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How to selectively choose what photos sync in Photos for Mac

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<p>Photos in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS combined with iCloud Photos is a great way to sync, and to create a kind of backup of all your photos from the moment after you capture or import them that they’re uploaded to your central iCloud storage. (Why a “kind” of backup? See later in the article.)</p><p>But what do you do if you want to use iCloud Photos selectively? You want some, but not all of the benefits.</p><p>In iOS and iPadOS, you don’t have a choice. If you have iCloud Photos enabled, every picture in Photos on your iPhone or iPad will upload to iCloud and every image there downloads (at least a thumbnail) to your device.</p><figure class="medium right"><a class="zoom" href="https://images.idgesg.net/images/article/2019/10/mac911-reference-photos-pref-100813923-orig.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://images.idgesg.net/images/article/2019/10/mac911-reference-photos-pref-100813923-medium.jpg" border="0" alt="mac911 reference photos pref" width="300" height="208" data-imageid="100813923" data-license="IDG"/>[/url] <small class="credit">IDG</small>
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<p>You can change a Photos pref to only reference, not import images.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3445482/how-to-selectively-choose-what-photos-sync-in-photos-for-mac.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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