The photos are on the cloud but also on the device, and assuming you choose to keep the originals on the device, iPhoto or image capture will see just that.
I do believe photo stream sends original quality of pictures though...
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Looks like 8.0.2 makes the iCloud Photo Library available to everyone
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The photos are on the cloud but also on the device, and assuming you choose to keep the originals on the device, iPhoto or image capture will see just that.
I do believe photo stream sends original quality of pictures though...
How can you create events? Moving forward, iPhoto will disappear and we get the same photo app on the Mac. Moments has its advantages and disadvantages but not sure I want to lose my events I manually created in the past.
How will this work together once I turn the switch on. Are photos still being copied to my monthly photo stream event in iPhoto creating duplicates when the photos app arrives on Mac eventually?
I think it is great getting everything in the cloud but a bit nervous about this duplicate business.
How will this work together once I turn the switch on. Are photos still being copied to my monthly photo stream event in iPhoto creating duplicates when the photos app arrives on Mac eventually?
I think it is great getting everything in the cloud but a bit nervous about this duplicate business.
I'm not using anything Apple that has a beta attached to it. They have a horrible track record. Heck iOS 7 functions like it's still in beta and so does iOS 8 now. Seems like the last stable ios release was 6.1.3
Yep. I'm not trusting my photos to this service. I don't trust Apple's cloud services in general. I use iCloud only for backup, contacts and calendar. There's been casing my phone has been missing Contacts for no good reason other than it's Apple.
I'll be sticking with my current system (Google Drive/Picturelife) and using this as "test" product. My photos are too precious and I've got too many too lose to Apple's buffoonery. Especially after I hear that people are losing their iCloud documents just because they hit a reset button.
I'm hoping this works out once the Mac app is out. But as it stands, iOS 8 is a piece of junk.
Apple doesn't not understand the cloud.
I'll be sticking with my current system (Google Drive/Picturelife) and using this as "test" product. My photos are too precious and I've got too many too lose to Apple's buffoonery. Especially after I hear that people are losing their iCloud documents just because they hit a reset button.
I'm hoping this works out once the Mac app is out. But as it stands, iOS 8 is a piece of junk.
Apple doesn't not understand the cloud.
...anyone from the UK able to confirm if they are seeing options for iCloud Photo Library on their iPhones in iOS 8 (no options for me on my iPhone 6 nor on my OH's iPhone 5 yet)?
Yes but not until the new Photos app for Mac is out. Although you'll have to pay for iCloud storage.
I'm in the same boat as a few others here: want to continue automatically backing up (full-res) photos to the Mac -- as currently done via PhotoStream / iPhoto -- and not use IPL to store photos, which sounds like it may glitch up this system. Hoping this will still be possible in the new IPL-centric, post-iPhoto era... (will even settle for manually backing up by plugging in).
I wanna use IPL - I've drank the Apple Kool-aid. Except - it won't let me enable it on my iPhone (is enabled and working fine on my iPad Air). On my Six Plus, it gives me a message that says "iCloud Photo Library Not Yet Available" - is anyone aware of a fix?
From my experience it will upload new photos with cellular data, but you can turn cellular data off for the photos app and it will then wait until you're on wifi.
...so you're saying that if you go to icloud.com, you have a setting/folder for Photos?
All I get are tiles for:
Contacts
Calendar
iCloud Drive
Find My iPhone
Notes
Reminders
Pages
Numbers
Keynote
Settings
Where exactly are you seeing your options for 'Photos'?
In icloud drive I have folders for imovie, keynote, pages, numbers and one labeled photos with nothing in it.
Sooo....
If I turn on the iCloud Photo Library, it will delete all my synced photos.
I currently have separate folders for things like "wallpapers" that i sync from itunes on my windows PC.
Then I'd need to upload those pictures to the IPL.. but can I make a folder to put them in or would I have to search through tons of pictures to find them?
I was fine with the photostream option since on my PC it basically had all my pictures backed up (even if it was lower res). It also retained the pictures on the PC, even if they drop off or are deleted from the photostream.
If I turn on the iCloud Photo Library, it will delete all my synced photos.
I currently have separate folders for things like "wallpapers" that i sync from itunes on my windows PC.
Then I'd need to upload those pictures to the IPL.. but can I make a folder to put them in or would I have to search through tons of pictures to find them?
I was fine with the photostream option since on my PC it basically had all my pictures backed up (even if it was lower res). It also retained the pictures on the PC, even if they drop off or are deleted from the photostream.
Yes. On iOS 8.0.2, iPhone 4S.
It's in 2 places:
Settings->iCloud->Photos
and
Settings->Photos & Camera
