my contacts showed up twice on every device. Next time I synced, the contacts were all gone. Probably user error but it wasn't clear at all how you're supposed to set it up and if you just connected the things and let it sync, it was all weird.

Glad I had the time machine to restore from because (obviously) syncing it back synced the deletion of all contacts to all the devices. :(

At least it seems to work now, still wish Notes would sync right away like everything else does. Those always seem to take forever to sync.
 
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Razeus said:
Another reason not to trust Apple cloud services, especially at launch. Seems to be a good way to completely delete all your photos with one bad hiccup on Apple's side. No way. Sticking with Picturelife or now.

I don't expect to see these feature until it launches next year in 2015 with the Yosemite Photos app. And since Apple pulled it, thinking we wouldn't notice, and offered no explanation and left us in the dark (again with another photo app), I don't expect to see this at all.
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Thing is, the article is wrong, as it's still available, it's just now tagged as beta. No loss of photos.

Also, anyone with any common sense would keep a local copy as a backup.

Additionally, you complain about one cloud service, but praise on another? Baffling. All cloud services are prone to the same issues. Picturelife could easily have a bad hiccup.
 
shandyman said:
Thing is, the article is wrong, as it's still available, it's just now tagged as beta. No loss of photos.

Also, anyone with any common sense would keep a local copy as a backup.

Additionally, you complain about one cloud service, but praise on another? Baffling. All cloud services are prone to the same issues. Picturelife could easily have a bad hiccup.
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Not true, it is not available in the public release, iCloud Photo Library is gone from iOS 8
 
I confirmed, there is no iCloud Photo Library Beta in iOS 8. It's gone and no word from Apple as usual. Mine says "My Photostream" so I'm assuming this is where my photos will go in the cloud, but not sure if it's still compatible with iPhoto on my Mac. I'll find out later when I get home I suppose.
 
Razeus said:
I confirmed, there is no iCloud Photo Library Beta in iOS 8. It's gone and no word from Apple as usual. Mine says "My Photostream" so I'm assuming this is where my photos will go in the cloud, but not sure if it's still compatible with iPhoto on my Mac. I'll find out later when I get home I suppose.
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Correct and it is a mess.
 
Weird, since the GM build and Public release builds have the same number, why GM still has it, whilst public doesn't. I wasn't the only one that said it was wrong, we had good reason to believe it was wrong, since GM = public release.
 
shandyman said:
Weird, since the GM build and Public release builds have the same number, why GM still has it, whilst public doesn't. I wasn't the only one that said it was wrong, we had good reason to believe it was wrong, since GM = public release.
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I believe non DEV devices do not have it enabled. Still very confusing.
 
I received iCloud Photo Library beta on both my iPad and my iPhone today but my wife's devices did not. I am running the Yosemite beta and expect that might the reason. I didn't have the iOS 8 beta.
 
cdci said:
I received iCloud Photo Library beta on both my iPad and my iPhone today but my wife's devices did not. I am running the Yosemite beta and expect that might the reason. I didn't have the iOS 8 beta.
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Can you sign in in iCloud preference pane with your wife's account and check if she will get the new setting in iOS?
 
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curtoise said:
Can you sign in in iCloud preference pane with your wife's account and check if she will get the new setting in iOS?
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I signed in as my wife and the Photo beta option disappeared. Signed back in as me and it was back.
 
cdci said:
I signed in as my wife and the Photo beta option disappeared. Signed back in as me and it was back.
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Thanks, my wife have that option too and she does not even have a mac, let alone Yosemite Beta, she only have her iPhone with iCloud Photo Library enabled.

I do not think this is the issue.
 
shandyman said:
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.
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Ok, it now seems Shazam is now working in Siri after all. Activate Siri, say Shazam, Siri them listens.
 
Ugh, this is an absolute mess. No clarity from Apple gives me huge pause too. With OneDrive's 30GB free storage, it's looking like offloading my photos is even more of a possibility now.
 
I plugged my iOS 8 iPhone into my MacBook running Yosemite, fired up iPhoto and imported all photos and videos into it. iPhoto asked me if I wanted to delete the imported files from my iPhone, to which I said yes.

Now the photos on my iOS 8 iphone and iOS 8 iPad are out of sync.

This is pretty confusing as there is no longer any differentiation between local storage (camera roll) and cloud storage (photo stream).

I just have 2 iDevices that display slightly different sets of photos on them. Maybe I'm missing something, and would love someone to explain my error if this is true.

Hoping everything gets straightened out once Apple enables / upgrades everything. Their timing with everything really didn't work out this time, heh.
 
What's funny is that since photo stream was introduced, there was an equal amount of people complaining about camera roll being unnecessary. So Apple cannot win really.

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R3k said:
I plugged my iOS 8 iPhone into my MacBook running Yosemite, fired up iPhoto and imported all photos and videos into it. iPhoto asked me if I wanted to delete the imported files from my iPhone, to which I said yes.



Now the photos on my iOS 8 iphone and iOS 8 iPad are out of sync.



This is pretty confusing as there is no longer any differentiation between local storage (camera roll) and cloud storage (photo stream).



I just have 2 iDevices that display slightly different sets of photos on them. Maybe I'm missing something, and would love someone to explain my error if this is true.



Hoping everything gets straightened out once Apple enables / upgrades everything. Their timing with everything really didn't work out this time, heh.
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Sounds like your error was deleting them from the iPhone after importing to iPhoto. Once the new photos app comes out for Yosemite, it'll be simpler.
 
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