I take a picture with my iPhone and want to view it on my iMac in Photos. Unfortunately, photos has not sync'd yet so I can't view it. Is there a way to force photos on my iMac to sync? fwiw, the photos are on my phone and I logged into my iCloud account and the photos are there. I just need them to sync with my Mac. Very frustrating. At the bottom of the screen, it says "last sync'd yesterday". I've read a number of articles that talk about a "sync now" option and I just don't see that in either my phone or my Mac.
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How can I force my photo app on my iMac to sync with my phone.
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Probably it's not the Mac, it the phone hasn't uploaded to iCloud yet.
Photos app > touch the avatar in the top right, there you can see sync status & "Resume" if it's paused (which it sometimes will be, to save battery)
Photos app > touch the avatar in the top right, there you can see sync status & "Resume" if it's paused (which it sometimes will be, to save battery)
I did log into iCloud and the photos were there. Plus, the Mac said it hadn’t synced since yesterday.
I have found in the last few months iCloud to be buggy when syncing photos. The same goes for notes.
When I update them sometimes parts of the old notes show up even after I have deleted them in the cloud.
Something has changed because it never used to be like this.
Buggy indeed. Today my iMac Photos said it synced around 1:30am but the photos I took on my iPhone yesterday were not showing. Looked in iCloud and they were there. Looked on my iPad and they were there. But on my iMac, they were not. In fact, it looked to be a couple days behind. So, I’m not sure it’s iCloud that’s buggy yet I don’t know what could be going on in my iMac.