DELETE ALL iCloud Photos the CORRECT WAY!

[@stephenrowe4998]

Amazing video! Production value and clarity of information is top quality!

[@Learnwithjoel]

I appreciate you and your kind words @stephenrowe4998! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@getbenlee]

Totally agree with you, top class production, clear and simple to understand with all 3 devices iphone, iPad and iMac side by side, he is amazing ! Very Clear and Sound Mind in deciphering out the whole maze of iCloud Photos, none of Apple tech guys I talk to can explain the whole concept so well like him 👍👍👍

[@wegotthepower]

Okay I haven’t even started watching this video yet (have to get some work done first), but this video really, really comes in handy for me because I’m having a mess with all my photos 🙈 I really like taking photos & edit them, but I haven’t been able to learn/create a structure of how to organize, declutter & delete those I don’t want anymore. Will definitely watch this as soon as possible! So thank you in advance! 🙏🏼

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @wegotthepower! This video may not show the extent of organizing of your photos, but this shows the process of how iCloud Photos syncs and what it's designed to do. In addition to show users how to delete and stop using iCloud Photos altogether. I have tons of other videos on my channel related to Photos, so be sure to check them out. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@wegotthepower]

@@Learnwithjoel Thank you so much for your reply! I’ll definitely need to watch this video too I think to know that I’ve grasped what iCloud Photos is designed to do, but I’ll also watch your other ones. Are there any videos in particular where you talk about photos you think would be helpful?

[@jrich99]

Thanks!

[@Learnwithjoel]

@jrich99, your CONTRIBUTION is so helpful and gives me the opportunity to create more content! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!

[@archl6290]

Awesome Info, I already lost my important note in iCloud and it's making me crazy, now I don't want to loose my photos so Thank you so much Joel for this information.

[@Learnwithjoel]

It's always important to have a backup and it's more important to know how all these systems work @archl6290! Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been helped you, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.

[@JLFranc000]

I stumbled onto your channel trying to learn more about iCloud ; so I then can try to explain to my wife . Your video was extremely helpful . Thanks for the tutorial and keep up the great videos ; I just subscribed 👌

[@Learnwithjoel]

I appreciate you and your kind words @JLFranc000! Thank you for your continued support. Your appreciation is deeply valued! If this video has proven beneficial, I would be honored if you could share it on social media and express your gratitude for its assistance. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@tinalyd]

Thank you for explaining iCloud photo in a simple Way.

[@Learnwithjoel]

That's my goal @tinalyd! Thank you for your continued support. Your appreciation is deeply valued! If this video has proven beneficial, I would be honored if you could share it on social media and express your gratitude for its assistance or click THANKS! Your support helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@michelemcnally2002]

Wow Joel! Fabulous video, thank you so much. If you can help me solve another problem that's driving me crazy (how to find the phantom duplicate photos on my iPhone and delete them permanently) you'll be my hero for ever. I've spent hours today trying to find a way to do it (Google search, KZbin videos) all to no avail. Tomorrow I'll watch your 'Getting rid of duplicates' video...fingers crossed! But this video was great. So clear and easy to follow. Bless you. Subscribed! 😊

[@suepeterson1230]

LOVE this. Have an old laptop with Windows 10 OS about to age out…& have been trying to figure out how to move forward without the PC but still stream my own music that I ripped & saved to iTunes years ago. It really is silly…that it has to be an Apple work-around. Thank you so much!

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @suepeterson1230! Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been helped you, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.

[@karangupta2535]

Hi, I am really confused so I want to download the icloud photos into my phone and if i delete from icloud on my iphone the data should be there in the local that i have download. Can you please help me here? In one option If i turn off the sync it gives me the option to download and sync will be off so that means it will be downloaded on my iphone and I delete the photod from icloud it will stay as it is in my iphone?

[@laurenkasap326]

Very helpful video, I just have two quick questions regarding syncing. I have a MacBook and an Iphone. I only want my photos on my iPhone, not on my mac because they are filling up all my storage. I turned cloud sync off on my MacBook like you said. 1) Am I now free to delete all of my photos from my MacBook photos to free up that space? 2) If I ever decided to resyc my MacBook to icloud photos, would my empty MacBook photos library resync and add from my icloud/phone photos? Or would my icloud sync to my empty MacBook photos library and delete my icloud photos? I feel like its the first option but I want to be sure before I delete all my photos from my MacBook. Thank you!

