Icloud for photographs

IronSpider · 25 Oct 2019 at 12:35

My wife was having storage issues with her phone and purchased upgraded icloud for her photographs. She mistakenly thought you could put them in 'the cloud' and not have them on your phone.

So now she has them backed up to the cloud and the optimised/compressed pic on her phone. My question is how do you know which ones are optimised and what happens if you decide to cancel the icloud plan. How do you retrieve your photographs back in the uncompressed state?

She is thinking of using a different cloud method that doesn't mean you have to have them on the phone.

Deleted member 77746 · 25 Oct 2019 at 13:21

yeh use a free cloud method. mega.nz 50gb free encrypted.

Biz.Kid09 · 25 Oct 2019 at 13:33

IronSpider said:
My wife was having storage issues with her phone and purchased upgraded icloud for her photographs. She mistakenly thought you could put them in 'the cloud' and not have them on your phone.

So now she has them backed up to the cloud and the optimised/compressed pic on her phone. My question is how do you know which ones are optimised and what happens if you decide to cancel the icloud plan. How do you retrieve your photographs back in the uncompressed state?

She is thinking of using a different cloud method that doesn't mean you have to have them on the phone.

AFAIK all of the ones on your phone will be 'optimised' and all the originals are stored in iCloud. You can access the originals via icloud.com and you can just select them all if you want and download. Explained here; https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204264

IronSpider · 25 Oct 2019 at 14:32

Thanks both of you for that.

Combat squirrel · 25 Oct 2019 at 21:34

IronSpider said:
My wife was having storage issues with her phone and purchased upgraded icloud for her photographs. She mistakenly thought you could put them in 'the cloud' and not have them on your phone.

So now she has them backed up to the cloud and the optimised/compressed pic on her phone. My question is how do you know which ones are optimised and what happens if you decide to cancel the icloud plan. How do you retrieve your photographs back in the uncompressed state?

She is thinking of using a different cloud method that doesn't mean you have to have them on the phone.

As Biz Kid says, its dynamic and does it behind the scenes - in short, your over thinking it.

If you want to download or export an original it will do so as you browse that or export it - just use the phones as is, because in reality no one makes massive prints of their photos these days, and if your wife does, it will automatically grab the original file

Deleted member 77746 · 26 Oct 2019 at 13:23

The thing about storing things in the cloud over and over and over in iCloud is that eventually the phone space will be depleted and there won't be any more room to store anything unless it's maintained. You can easy use 128GB in photos and videos alone not to mention apps/music and documents.

Combat squirrel · 28 Oct 2019 at 12:16

mrbell1984 said:
The thing about storing things in the cloud over and over and over in iCloud is that eventually the phone space will be depleted and there won't be any more room to store anything unless it's maintained. You can easy use 128GB in photos and videos alone not to mention apps/music and documents.

No, it doesn't work like that - the phone keeps approx 30 days of recent photos locally, and then only small file sizes locally for others - iv got 227gb of photos/video, but on my phone its about 25-30gb space used, the rest is in icloud and i can just browse any photos anytime, and it downloads what i need for full res ones.

Deleted member 77746 · 28 Oct 2019 at 13:36

Combat squirrel said:
No, it doesn't work like that - the phone keeps approx 30 days of recent photos locally, and then only small file sizes locally for others - iv got 227gb of photos/video, but on my phone its about 25-30gb space used, the rest is in icloud and i can just browse any photos anytime, and it downloads what i need for full res ones.

Assuming you purchased bigger storage in the cloud though yeh? that's cool never knew it worked like that.

Combat squirrel · 28 Oct 2019 at 16:54

mrbell1984 said:
Assuming you purchased bigger storage in the cloud though yeh? that's cool never knew it worked like that.

Yeah i got the 2tb one for £7.99 a month which is cheaper than most and i like apples privacy approach to user files - unlike google etc who sell everything and read all the contents of drive for advertising and god knows what else

iMacMart · 2 Nov 2019 at 17:54

Hi Guys

Just to jump in on this thread I purchased 200gb and I’ve got 9.56gb of photos and videos and my wife has about 26.49gb :eek:

but when I look at my iCloud storage it shows 13.2gb out of 200gb used? Both phones appears to have iCloud enabled I’m struggling to know if it’s working or not?

Any advice would be great, thanks!!

iMacMart · 3 Nov 2019 at 16:39

Ignore the above, looks like it’s all uploaded now 48.2gb

iMacMart · 5 Nov 2019 at 19:50

Me again

My wife’s has 26gb of photos going back 5 or 6 years and she wants to do some calendars/mugs etc for family gifts etc

She would like to use the family iPad to do all this but is there any way she can access her photos from that device, we have the iCloud family share enabled but it looks like you have to add each photo is there a way to add all?

cant seem to find a clear answer on the net

Combat squirrel · 6 Nov 2019 at 17:52

iMacMart said:
Me again

My wife’s has 26gb of photos going back 5 or 6 years and she wants to do some calendars/mugs etc for family gifts etc

She would like to use the family iPad to do all this but is there any way she can access her photos from that device, we have the iCloud family share enabled but it looks like you have to add each photo is there a way to add all?

cant seem to find a clear answer on the net

Interesting one, i think maybe enable photo stream - but yeah apple are not good at this - she might just have to sign in on her own account, probably the fastest way of doing it. - otherwise create a shared album - and add her image choices to that, then hop on the ipad to use and upload

iMacMart · 6 Nov 2019 at 18:39

Combat squirrel said:
Interesting one, i think maybe enable photo stream - but yeah apple are not good at this - she might just have to sign in on her own account, probably the fastest way of doing it. - otherwise create a shared album - and add her image choices to that, then hop on the ipad to use and upload

Damn them! Appreciate the reply though @Combat squirrel

Combat squirrel · 7 Nov 2019 at 00:23

iMacMart said:
Damn them! Appreciate the reply though @Combat squirrel

No worries, ill look into it more as well because its something im interested in - but apple suck for this and also for having your account signed in on Apple TV but disable your photo stream for example, dont want my whole family seeing that! haha

--Mike-- · 10 Nov 2019 at 18:33

How about Airdropping from one to another and then deleting them afterwards?

iMacMart · 11 Nov 2019 at 16:12

--Mike-- said:
How about Airdropping from one to another and then deleting them afterwards?

Thats an option! Will take a look, never used AirDrop to be fair

iMacMart · 20 Nov 2019 at 14:21

Rather than start a new thread I'm giving my XS Max to my wife and work are giving me an XR (Can only use corp devices so XS Max is out) but if I sync to iCloud can I restore my XS Max to my new XR so apps in the same folder, all apps installed, settings passwords etc? This is the first time I've ever used iCloud and just want to make sure I don't miss anything when it comes to syncing

Juicy Jama · 20 Nov 2019 at 14:53

IronSpider said:
My wife was having storage issues with her phone and purchased upgraded icloud for her photographs. She mistakenly thought you could put them in 'the cloud' and not have them on your phone.

So now she has them backed up to the cloud and the optimised/compressed pic on her phone. My question is how do you know which ones are optimised and what happens if you decide to cancel the icloud plan. How do you retrieve your photographs back in the uncompressed state?

She is thinking of using a different cloud method that doesn't mean you have to have them on the phone.

Would assume you have to retrieve all the photos before cancelling to service

iMacMart · 20 Nov 2019 at 15:32

Jama said:
Would assume you have to retrieve all the photos before cancelling to service

Ignore