iCloud Photos

“i keep thousands of photos from my camera on icloud and it works fine”

“that should be opt-in—not a requirement to upload my entire photo library to Apple”

“but it is most of the data.”

“you can just enable iCloud to store photos locally, then export them”

“AFAIK Apple makes it very difficult to get all your icloud photos bulk downloaded”

“Apple decided there should be no permanent or indefinite option, and went through the extra effort of making it timed simply for the sake of inconvenience”

“The photo backup is so seamless.”

“just telling people to enable Google / Apple backup for photos is a chore at 5€ a month”

“my 90yr old grandmother can use WhatsApp and iCloud Photos”

“was able to gather all the pictures I had going back 20 years in under 30 seconds”

“their own iOS app also has unresolved bugs because of which I can't fully import my gallery”

“The iOS duplicate detection stopped flagging duplicates for me to merge a while back.”

“You pay Apple to deal with it (which I do) and get to live a peaceful life”

“The synchronization is opaque - more than once I checked for photos and they weren't uploaded yet.”

“iCloud syncs only happen when the device decides the mood is just right, and can't be triggered manually”

“They literally deleted his personal photo's from his phone without his consent.”

“users who buy base models are almost certainly forced to make use of iCloud Photo Library”

“iOS had "helpfully" removed the original photos from the local device to "save space"”

“Best to treat these photo sharing apps, commercial or open source, as social media.”

“for me live photos is the issue, I don't know of a good solution for making sure live photos are backed up and work”

“Peace of mind in case my house burns down”

“it should work like the iCloud Photos library; cache locally, but pull from the cloud when necessary.”

“iCloud for Photo Storage are the only parts”

“It would dramatically improve the feel of the software if it didn't seem like it just inexplicably wasn't working half the time.”

“the Mac/iOS Photos app can't download a photo or small video for several minutes”

“I can personally confirm I've downloaded an entire iCloud library at once, to a brand new Mac”

“old photos are not downloaded automatically from iCloud, and there is no button to start this process”

“I'm not ready to pay $60/month, but I do like iCloud's memories and other photo features”

“Not only is the toggle nearly impossible to find, but it's also hidden from being searchable”

“There is no straight way to download photos from iCloud to Photos App on Mac.”

“There is no way to download iCloud library that is over phone capacity. Period.”

“You need an extra tool to download your own photos? That's... not a basic feature?”

“All my vertical videos in iCloud show up cropped horizontal for some reason.”

“This strategy creates additional photo redundancy separate from iCloud while still benefiting from library syncing.”

“Apple doesn't want you to leave and making something as important as your photos difficult to move helps with that.”

“I like them better than alternatives.”

“far from perfect but is a huge boon for everyone”

“I still want my photos iCloud like, where end devices decrypt and run ML”

“This works but you must not ever disconnect the external drive.”

“Apple had a regression where they were un-deleting people's photos, that's pretty nasty”