[@mostafaabdelmawla2778]

i have the same exact problem... i turned icloud off on my ipad but the old photos are still there.. do i simply delete them ?

[@larmaz13]

Great video. If I sync my iPhone IPad and Mac photos and have my Mac set to download originals does ICloud delete photos off the Mac if I delete from my phone or iPad? Is ICloud not a backup of my photos?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @larmaz13! Yes, regardless if you have the Mac set to download the originals (which is an excellent idea), if you have iCloud Photos turned on to sync on your iPhone, iPad and Mac and you delete a photo, it will still delete from every other device from everywhere. As far as an iCloud Backup, your Photos are not actually backed up within an iCloud Backup...I have a video that talks about this that I will link below for reference: iCLOUD BACKUPS - WHAT you NEED TO KNOW when it comes to backing up PHOTOS, iPHONES and your devices! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZbTaqOIetWfepo Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!

[@beautybykasi]

Is there an easy way to simply delete all the photos off my old iPad that my son is now using? He is using my same Apple ID but I’ve turned off iCloud for photos but I’m afraid if I do what you suggested, it’s going to delete everything in Icloud.

[@TheMsOShow]

Thank you for the great video. I do have a question. If I turn off the icloud photos and I choose not to download a copy because I have been syncing all of my photos to Google photos will it erase all of the photos I have currently on my iphone? Meaning once the 30 days are up, when I go to my photos on my phone will the ones I didnt download from the cloud be deleted? I have over 37,000 items so I know it will take forever to download and take up a ton of space but if I have them on google cloud then I would still have them I assume. Thank you!

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @TheMsOShow! So let's say on your iPhone, you toggle off the option for iCloud Photos to sync and it gives you that message saying you have 30 days to download and then they'll be removed. Essentially what will happen is it will download as much as it can and if you run out of local space, it will just stop and anything that hasn't downloaded will be removed only from that device. The photos and such are still on iCloud and any other Apple device your'e syncing iCloud Photos with. My guess is that if you have 37,000 photos, it most likely will not download them all. There is a way you can migrate your iCloud Photos to Google though. That would be a good option if you're planning to switch and use Google Photos over iCloud Photos. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been helped you, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.

[@agyemangosei-tutu]

Thanks I really love the way you explain everything 😊

[@Learnwithjoel]

Ah, thanks @agyemangosei-tutu! I appreciate you and your kind words! Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video! If it was helpful or you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support the content I make, click THANKS at the top, or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! Your support helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@drgashi]

Hi, is it possible to setup in icloud so let say you take picture with iphone , goes to the icloud and gets downloaded to let say the imac but not in your iphone..., so this way you don't take space at all in your iphone.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @drgashi! iCloud Photos is designed to sync all photos/videos to every device that is using the same iCloud Apple ID. So if you took a photo with your iPhone, it will go to iCloud and then go to your iMac, but the photo/video will still be on the iPhone. If you delete from the iPhone, it will be deleted everywhere else. The best thing to do on your iPhone, or Mac too, is to turn on the storage optimization for iCloud Photos. I have a couple videos that talk about this concept that I'll link below for reference: FREE UP SPACE on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac - The BEST WAY to OPTIMIZE iPhone & iPad Storage kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHjQf2B5YpuKbaM Storage is FULL! - How to OPTIMIZE FILES and FIX your STORAGE PROBLEMS on Macs, iPhones and iPads kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJmqeGmdpK6BeK8 THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@filk2300]

Thanks for video Joel! Little confused if I have some photos on my iPad which is synced to cloud with my mac and iPhone, then I check off sync on my iPad does that mean the original photos I have on my iPad that I shared originally on Icloud would not be available on icloud and other devices would only be on iPad or are those photos still there but I would not see the other photos from icloud taken on iPhone and mac?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Great question @filk2300! If you had all of your devices syncing with iCloud Photos and just turned off syncing on your iPad, all of the previous photos would be in iCloud. It just means that any new photos taken on your iPad would not go to iCloud or the iPhone, and any new photos taken on the iPhone, would not show up on the iPad. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@dexplore97]

This is a great video. You did a great job showing and explaining. Thanks.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @dexplore97! I appreciate you and your kind words! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!

[@Antoba-ji2zu]

I have a question: I have a Macbook and an iPhone, both with the same Apple ID. I want to turn OFF iPhoto on MAC. You cleared showed how to do so. Once I’ll do it, will I be free then to delete from my MAC every Photo/Videos till then stored, without influencing my Iphone and iCloud, right?

