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Redesigned Photos Web App on iCloud.com Now Available for Everyone
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Far more value if Apple would spend some time making a photo app for PC users that can sync pictures with Icloud photos. The current icloud control panel sucks. There needs to be a basic photo organizer like picasa with syncing bolted on. Its not rocket science. 90% of the market is never going to buy a Mac but Apple is shooting itself in the for by not making syncing with iPhones work better.
Google Photos lacks a dedicated client on the computer to manage your library like Apple has, though.
I like having Photos.app to not only manage my library but also to have the whole library stored locally at full resolution. You can't do that with Google.
Use the zoom in/out bar at the top:
then tap on first pic, shift+tap on last one.
Edit: just tried it doesn't work lol ,only command key works so yea.. you have to select one by one.. "it just works" you know..
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After first testing out a new update to the Photos web app on the iCloud beta website earlier this month, Apple has now rolled out the update to all users (via Mac Generation). The overhaul to the app on iCloud.com introduces a macOS-like Photos experience with a sidebar that can be toggled on and off, and a scrollable thumbnail view of every photo in an album at the bottom of the site when looking at individual pictures.
Previously, Photos on iCloud.com placed albums in a tab bar at the top of the site, so the update makes it easier to navigate multiple albums at once. To top off the navigation tweaks, there are also four action buttons in the top right corner of the web app for uploading, adding, downloading, sharing, and deleting albums and photos.
The Photos web app on iCloud.com is still lacking macOS and iOS features like editing, shared albums, memories, and people, which uses facial recognition to organize your photos on Mac and iPhone. Users can head over to iCloud.com to check out the new Photos update on the site.
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From what I've understood, this well never be possible since iMessage uses end-to-end encryption and Apple don't store your messages. At least not possible without a rework of the service works. But yeah, would be awesome. Worst case, a windows app.
You could get pretty close. Regarding the resolution, you can pay Google for more Drive space and store photos at full resolution (no different than paying Apple for more space but cheaper). Could go extreme and switch over to a Google Pixel phone where you get free, unlimited original-quality photo and video backups. Then from a Windows or Mac PC, you have Google Photos online that really isn't all that different of an experience than an app on a computer at this point. It is also packed full of features that work well. Obviously, there is the privacy issue, which may be the only redeeming quality for Apple if you were to do a Pros and Cons comparison.Google Photos lacks a dedicated client on the computer to manage your library like Apple has, though.
I like having Photos.app to not only manage my library but also to have the whole library stored locally at full resolution. You can't do that with Google.
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Not if you change the option to store original photos and videos instead (or switch to a Google Pixel phone and get unlimited, original storage for free). And if you run out of Google Drive space, you pay for more just like we have to with iCloud but cheaper.
My hope is that someone in Apple actually cares about what users say online and takes it into account. They need to hear critical feedback if they aren't getting it internally. You'd assume they know very well how they stack up against Google and how the public perceives this, but you have to wonder sometime if the right people in Apple are hearing it.
HORRIBLE THINGS JUST HAPPENED ON ICLOUD PHOTOS! The "select photo" function has been removed as a bad-bad "Christmas Gift", and also the function to select multiple (or all) photos by using shift-command keys. So, for those who, like me took a few hundred vacation photos and like to download these to your PC, then you will be busy for a while clicking each photo while holding the control-key. I wonder that Apple did this as to discourage people to move photos to their hard drives, and pay more for iCloud storage?! There are still people who wish to have their dear photos backed up on an external drive.. What a cheap way to make business, by causing inconvenience.
Disappointed by this move, bad Apple now.
[doublepost=1482827232][/doublepost]HORRIBLE THINGS JUST HAPPENED ON ICLOUD PHOTOS! The "select photo" function has been removed as a bad-bad "Christmas Gift", and also the function to select multiple (or all) photos by using shift-command keys. So, for those who, like me took a few hundred vacation photos and like to download these to your PC, then you will be busy for a while clicking each photo while holding the control-key. I wonder that Apple did this as to discourage people to move photos to their hard drives, and pay more for iCloud storage?! There are still people who wish to have their dear photos backed up on an external drive.. What a cheap way to make business, by causing inconvenience.
Disappointed by this move, bad Apple now.
Disappointed by this move, bad Apple now.
[doublepost=1482827232][/doublepost]HORRIBLE THINGS JUST HAPPENED ON ICLOUD PHOTOS! The "select photo" function has been removed as a bad-bad "Christmas Gift", and also the function to select multiple (or all) photos by using shift-command keys. So, for those who, like me took a few hundred vacation photos and like to download these to your PC, then you will be busy for a while clicking each photo while holding the control-key. I wonder that Apple did this as to discourage people to move photos to their hard drives, and pay more for iCloud storage?! There are still people who wish to have their dear photos backed up on an external drive.. What a cheap way to make business, by causing inconvenience.
Disappointed by this move, bad Apple now.
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