I have an iPhone Pro and an iPad Pro. I have iCloud Photos enabled and ‘Optimise Storage’ turned on for both as my photo library is in excess of 1TB.
It always seems far too keen to put everything in the cloud immediately. It’s infuriating when you’re travelling or on holiday… whether it be editing a video of some clips you’ve taken or just sharing photos with people. You have to wait for it to redownload the content back from the cloud. Skiing last week I took some videos on the slopes and when I tried to air drop them to my mates when we got back to the hotel they were already in the cloud and had to download them all.
This isn’t exactly a genius idea but surely they could add an option to exclude new content or even ’keep content on device for one week’ or something like that.
/rant
(In the time it took me to write this my iPhone just downloaded a 4K HDR video back from the server on to the phone so I could crop it… the same video that I rendered in Luma Fusion to the phone less than an hour ago. Kind of hoping by posting this someone can suggest a workaround)
It always seems far too keen to put everything in the cloud immediately. It’s infuriating when you’re travelling or on holiday… whether it be editing a video of some clips you’ve taken or just sharing photos with people. You have to wait for it to redownload the content back from the cloud. Skiing last week I took some videos on the slopes and when I tried to air drop them to my mates when we got back to the hotel they were already in the cloud and had to download them all.
This isn’t exactly a genius idea but surely they could add an option to exclude new content or even ’keep content on device for one week’ or something like that.
/rant
(In the time it took me to write this my iPhone just downloaded a 4K HDR video back from the server on to the phone so I could crop it… the same video that I rendered in Luma Fusion to the phone less than an hour ago. Kind of hoping by posting this someone can suggest a workaround)
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