[@laurenkasap326]

I have the same question! Did you have any luck?

[@laurenkasap326]

Also wondering if I were to resync my mac to the cloud in the future if the MacBook would redownload every photo from the cloud or if the cloud would sync to the MacBook and delete every photo.... I feel the second option is unlikely but I've been burned by apple many times 😢

[@Antoba-ji2zu]

@@laurenkasap326 didn't delete them yet.. I'm afraid lol

[@Antoba-ji2zu]

@@laurenkasap326 oh that's a good question indeed!!!!! I don't know :(

[@michaelfitzpatrick9701]

If I have a brand new iPhone and set it up manually without transferring photos from my old iPhone, will the new iPhone sync it's photo library of 0 photos and thus remove them from my old device? Or will it just continue to add to iCloud onto of the photos that were uploaded by my old phone?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Great question @michaelfitzpatrick9701! It depends if you're using and syncing iCloud Photos or not. If your old iPhone has 1,000 photos on it with iCloud Photos turned on, those 1,000 photos will download to your new iPhone the moment you turn on iCloud Photos in the settings. If you setup your new iPhone manually and did not do an iCloud Restore or the bluetooth transfer from old to new device, there will obviously be no photos on the new phone. But again, if you toggle iCloud Photos on within settings, it will just start to download anything that is there. If you were to take new photos on your iPhone without turning on iCloud Photos they would only live on that new iPhone. If you then turned on iCloud Photos afterwards, they would merge and show up on the old iPhone as well as any other device that you're syncing iCloud Photos. I hope that makes sense! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@Josh-od6oc]

So I am completely confused about the mac and storing photos on it. Lets say I scan a bunch of photos, and I want to save them on my mac. Where can they be saved (that is not the desktop and documents folders) where they would they be backed up? Possibly Icloud drive or an external SSD? This has always been my confusion with photos. If you save in the folder Photos, it doesn't back up the pics there, correct?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Great question @Josh-od6oc! Let me break it down and hopefully it will make sense. On the Mac, every user account has the same starting file structure. You have your main "Home" folder and within that you have the Desktop, Documents, Music, Movies, Downloads, and Public folders. All of the photos by default live locally on the internal hard drive. When you scan or import any photos/videos they can go to any of these locations and it's only locally on the internal drive. Now the two confusing parts: 1: iCloud Photos 2: Backup 1: iCloud Photos... So if you have iCloud Photos turned on within System Settings on your Mac, that means that any photos/videos imported into the Photos App will sync to iCloud Photos. This means that they will then sync to iCloud where you can access from any web browser and any other Apple Device that you're signed in with the same Apple ID Account. This also means that the photos are typically stored locally on your Mac, unless you have the option to "optimize photos" turned on within the Apple Photos App Settings. The tricky part is that iCloud on the Mac is NOT a backup. It's a syncing tool for convenience. It gives you the ability to have access to all of your photos/videos from any of your devices at any time. I have a ton of videos about iCloud Photos and understanding how it's designed to work and how it syncs on my channel, so be sure to check them out! Also keep in mind that any photos/videos are saved within an Apple Photo Library. The library is kinda like a folder, but instead of you organizing the items inside, Apple does it for you and you just organize the photos/videos within the Photos App. This library by default lives in the "Pictures" folder located within your "Home" folder. So just by having other photos within the "Pictures" folder does NOT mean they will be in iCloud Photos. 2: Backing up photos/videos and files iCloud does not back up your files located on your Mac. iCloud "technically" backups your iPhone or iPad, but I personally wouldn't call it a backup. I have a whole video that explains why that I'll link below for reference about that. Your best bet is to use an external hard drive and use the built in Time Machine Software. This will literally backup everything on your Mac for you. Time Machine is very easy to setup and use, but it has some limitations. I would recommend to check out videos on that too! iCloud - What the Purpose is & How is it supposed to work! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qonUXqODi5ljm68 iCloud Apple Photo Library VS Referenced Apple Photo Library - the DIFFERENCE & WHY it MATTERS! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqvGn6F6asuapdk iCLOUD BACKUPS - WHAT you NEED TO KNOW when it comes to backing up PHOTOS, iPHONES and your devices! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZbTaqOIetWfepo BACKUP YOUR MAC! - IN-DEPTH look at Apple Time Machine and many ways to save and recover your files! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gonPZYShp9irfrM I hope that helps a little! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@despinaantoniou8077]

How would you transfer from google photos to iCloud or iPhone ?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Great question @despinaantoniou8077! I would use Google Takeout. takeout.google.com Google has an option where you can export any and all of your data to a different location. If you were just to do photos, there is an option to export and copy your photos from Google Photos to Apple iCloud Photos. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@Driven-t1u1r]

So I paid for iCloud to free up storage on devices for photos and videos but that was essentially useless. For pure storage to save space on devices, is the physical ssd the best solution then?

