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I just updated - not as good as it could be. It's purely a view-only system. You can't edit the photos and sync your changes back to iCloud.

It's better than it was though. So there's that. Maybe it'll improve as time goes on.

iCloud in general needs an entire rewrite, it's really died on the vine in my view. They've bolted on new features here and there but nothing is a killer app and mostly they exist just to make you pay for more storage.

Damn, I was hoping for a photo sync. :(
 
iCloud photos on Windows preserves original capture (taken date) and modification (same a taken date) date EVEN if the photo is edited (cropped, orientation, etc) on an iOS device. That way sorting pics is easier.

when you export photos with modifications on Photos for Mac, the modification date is changed. The only way on photos for Mac to export a photo with the original taken date is to export without modifications which, as the name suggests, removes the modifications.

What’s missing on Windows is support for Live Photos. Btw, it’s sad that Live Photos are two separate files on Mac, it’d have been much better it Apple had created a single file format (container)for Live Photos.

Also a thing that’s missing for Windows is support for iCloud Albums, regular ones as well as Smart Albums. The latter are also still missing from iOS.

Also, you can’t delete a photo from the windows photos app and it deletes from the server.
 
microsoft doing apples work for them.

the icloud app is a joke on windows. tried using it and it's such a mess. takes forever for photos to download, upload, sync. don't even get me started on trying to use it to save documents to or access existing ones in icloud.

apple is building all these services and i get they want people to buy their macs but them ignoring windows users is the wrong thing to do.

i'd like to use my icloud storage to sync files between my pc and iphone but it doesn't work well. to be fair, the icloud website works and they are updating it so it's not too bad.

i wanted to join apple music but they expect me to use iTunes or their buggy web player which logs me out all the time or sometimes refuses to play anything. i know there is the third party cider app but that's a buggy mess too (and the dev is a horrible person).

if apple want to compete with spotify they need to do much better. on windows if i want to sync to cloud i'll just use one drive or google or dropbox.

apple are stretching themselves too thin and or simply not interested in letting people out their mac/ios bubble. again i get that but as long as that is their approach they will not be able to compete with others. windows user base is huge and that's a lot of money they are missing out on.

they need to take windows more seriously.
Honestly, you should be using Apple hardware and software to enjoy Apple services. It's a bit much expecting Apple to have premium quality apps on every one-off platform because of a specific scenario. If I was primarily a windows user, I'd be using Spotify personally.
 
Honestly, you should be using Apple hardware and software to enjoy Apple services. It's a bit much expecting Apple to have premium quality apps on every one-off platform because of a specific scenario. If I was primarily a windows user, I'd be using Spotify personally.

As a Windows user I do use Spotify instead of Apple Music and I do use OneDrive instead of iCloud. The only thing I use iCloud for is activation lock.
 
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Apple need to fix the quality issue in iCloud photo. The photos in icloud is not the same with in iPhone. It’s degraded.
 
We should submit Feedbacknor a Radar for every bug in the Windows App until it works correctly.

I think it would be good for Apple to become a Software focused Company like Microsoft. There is so much Opportunity to run good software on their devices.
Most of what we see now is facelifts of Old Apps.
I assume this is just another re-write of the Windows iCloud App which has been various rates of terrible over the years.
 
And what are they going to do with the images they slurp up? Hmm...

Can't be any worse than what Apple will do with them, right? 🤷‍♂️

Neither Apple nor Microsoft are big on mining your photos for advertising purposes. In fact, Microsoft made a big deal about how email accounts for Outlook.com and Hotmail are not mined for advertising (they had a bunch of anti-Google ads pointing out that Microsoft does not read your email).

These two companies have other ways of making money. Can you imagine all the big corporate accounts that Microsoft would lose if they started going through people's photos for data mining? And Apple has gone to great lengths to do all the photo machine learning tasks on-device.
 
Who would have guessed 15 years ago that Microsoft would be so gun ho to integrate with Apple services? Does anybody remember when Microsoft had Zune and later when they were investing heavily in Windows Phones (not the old Windows CE devices, but the ones Nokia manufactured). The times, they are a changing.
 
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If you are on an insider build you've had this for a while. It's just that its now being released to people on standard Windows 11 platforms.
Nope not an insider. iCloud Photos works with the previous photos app. The new photos app just looks slightly different. I can’t see what the new functionality is.
 
this gives some hope they'll integrate iCloud into their Mac Office Apps :)
 
My question is, when will Microsoft roll out a version of Windows 11 that will run natively on the Apple Silicon Macs?
I do miss being able to run Windows in Boot Camp.
 
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Nope not an insider. iCloud Photos works with the previous photos app. The new photos app just looks slightly different. I can’t see what the new functionality is.

The sidebar wasn’t there before as far as I can recall.
 
My question is, when will Microsoft roll out a version of Windows 11 that will run natively on the Apple Silicon Macs?
I do miss being able to run Windows in Boot Camp.

Windows on ARM already exists and you can run it using UTM or Parallels And probably other hypervisors as well.
 
Windows on ARM already exists and you can run it using UTM or Parallels And probably other hypervisors as well.
True, but I've tried it in Parallels on my M1 14" base MacBook Pro, and it feels a little slow or laggy compared to running Windows in Boot Camp even on my old 12" retina MacBook.
 
True, but I've tried it in Parallels on my M1 14" base MacBook Pro, and it feels a little slow or laggy compared to running Windows in Boot Camp even on my old 12" retina MacBook.

I believe Parallels running on Apple Silicon is still in beta so there’s a lot of optimization left to do I’m sure. This is still early days yet for mainstream PCs running ARM processors.
 
Neither Apple nor Microsoft are big on mining your photos for advertising purposes. In fact, Microsoft made a big deal about how email accounts for Outlook.com and Hotmail are not mined for advertising (they had a bunch of anti-Google ads pointing out that Microsoft does not read your email).

These two companies have other ways of making money. Can you imagine all the big corporate accounts that Microsoft would lose if they started going through people's photos for data mining? And Apple has gone to great lengths to do all the photo machine learning tasks on-device.

You really think that would stop Microsoft? Common sense and a DOJ investigation didn't stop them, so I'm sure concerns over leafing through users photos would sure stop them in their tracks.
 
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