How to have iCloud Photos use less space on your iPhone or Mac
Save space on your iPhone or Mac by adjusting your iCloud Photos settings. Here’s how to optimize that storage space.
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How to download iCloud photos on Windows and Mac
If you have photos saved to iCloud that you want to put on your Windows PC or Mac, you have a few options. Here’s three different ways to download them.
How to delete multiple pictures at once in iCloud Photo Library from your browser
Find out how to select and delete several pictures at once from iCloud Photo Library, directly from your browser. While the solution may appear simple to many users, I thought we would share it as more readers might benefit from it.
How to pause iCloud Photo Library updates
If you’re traveling abroad or your Apple devices connect to the Internet via a mobile broadband modem, you may want to pause iCloud Photo Library updates on the go, here’s how.
How to stop iCloud Photo Library from eating into your iPhone’s cellular data plan
Starting with iOS 11, your iPhone can upload and sync your image library to iCloud using cellular data. Disabling it can greatly optimize your cellular data consumption, here’s how.
How to fix photos not uploading to or downloading from iCloud Photo Library
Photos aren’t uploading to or downloading from iCloud Photo Library? This simple fix should allow you to resume uploads and downloads from your iPhone or iPad.
How to disable iCloud Photo Library everywhere and recover your iCloud storage
This tutorial lays out the steps you must take to properly stop using iCloud Photo Library. We’ll show you how to download your photos and videos stored in iCloud to your computer or Mac, then we’ll ensure that the iCloud storage that’s been taken up by your synced media gets freed up.
tvOS 9.2 is here: Dictation, folders, Live Photos, wireless keyboards, iCloud Photo Library & more
tvOS 9.2, a new update for the operating system which powers the fourth-generation Apple TV, is now available for public consumption. The new firmware, released alongside iOS 9.3, OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 and watchOS 2.2, is a very interesting update for the cool new features it brings to the table.
tvOS 9.2 enables several features missing from the initial tvOS release, including long-awaited support for wireless keyboards, dictation, Siri support for App Store searches, app folders on the Home screen, a revamped app switcher, Siri Remote improvements, support for Live Photos and iCloud Photo Library and more.
Best ways to store photos in the cloud
In this post, we’ll tell you all you need to know about the most popular cloud storage solutions. We’re going to detail backing up your media to each of them and discuss recommended strategies for freeing up as much storage space as possible, without destroying your personal memories or changing your workflow much.
Poll: how does Google Photos compare to Apple’s Photos app + iCloud Photo Library combo?
Among a flurry of yesterday’s announcements at the Google I/O developer conference, the Internet giant launched Google Photos, its brand spanking new photography service available across iOS, Android and on the web. It offers unlimited storage (with a few caveats) and has many other compelling features that give Apple’s iCloud Photo Library a fairly good run for its money.
To name but a few: world-class facial recognition that understands aging, sleek design, fast performance, unmatched search and machine intelligence, the ability to create a movie, collage or animated GIF in seconds and more.
The question is, will you be turning to Google Photos as a backup solution for the media you’ve amassed on your iOS device? Or, perhaps you’ll be sticking with Apple’s iCloud Photo Library even though it offers a meager five gigabytes of free cloud storage? Planning on using Google Photos alongside iCloud Photo Library, are we? Not a big fan of either service, you say?
Tell us in today’s poll!
iCloud Photo Sharing: one of Apple’s best kept secrets
If you’re a frequent reader then you may remember my thoughts on Apple’s iCloud Photo Library beta and my lack of faith in Apple and its ability to keep my photos safe. Nobody wants to lose photographs of their kids or loved ones because Apple’s cloud solution had a meltdown one day.
And I just don’t have any expectation of that not happening at some point.
During my time spent testing iCloud Photo Library I rediscovered one feature that I had actually forgotten about since the days of the iOS 7 betas. It was as feature that I never made great use of at the time because some key members of my family didn’t have iPhones, but now that they do, I decided to revisit it.
The feature I am talking about is iCloud Photo Sharing, and it’s really rather good.
Will you trust iCloud with your memories?
The big news around the Apple blogs right now is the arrival of the first beta of Apple’s new Photos application for the Mac. Coming as part of the OS X 10.10.3 beta of Yosemite, Photos is the long awaited replacement for the aging iPhoto and to some extent, Aperture. In a world where we create gigabytes of photos each and every year, in part thanks to our iPhones, having a way to keep those images organized is vitally important to many of us. Apple thinks Photos, in combination with iCloud, is how we’re going to do just that.
But is it right?