[@Kluivertnr1]

Indeed and that’s a pity. It should be possible to use icloud as a real storage service.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @jameschoi6098! So buying more iCloud Storage won't increase the size of your devices locally. Buying more cloud storage would never free up space on the actual devices UNLESS you turn on the correct settings for the appropriate things that are taking up space. Specifically talking about iCloud Photos, there is a settings on iPhone, iPads and Macs to "Optimize storage" for iCloud Photos. What this means is that it utilizes the extra storage you pay for in iCloud and stores everything there and the frees up space locally on your Apple Device. For me personally, I have just over 70,000 photos and videos in my iCloud Photos that accumulates to about 1TB of storage. However with this setting turned on within my Mac and iPhone, it's only taking up about 50GBs and I still have access to all my photos and videos! I have a whole video related to this that may be helpful. I'll link below for reference: Storage is FULL! - How to OPTIMIZE FILES and FIX your STORAGE PROBLEMS on Macs, iPhones and iPads kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJmqeGmdpK6BeK8 Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@Learnwithjoel]

I hear ya @Kluivertnr1, but cloud storage and local device storage are not the same and never will be. Cloud storage can expand and device storage often can not. Understanding the optimizing storage settings is key! Thank you for your continued support. Your appreciation is deeply valued! If this video has proven beneficial, I would be honored if you could share it on social media and express your gratitude for its assistance. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@allenschneider1847]

If you didn't have optimize turned on, and you choose to turn off and delete photos from icloud, would you already have a copy on your computer, or would you still have to download from icloud within 30 days?

[@hoopoe_]

I think in that case you would already have the photos in the original size on your device, so no need to download them.

[@Learnwithjoel]

@hoopoe_ is correct @allenschneider1847! If you have optimize already turned off, the originals would already be downloaded! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @hoopoe_! I appreciate you adding to the conversation! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@timrezarrat8084]

Can you delete them before they even downloaded

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @timrezarrat8084. Yes, you should be able to delete at anytime. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@Quince828]

It’s still not clear. Are the original photos saved in iCloud or on the device that took them in the first place? I like to keep my photos discrete from one device to another thus I don’t want them syncing to imac, iPhone, and iPad. But to save memory on my iPad I like to move the ones I want to keep to my iMac or an external drive. If I delete photos from iCloud or from one of my devices does that mean iCloud will go in to all devices and I will lose them everywhere? How can I protect my keepers from this happening?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Great questions @Quince828. So the thing with iCloud Photos and really iCloud in general is that it's a syncing service. It's designed to keep all of your devices on the same page. If you toggle iClout Photos or any other setting of iCloud on, it will sync that specific information to all other devices that have the same setting toggled on. So if you want your photos to be discrete on your iPhone and don't want them to go to your Mac, you need to either turn off iCloud Photos on either the Mac or your iPhone. There's really no wrong answer, but it does depend on your workflow. For example if you're worried about storage size on your iPhone, with iCloud Photos turned off, you would need to manually plug the iPhone into a computer to copy the photos/videos off to make room for more by deleting them from your iPhone after they're copied. If you were to keep iCloud Photos turned on within your iPhone, you could turn on an option to "Optimize iPhone Storage" for iCloud Photos. What this does is keep a high resolution original file in iCloud, but locally on the device it's a lower thumbnail version. So you can save a lot of space this way, but it does require internet and most likely more iCloud storage. This is what I do and it gives me the ability to have over 60,000 photos on my iPhone and it only takes up about 100GB or so. I hope that helps! Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@runfromdoctors]

2 questions, how are you shooting this video? How are you able to show these screens, the phone screens, the phone screen, the iPad screen in your video so we are able to see it? Also to what device is your external mic connected to? Thanks for your lovely video, I did subscribed and liked your video.🙏

[@SirMopy]

capture card connected or screen recording app with mac and screen recording with ipad and iphone…………..

