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How do I activate iCloud Photo Library?
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Hi guys how could i import my full library to iCloud photo library?? I was trying to put all photos on the iphone and then see if them were uploaded but when i connect my iphone to itunes and go to photo section, it says that " iphone can access to iCloud photo library and images can be downloaded through wifi ..." so there is not the option to import photos from your computer as before. I can't understand! in this way we cannot import photos into our devices!! Am i wrong? 
Hi guys how could i import my full library to iCloud photo library?? I was trying to put all photos on the iphone and then see if them were uploaded but when i connect my iphone to itunes and go to photo section, it says that " iphone can access to iCloud photo library and images can be downloaded through wifi ..." so there is not the option to import photos from your computer as before. I can't understand! in this way we cannot import photos into our devices!! Am i wrong?
This will be possible in Yosemite or the iCloud Drive windows app when they are available I think.
This all doesn't surprise me in the least. Photos does not seem ready for prime time.
What I wonder is, does Apple really expect us to put our entire library in the cloud? Mine is OVER a terabyte. Even if iCloud offered that much storage, it would spend so long uploading and many people have monthly transfer caps much lower than that!
I hope you can still transfer photos directly over USB or local wifi, or this is going to be a big problem for people with huge photo collections.
What I wonder is, does Apple really expect us to put our entire library in the cloud? Mine is OVER a terabyte. Even if iCloud offered that much storage, it would spend so long uploading and many people have monthly transfer caps much lower than that!
I hope you can still transfer photos directly over USB or local wifi, or this is going to be a big problem for people with huge photo collections.
Here's the text from the Apple announcement; emphasis mine.
And, yes, all references has been pulled from the iOS/iCloud informational webpages. My gut feeling tells me Apple realized iPhoto Library just wouldn't work out yet, because there would be no way to upload the photos to a Mac until Photos was released for the Mac (all photos would be on a server, not physically on the phone, so Image Capture wouldn't work).
Kind of a bummer they weren't able to somehow make it work on iPhoto/Aperture as a temporary transition, but oh well.
And, yes, all references has been pulled from the iOS/iCloud informational webpages. My gut feeling tells me Apple realized iPhoto Library just wouldn't work out yet, because there would be no way to upload the photos to a Mac until Photos was released for the Mac (all photos would be on a server, not physically on the phone, so Image Capture wouldn't work).
Kind of a bummer they weren't able to somehow make it work on iPhoto/Aperture as a temporary transition, but oh well.
It does work with iPhoto/Aperture, the way it always has; you use iTunes to sync selected albums/photos from iPhoto/Aperture to the phone.
The downside is that everything is mixed together in the same view. I used to like the old way, where the Camera roll was separate and stuff synced from your Mac as in its own section.