Troubleshoot iCloud Photo Library: How to sync images from your computer or iPhoto<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href='
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iCloud sync service with manual iTunes syncing, to no one's surprise. Sync is
hard, and when you offer users multiple ways to put data on their devices, something's bound to get borked in the process. iCloud Photo Library is no exception—the service isn't on the Mac yet, which means that if you want to use it on your iOS devices, it'll effectively wall off your iPhoto library from your mobile lifestyle. But we've got a few tricks to get those iPhoto images back onto your iPhone or iPad.</p> <!--break--> <h2>iCloud photo limbo</h2> <p>Normally, when you sync data via iCloud and connect your device to iTunes, Apple walls off manual syncing for iCloud-synced items so as to avoid confusion and duplicates. Both your computer and iOS device should be on the same iCloud account, after all; everything should be synced over the air, with no need for manual tethering.</p> <p>With your contacts, calendars, and music (presuming you have iTunes Match), this is true: If you plug in your device and open iTunes to one of those tabs, you'll be greeted with text noting that your data is being synced over the air via iCloud.</p> <p>But Apple's new
iCloud Photo Library option is in a special limbo: It's currently only available in beta form to iOS devices running iOS 8.1 or higher, with no support coming for the Mac until early 2015. (Sure, you can view images on iCloud.com, but there's no way to upload pictures to the service from your web browser.)</p> <p><a href='
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http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2014/10/icloud-photo-library-iphoto-locked.jpg?itok=Eol-Rm1w' />[/url]</p> <p>This means that if you want to enable iCloud Photo Library on your iOS devices, you'll be able to save and store all the images you've taken on your iPhone or iPad—but you'll no longer be able to sync images from iPhoto. Open iTunes, and the tab reads "[iPhone name] can access photos in iCloud. Photos can be downloaded to your device via Wi-Fi or cellular network."</p> <p>Additionally, there's no way to trick your iPhone into having both iPhoto-synced images and the iCloud Library—if you disable iCloud, sync with iPhoto, and then try to reenable iCloud Photo Library, you'll get the following message: "Photos Synced from iTunes will be Removed."</p> <p>As such, until next year, it looks like you'll have to choose which image library you want synced: your iCloud photos, made up of pictures from iOS devices, or your iPhoto library.</p> <p>If you really want to get your iPhoto images onto your device (or into iCloud Photo Library), however, there are a few hacks you can employ.</p> <h2>Option one: Use iCloud Photo Sharing</h2> <p>iPhoto may not support iCloud Photo Library, but the app does support some of iCloud's older image-sharing features, including iCloud Photo Streams. It's also my first (and favorite) hack for getting images from iPhoto onto your iOS devices. Just select the pictures you want, then create a new iCloud Photo Stream from them by clicking
Add To > iCloud or
Share > iCloud.</p> <p><a href='
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uploaded to your iCloud Photo Library) by selecting one, tapping the Share button, and hitting Save Image. (You can also select multiple pictures by tapping the Select button within a Photo Stream.)</p> <p><a href='
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Dropbox or a similar cloud storage service, you can upload images from your iPhoto library and view them in that service's iOS app, then save them locally to your device.</p> <p><a href='
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http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2014/10/icloud-photo-library-dropbox-save.jpg?itok=HTl53weU' />[/url]</p> <p>Dropbox actually has a pretty good walkthrough and
upload tool for adding iPhoto images to your online storage space; alternatively, you can even
drop your iPhoto library into Dropbox whole-hog and have those images show up in Dropbox's <a href="
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/carousel-by-dropbox/id825931374?mt=8&at=10l3Vy&ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Carousel[/url] app, though I'd recommend doing that to a
copy of your iPhoto Library, not the original, so as to prevent any potential sync errors.</p> <h2>Option three: AirDrop (if it works)</h2> <p><strike>Of course, the in-between method I would use in a heartbeat doesn't actually work: You can't currently use Apple's new cross-compatible AirDrop protocol to drop images from the Mac to an iOS device. Ah, well.</strike> Update: Looks like Mac to iOS AirDrop is
working for some folks, though I still haven't gotten it to work reliably here.</p> <p>Are you using the iCloud Photo Library beta, folks? Any other issues or problems you're running into that you'd like us to troubleshoot? Sound off in the comments.</p> </div></div></div><div id="comment-wrapper-nid-27865"></div><img width='1' height='1' src='
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