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @runfromdoctors! So my only camera is a Canon r5 with a 28-70mm lens. My computers, iPhones, and iPads, I use the built in screen recording. On Mac, it's QuickTime and on iPhones and iPads you can find the option to add screen recording within the Control Settings. My audio is captured using an AKG Perception 220 Condenser Mic that feeds into a Zoom F3 recorder which then plugs directly into my Mac. AKG Perception 220 Condenser Mic amzn.to/3TONZzz Zoom F3 Field Recorder amzn.to/49fz8CN I edit in Final Cut Pro and I bring all of the video into a project and overlay them to help visualize the concept of what I'm trying to teach a little better. I hope that helps! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@Learnwithjoel]

Pretty much @SirMopy. My camera is a Canon r5 with a 28-70mm lens. My computers, iPhones, and iPads, I use the built in screen recording. On Mac, it's QuickTime and on iPhones and iPads you can find the option to add screen recording within the Control Settings. My audio is captured using an AKG Perception 220 Condenser Mic that feeds into a Zoom F3 recorder which then plugs directly into my Mac. AKG Perception 220 Condenser Mic amzn.to/3TONZzz Zoom F3 Field Recorder amzn.to/49fz8CN I edit in Final Cut Pro and I bring all of the video into a project and overlay them to help visualize the concept of what I'm trying to teach a little better. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@Kit2Canada]

Have a weird synching issue. You know how jpgs and raw combine in Photos (of the same photo) - well if i export both to the desktop and delete the raw and then import the jpg - the raw shows up. What do I need to do to stop this?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @Kit2Canada! This sounds like the symptoms of when you have the setting on your Camera to shoot both JPEG and RAW at the same time. When this setting on your camera is turned on, essentially every photo you take is actually producing two files. One JPEG and one RAW file. When you import that into Apple Photos, it know this. Do you have the option for "Use RAW as original" turned on with Apple Photos Image Menu? Apple Support article linked right below for reference: Use a RAW file as the original in Photos on Mac support.apple.com/guide/photos/a-raw-file-original-photos-mac-phtbb0eb4eb1/9.0/mac/14.1.1 I hope that helps! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@Kit2Canada]

@@Learnwithjoel Good info! However, I'd like to delete some of the raw files as they occupy many MBs and I don't need the raws as I have jpgs for reference. So, I've tried exporting both (raw& jpg) to my desktop. I then deleted the image (jpg and raw) from Apple Photos (and its own backup history/trash) and deleted the raw from my desktop. I've re-imported the jpg only and "VOLA" the matching raw "magically" appears in Photos -- even though it's been deleted from "everything" - iCloud and my Mac. Your thoughts?

[@bella-bee]

Funny how ghosts appear like this. I have inherited my mother’s iPad Air, and done a reset and installed my own Apple ID on it, and every now and again I get an app, like BBC Sounds (I’m in UK) asking for her password, asking for her by name! Something in the app remembers the iPad was used by someone else I suppose. It’s a shocking thing during the grieving process. And it’s an insecure thing if the new owner wasn’t supposed to know the previous owner’s name, for instance.

[@KarenKefauver]

Yes Apple Photos drives me nuts. What is the next best option - even paid = for storage/editing - Lightroom? Your videos are awesome.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @KarenKefauver, So alternatives for storage and editing could be two completely different things. What is your biggest concern for Apple Photos driving you nuts? As far as editing software, the location of the files in theory doesn't really matter. You could use Lightroom, Luminar, Capture One, Photoshop, Pixelmator, etc. The list goes on and one. Also not all software is created equal or has the same learning curve. Are you looking to just improve the photos and edit to them to look more natural with colors and such, or are we talking about manipulation where you want to completely remove something from the photo or add elements to a photo? As far as storage/organization, do you use Apple Photos now? Did you want to use the Finder instead? I guess it really comes down to what you want it to do. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.

[@KarenKefauver]

@@Learnwithjoel Thank you for your thoughtful and thorough reply. I guess I just don't know enough about Photos - like when 1. When Duplicates are identified in the library- supposedly "merging" non exact copies does not reduce image quality - somehow doubt that. I know the metadata is combined and that's fine. I know Apple says it doesn't diminish quality but still. I also have a lot of trouble downloading the files as unmodified. I also wish I could filter images by dimensions or megs. My project is trying to review and consolidate 40K photos on two computers and pick out 12 winning images for photo calendar. Oh my!

