Ok, this seems to be a small bug. I had to check "Selected albums, Events, and Faces...", sync, then recheck "All Photos, albums, events..." and re-sync to get the photos back.
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iOS 8.1 Brings iCloud Photo Library to All Users, With Images Accessible on iOS Devices, iCloud.com
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Ok, this seems to be a small bug. I had to check "Selected albums, Events, and Faces...", sync, then recheck "All Photos, albums, events..." and re-sync to get the photos back.
Also Enabled iCloud Photo Library (Beta), and seems to be working happily across iPhone 5, iPad Air and MacBook Air. On the iPad I chose to "Optimise" storage to save space. If I click on a photo on my iPad, does the full-res version download from iCloud and replace the low-res version completely?
I too would still like camera roll; to isolate all images and phone images
What happens when you exceed the limit on photos in the cloud
What happens when you exceed the limit of storage in the cloud. Do the old photos get deleted to make space for the newer ones? If so, and the photos haven't been backed up or saved somehow, this will be frustrating. I already use a cloud service...I don't want to add another one.
What happens when you exceed the limit of storage in the cloud. Do the old photos get deleted to make space for the newer ones? If so, and the photos haven't been backed up or saved somehow, this will be frustrating. I already use a cloud service...I don't want to add another one.
I'm still not sure what you mean... How do you access the full res version from an IOS device? Under the iCloud photo settings on the IOS device the option is to have the images "Optimize iPhone Storage". Doesn't this mean the versions on the IOS device are not the full res versions either?
This was already attempted and turned down...
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/dr...gits-acquisition-offer-from-apple-steve-jobs/
i can guarantee you NOBODY EVER, EVER EVER would want to see your photos. Who are you? Why would they want to see you? Man please. And it wasn't hacking.
Anyway, i was sceptic at first, but then i decided to enable it. Enabled on iPad Air with 1444 photos and 6 videos, enabled on the iPhone, after 3 hours there are the exact same number of photos and videos on iPad and iPhone. take a photo on iPad and it pop on the iPhone within 30 seconds. Love it. Works fine (at least for now). The only thing i don't know is how to make it only sync on wifi, never on 3G?
Didn't we already have this years ago? I could take pictures on the phone and the showed up in iPhoto right away. Then I disabled it because it got wonky with stuff syncing back and forth, deletion not working, etc.
Gotta say I'm quite sick and tired with Apple renaming the online stuff all the time. .mac .me .mobileme .iCloud ... when is it gonna end?
All I want is WIFI sync for everything, keep my files out of the cloud please! It's bad enough that Notes can only be synced over the cloud. At least I know where the files reside, I can do all the backing up and encrypting myself.
Gotta say I'm quite sick and tired with Apple renaming the online stuff all the time. .mac .me .mobileme .iCloud ... when is it gonna end?
All I want is WIFI sync for everything, keep my files out of the cloud please! It's bad enough that Notes can only be synced over the cloud. At least I know where the files reside, I can do all the backing up and encrypting myself.
I don't know about when you take just one picture, but I know that when you first turn the feature on, all the uploading, etc, is only done on Wifi and pauses when you're on cellular.
On an iOS device you'll have to choose "Download and Keep Originals" under Settings -> Photos & Camera.
If choosing that option, all photos & videos stored locally on the phone are kept in full resolution. Copying them off onto a computer will get you the original full resolution versions of them.
I would really like to use iCloud Photo Library, but 240 $/ for 1TB per year is just ridiculous. Flickr gives you the same amount of space for "free". This is especially mind-boggling, when you consider that I and probably most of us already paid thousands of Dollars/Euros to Apple for the hardware, but almost nobody will feel the need to pay Yahoo anything, beyond the 1TB with ads.
I'm totally willing to pay for good service, but $240 per year more just for some convenience and certainly more questionable reliability considering Apple's cloud service track record. Uhm, no thanks, Apple.
Since I'm not holding my breath for Photos for Mac to have all the Aperture features I like, I will probably have to switch my photo management away from Apple software and services, so no reason to get into this now.
I'm totally willing to pay for good service, but $240 per year more just for some convenience and certainly more questionable reliability considering Apple's cloud service track record. Uhm, no thanks, Apple.
Since I'm not holding my breath for Photos for Mac to have all the Aperture features I like, I will probably have to switch my photo management away from Apple software and services, so no reason to get into this now.
I enabled the iCloud photo library beta on my 4S. Then disabled it. I lost access to camera roll until I rebooted the phone. It's now back but the My Photostream on phone is empty. I took a new snap on my iPad and it appeared on the iPhone. Might wait and see if it syncs later, but I don't hold out much hope.
Handling of photos just doesn't seem to be Apples strong point these days.
Update
Turned photo stream off and on again from under the iCloud setting on the phone and whoopee, magically repopulating my photostream. Leaving beta to braver folks.
Handling of photos just doesn't seem to be Apples strong point these days.
Update
Turned photo stream off and on again from under the iCloud setting on the phone and whoopee, magically repopulating my photostream. Leaving beta to braver folks.
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Since iCloud SUCKS What is Best Cloud Storage Service?
Since iCloud is lackluster and underwhelming to say the least
. Is there any other hands-down "BEST" cloud storage service for photos and documents, etc? Reliability, datacenter infrastructure, features, security, privacy, cross-platform are important factors. I'm thinking of Goolge Drive vs Flickr vs Dropbox. Please someone tell me which to go with
Since iCloud is lackluster and underwhelming to say the least
. Is there any other hands-down "BEST" cloud storage service for photos and documents, etc? Reliability, datacenter infrastructure, features, security, privacy, cross-platform are important factors. I'm thinking of Goolge Drive vs Flickr vs Dropbox. Please someone tell me which to go with neat feature, but I believe it kind of locks you into purchasing more cloud storage to host all your photos, which I will not do. I pretty much keep only the photos I've taken on my iphone, all my others are on my mac. I treat my iphone as a pocket point and shoot. if I am going someplace and really want to take pics I'll take my DSLR with me.
Right, but that defeats the whole purpose. The whole point is to have smaller versions on your phone and full res versions on iCloud that you can then access at a later time if you want the full res image.
For anyone who's been a heavy user of iPhoto/Aperture, does iCloud Photo Library categorize your photos the same way? I have several albums that are synced via iTunes from Aperture, and I'm wondering how Photo Library would affect this.
This is what I find confusing - I tap a thumbnail in Photos on my iPad, the image goes full screen, and a small circular timer appears bottom right until the image "pops" from low res to a better res. So is the image rendering the photo stored on my iPad, or is it downloading the full res image from iCloud? If the latter, does the new high res image replace the original low res version?
If you chose to store full res and still see the little circle on some photos it means it's still downloading them, if you check back a minute later you will see that that phot and photos near that one are already downloaded as well. I don't know how optimized photos look, I chose full Res on both devices
I chose full res on my iPhone but optimised on the iPad. I get the little circle on my iPad until the image renders, downloads, or whatever it's doing!
It does it only 1 time per photo, right? If you go back and then open the photo again it doesn't load again? Also, how is the optimized quality? And how much space did you save?
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Just tried taking a pic on the iPad while being on cellular, it says in the bottom (where it says "updating" etc) "wifi is required - 1 photo to upload" . Good.
Yes, that seems to be the case - once opened, the photo seems to stay at full res, assuming that's optimised res and not the full, original res of the photograph. Not sure about space saving as I installed 8.1 immediately before activating iCloud Photo Library and didn't check before/after storage. Optimised quality, if that's what I'm seeing, looks OK.