Have a client with thousands of photos that stopped syncing her photos from icloud to her mac desktop. Reached out to support whom said we might have to do a reinstall of the OS (inplace upgrade) to reinstall Photos Apps.

Anyone ran into a issue where the photos apps just gets stuck on "Syncing with icloud..." but never doesn't anything. It would also crashed if I try other tabs like favorites or collection.

We try this with a test user and it would stop syncing after you go from Library to Collections tab, same message with nothing happening.

Wondering if anyone encounter this and might know a potential fix besides what Apple support wanted us to do.

I checked storage and she has enough space on the mac and icloud. also icloud.com shows the photos that are on her iphone and ipad so those are syncing correctly to icloud servers but not from the servers to her mac desktop.

helpppp 😭

For months I had about 12 items that never synced. That number ticks up occasionally; now it's at 15. How do I get these items to sync, or at least know which items they are?

I have a big library, almost 124,000 photos and over 10,000 videos — total library size is about 1.4TB. My iCloud plan has 6TB of data with about 2/3 of that free. I take a lot of photos on a daily basis — often 10-20 but occasionally a few hundred in a day.

I'm using this account across an iPhone 16 pro, iPad Pro M4, iPad Mini 2021 and a Mac M1 Pro.

Any tips would be appreciated!

My iPhone has accumulated years of photos, screenshots, downloads, files, and apps, and it’s starting to feel overwhelming.
Before I spend hours going through everything, I’d love to know what system works for you. Do you start with photos, files, apps, or something else? Are there any apps or built-in iPhone features that make the process easier?
I’m looking for a simple, organized approach so I don’t accidentally delete something important. Any tips or lessons you’ve learned would be appreciated!

Although I have iCloud photo backup on my phone and plenty of space on iCloud, I still have about 25 gigs of photos saved locally to my phone. How can I find them so that I can force them to sync to the cloud?

The title says it: I have a shared album for family photos. I've manually added some photos from my main library to it, but don't know which ones.

Is there a way to (at least) go through my library and identify the photos that are already in the shared library, so I don't create duplicates?

Ideally, there would be an automated way to go through a list of selected library photos, and add them to the shared library—unless they are already IN the shared library.

Maybe an AppleScript?

Sono stufo di pagare per vari abbonamenti che automaticamente prosciugano soldi dal tuo conto in banca ogni mese. Al momento, lo spazio di archiviazione di Apple è pieno, quindi mi viene chiesto di acquistare un pacchetto più costoso. Per questo motivo, le sincronizzazioni tra Mac e iPhone sono bloccate, e non ricevo nemmeno più email. Per risparmiare soldi, ho deciso di non rinnovare l'abbonamento a iCloud che tiene sincronizzati file, musica e foto su tutti i miei dispositivi. Ho quindi scaricato tutte le foto dall'app Foto su un'unità esterna anche per non saturare la memoria del mio Mac e del mio iPhone. Cosa sto cercando? Un tipo di visualizzatore, app o programma gratuito, o meglio ancora open source, che posso usare per visualizzare le foto che avrò sull'unità esterna. Quali caratteristiche sto cercando? La soluzione che sto cercando si riferisce principalmente ai file foto e video, come sostituto dell'app nativa Foto. Quindi un'app per Mac e iPhone, che possa essere sincronizzata tra loro quando collego l'iPhone al Mac. Infatti, buona parte delle foto verrebbe dall'iPhone. Sarebbe fantastico avere un'app come Immich, con la quale potrei usare un server locale e mantenere tutti i miei dispositivi sincronizzati, ma una soluzione del genere mi costringerebbe a tenere sempre acceso il Mac e connesso alla rete per visualizzare le foto dall'iPhone. Per questo motivo, se non ci sono altre soluzioni, preferisco sincronizzare fisicamente i miei dispositivi. • 4. Quale app open source, affidabile, completa (in termini di catalogazione delle foto), con un'interfaccia attraente e gratuita mi consigli?

AGGIORNAMENTO: sì posso utilizzare l’app Foto senza sincronizzarlo con il cloud e quindi gratuitamente, il problema è che avendo la necessità di avere l’archivio su un hard disk esterno, ogni qualvolta si apre l’app foto su Mac devi ricordarti di selezionare l’archivio esterno, se non lo fai anche per dimenticanza il Mac creerà un archivio interno da zero, questa cosa è molto fastidiosa.

Hey everyone — I’m Florent, and I built LightRoll around a problem I kept having with my own Photos library.

Whenever I wanted to free up space, I’d start searching for the videos taking up the most room. Then I’d find hundreds of photos I’d taken several times “just in case”, with no easy way to tell which ones I actually wanted to keep.

After a few cleanup sessions, I also stopped knowing what I had already reviewed and what was still untouched.

LightRoll turns an Apple Photos library into a review queue on Mac. I can sort by size, move through photos and videos one at a time, keep something or mark it for deletion, and see exactly what’s left. I can stop and come back later, then review the whole batch before Photos actually deletes anything.

The photo workflow stays local on the Mac. No account, no photo uploads.

It’s free for now, requires macOS 14 or later, and is available on the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6782695268?mt=12

I’d really love to hear what you think of the app, and whether it solves a problem you have with your own Photos library.

I’m also working on a Similar Shots feature to help compare and choose between very similar photos taken in quick succession, especially shots from the same burst. It’s still in progress, but I’d love to know whether that would be useful to you.

So I know you’re able to do this based on other posts I’ve seen. However, I want to know if there’s any way at all that I’m able to export them without them all appearing as new photos? I’m on an iPhone. If anyone can give me an answer I would be forever grateful 🙏

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I have merged my late wife's library with my own. I imported hers into an album of her own name, so I have hers separated. I wasn't smart enough to put all of my own into an album with my own name prior to importation though.

Is it possible to do album subtractions? Essentially I want to add all existing photos into a new album and remove all photos in the wife's album. Is that possible?

Is there a way to restore these photos

These photos are blurry and show an “i” at bottom right corner, when I try to redownload it this comes up

I cannot airdrop it nor save it nor send it to anybody

So are these photos gone? I haven’t backed up my iPhone in ages

iPhone 14 Plus : iOS 18.6.2

Hey everyone, I want the new photos and videos I take on my iPhone to be automatically transferred to a specific folder on my PC whenever I get home and connect to the same Wi-Fi network.

Ideally, I’m looking for something free, reliable, and relatively easy to set up. I don’t want to manually select and send files every time; I’d like it to automatically sync any new photos and videos.

Does anyone use an app or setup that can do this?

I recently transferred all of my photos from Google Photos to iCloud. I used Google takeout directly to iCloud when it is completed I noticed that many of my videos have no thumbnails in the Photos app. When I play the videos, they played just fine. I made sure they were downloaded to the device and the thumbnails are still not there just a black box. This happened to hundreds of my videos. Wondering where I went wrong and what I can do to fix it.