[@lgrundy6139]

so once we have 30 days, can we download them from the cloud to an external storage? These won't fit on any device

[@georgee3401]

Very informative video. Many thanks!

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @georgee3401! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@sandelewis2706]

I have over 5,000 pictures on my Android phone some of them are sensitive as I've been researching a disease is there any easy way that I could get Google to just recognize the picture, group them into one file and push them over to that one side the my

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @sandelewis2706, Do you have an iPhone? Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been helped you, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.

[@sklee1644]

Wow, you are very details. But I am now very confused. I have three iCloud accounts because I do not like them to sync.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @sklee1644! I guess that's one way to avoid syncing, but I don't think that's the intent Apple had of how to use iCloud. It's designed to make all of your devices sync the same information and all be on the same page. This gives the users the ability to pickup any Apple device they own and have access to all of their stuff when and wherever they'd like. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@nicegurl408]

Every device, every time, I get the icloud full. So now im paying $3 a month. I got this phone to use primary as a camera, and downloading photos from phone to computer has been a nightmare! I just spent 4 days downloading photos from phone to computer, only to discover 16,000 images on my older phone! I guess four more days of transferring photos and I'm done with icloud. I just want to phone to act as the camera and sd card and easily transfer to a hard drive.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @nicegurl408! So keep in mind, just because iCloud may say it's full, doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to take photos or videos with your camera. Unless your physical storage is almost full on your iPhone and then in that case, you will need to transfer the photos of to another device (computer or external hard drive) to free up space. Keep in mind that when using iCloud Photos for Syncing, it will take a while, especially for 16,000 files! It will pause periodically and depending on your wifi/data speeds, it will for sure take time. I do have a video that shows multiple different ways of how to transfer your photos off your iPhone without using iCloud. I will link below for reference and hopefully that will help. How to TRANSFER PHOTOS from an iPhone or iPad to a Mac or Windows Computer kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIOnnqJsrauYsJY THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@runforrestrun1965]

I want to have all my photos on my Mac. How do I get all my iCloud Photos downloaded onto my Mac? In a format of individual photos. I seem to have one large file.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @runforrestrun1965! So if you have a Mac and are using iCloud Photos, all you need to do is make sure that iCloud Photos is turned on within System Settings as well as Apple Photos. As far as one large file vs individual photos, I wonder if you're looking at the Library of Apple Photos. It is important to understand how Apple iCloud Photo Libraries work on the Mac and what Apple does to help manage the photos locally. I have many videos that talk about Apple iCloud Photos on the Mac and how it intertwines with iCloud and other devices that I will link below for reference: iCloud Apple Photo Library VS Referenced Apple Photo Library - the DIFFERENCE & WHY it MATTERS! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqvGn6F6asuapdk How to MOVE your iCLOUD PHOTO LIBRARIES and APPLE PHOTO LIBRARIES to an EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXLVnICojsqbiJo (Slightly older video, but still relevant) Understanding iCLOUD PHOTOS - Syncing iPhones, iPads, and Apple Computers IN-DEPTH kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2q8m5eYnZaEbpo EXPORTING your Apple Photo files on your MAC - EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5qsmnmbhciFr5Y I hope that helps! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@brianchandler8727]

Can you move the photos to a SD before you shut off and delete

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @brianchandler8727! Yes you can always download and save photos from the devices to an external source. It just depends on what device you're downloading and saving from. There could be multiple ways to do this depending on what devices you have. I'll link a couple videos below that talk about saving and backing up photos to different locations. How to TRANSFER PHOTOS from an iPhone or iPad to a Mac or Windows Computer kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIOnnqJsrauYsJY How to BACKUP iCLOUD PHOTOS! Options for your Mac, iPhone and iPad! Cloud or No Cloud! kzbin.info/www/bejne/poi9i5-PiptlqtU I hope that helps! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@stepkycopky9354]

Joel, these vids are GREAT….. Thank you…

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @stepkycopky9354! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@eileendupreez4268]

Help, I need to keep my documents on my iMac. Not my Mac book or my iPad or phone. How. ??

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @eileendupreez4268, iCloud Drive has an option to sync your Desktop and Documents folder. If this option is turned on, any files there will sync to iCloud. If that option is off then all files will only be locally stored on your Mac. Aside from your Desktop and Documents folder, any other location on your Mac would only store the files on that Mac and it would not sync anywhere else. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been helped you, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.

[@mr_red13]

Why does my settings look different than yours? I'm on the latest software update and I have an iPhone 13 PM.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Good question @mr_red13! Which part of the settings looks different? Within iCloud settings on the iPhone? THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@keithmeredith7522]

Instead of transferring the photos to google photos, can you transfer them to an external ssd?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @keithmeredith7522! Transferring Apple Photos to an external drive is possible. What devices do you have? Do you have a Mac? If you do have a Mac, I'll link a video below that takes about moving an Apple Photo library to an external hard drive How to MOVE your iCLOUD PHOTO LIBRARIES and APPLE PHOTO LIBRARIES to an EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXLVnICojsqbiJo THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@keithmeredith7522]

Yes, a Mac mini and MBP both M1

[@stevenloomans3822]

I have gone into the photo settings on my MacBook and turned on download originals to this Mac, and nothing happens. It does not say downloading photos like yours did. I only have 9,000 photos on my Mac, but there are 11,000 in iCloud. Any ideas?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @stevenloomans3822! So iCloud Photos will often pause syncing after a few hours when syncing that amount of photos, so don't be alarmed if it syncing was just turned on and it's not the same yet. Keep Apple Photos open on your Mac and if it weren't syncing after a week or so, then I would start to troubleshoot. But be patient and it will eventually catch up. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been helped you, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.

[@ginabray2574]

I can’t see where I ever synced Apple premier one and now it’s up to $42. I like the magazines I’m not quite sure if the arcade is for PlayStation due to my 3 men 2/iPhones 1/android One is actually ultra Samsung 22 model I believe. but because the account is in my name, I put their individual names on their phones. Does that mean they’re using my 2 TB of space?

[@ginabray2574]

You appear to have a PC a smaller iPad another iPad and an iPhone. I saw the microphone come on twice you said it shouldn’t show either you have four devices or I really have lost my mind and this is not a good thing for me.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Apple One subscription can get pretty pricy @ginabray2574! I'm guessing that if you see the names on the account, you may have family sharing turned on and if that's the case it would be their Apple ID Account that you would see usually, which would then mean that they could be using your storage, but honestly without looking at the settings, I'm not sure. Check out these Apple support articles related to Family Sharing: Share iCloud+ with your family support.apple.com/en-us/108783 Set up Family Sharing support.apple.com/en-us/108380 Thank you for your continued support. Your appreciation is deeply valued! If this video has proven beneficial, I would be honored if you could share it on social media and express your gratitude for its assistance. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @ginabray2574! Thank you for your continued support. Your appreciation is deeply valued! If this video has proven beneficial, I would be honored if you could share it on social media and express your gratitude for its assistance. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@LorenzoArabia]

Hey Joel, please give me your help, I deleted my photo library from iCloud and I need to get it back, I asked Apple support but they are wasting time until the end of the 30 days. Please help me, the problem is very interesting since they told me that icloud works badly and gives very rare errors..

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @LorenzoArabia, So when you say "deleted", what do you mean by that? How did you delete it? Did you manually select all the photos and move them to the trash can and then empty it? If you did this, you may not have much luck removing unless you have a local backup copy of the photos/files. Did you just toggle off iCloud Photos within the settings? If you did this, you should be able to toggle iCloud Photos back on. If it's within 30 days, it should recover and undo what you did. The million dollar question is what and how you did to "delete" the photo library. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@LorenzoArabia]

@@Learnwithjoel

[@LorenzoArabia]

Thank You Joel for answering me! So I opened iCloud from web, deleted all pics and videos , i went to ''recently deleted'' and deleted all to free up my cloud space. After that I realized that the copy of my library I had on my local storage was not complete I called apple after only one day to have my stuffs back but they said that in my iCloud they saw errors maybe for the huge amount of data. So now they are ignoring me and they are letting 30 days pass. I lost all my pics, I'm not albe to recreate a complete library like the previous cause the photos app is not working well so I ask to Joel :). For now I can add that I have part of my pics in different locations, other photo libraries, google photo, iCloud, and some old iPhones backup, it would be great to recreate the big library importing all these files in the same library but I lost chronological order...

[@sunshinegypsea]

Does the same process work for transferring iCloud Photos to Amazon photos? I just want my photos sent to Amazon not iCloud ! Help lol I’ve got over 16k photos 150 gb of storage it says it’s taking up! 😩🥴

[@17eminem33]

Very lucid video… subscribed!

[@Learnwithjoel]

Thank you for your continued support@17eminem33! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!

[@maryjacques3244]

Thank you Joel, another great video! Is there an easy way to get photos from Google to Apple? A few years ago when I didn’t understand photos & was about to lose them, I turned on Google photos, hoping that would save them if my phone crashed. It worked! But now I understand iCloud, optimization, & pay for storage, so my Apple photos are in a better place. BUT now I am frequently getting messages that my Gmail is full. I finally realized it’s not actually from emails, but from Google photos (I didn’t realize all Google platforms shared storage). So now I’d like to get my photos out of Google. I have been dragging my feet because I know there will be duplicates I don’t want to bring over, but am excited that it did preserve those 6 special months of photos I thought I lost. When I saw this at the end of your video, I wondered if there might be a simple reverse as well to get photos out of Google & back in to Photos?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @maryjacques3244, Sounds like you've been learning a lot! Google does have an option to migrate/copy photos from Google Photos to iCloud Photos. You need to use their "Google Takeout" Feature. Visit: takeout.google.com This website gives you the ability to manage any and all of your information in Google. Here you would choose photos and you can authenticate with an Apple ID and migrate the photos. This question has been brought up a lot recently, so I think I need to add this to my list in the near future for upcoming videos! Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

Sos el uno! Tus explicaciones son realmente buenas. Saludos desde Argentina. Is it possible to migrate from google photos to icloud library?

[@Learnwithjoel]

I appreciate you and your kind words @PianoparquepaAndrésFerrari! Yes you can migrate from Google Photos to iCloud Photos using Google's feature called "Google Takeout" Visit the following URL: takeout.google.com Thank you for your continued support. Your appreciation is deeply valued! If this video has proven beneficial, I would be honored if you could share it on social media and express your gratitude for its assistance. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@Bellistrif]

One question. If I do this, and DELETE photos from iCloud but keep the on my Mac, what happens to those photos if I decide to synchronize in the future with iCloud Photos? Will those photos then be deleted from my Mac?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @Bellistrif, If you turned off syncing for iCloud Photos on a device, deleted some photos and added new ones...if this same device was later turned on for syncing, it would update the other devices to match it. So it could add and deleted photos from your other devices like your Mac. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@despinaantoniou8077]

So…. Am new with apple!!!! Your video really really helped me out as I was so confused and messed up my photos when transitioning from my android device. Question : what happens within those 30days?if I take some new photos and or videos using my iPhone (I also have an iPad) will they get deleted as well?or does it delete up until that moment ? And then if we sync again only the new ones will be on the cloud?

[@Learnwithjoel]

I appreciate you and your kind words @despinaantoniou8077! If you turn of the syncing on one device, it won't add or delete new photos to any other device. The 30 days just means that on the device you turned syncing off, it will attempt to download everything in iCloud to that device. If there is not enough space locally, the photos/videos will be removed. This is because iCloud stores all of the high quality original files in the cloud but has the ability to optimize the storage on your iPhone/iPad so you can see all files on the mobile devices without taking up all the space. I have another video on that topic that may help a little more that I'll link below for reference: FREE UP SPACE on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac - The BEST WAY to OPTIMIZE iPhone & iPad Storage kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHjQf2B5YpuKbaM Storage is FULL! - How to OPTIMIZE FILES and FIX your STORAGE PROBLEMS on Macs, iPhones and iPads kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJmqeGmdpK6BeK8 Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@michaela6982]

Great info👍🏼🤗

[@Learnwithjoel]

THANK YOU so much for watching @michaela6982! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@salaiello3679]

Thank you keep up the good work

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @salaiello3679! Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@danield_sounds]

When a company needs a third part 30 min video just to explain how to delete photos, way to go Apple !

[@Learnwithjoel]

It can be quite confusing @danield_sounds for some users. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@dopagony9946]

great video explanation

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @dopagony9946! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@conchmk]

Wow, lots of good stuff here!!!

[@Learnwithjoel]

I'm glad you think so @conchmk! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@fred7flinstone]

I just wish there was a way to select what is synced to iCloud and what is not. For example, we should be able to set, within photos on iMac, to sync only photos for the last twelve months. That we could have an archive of old photo but with recent files synced.

[@Learnwithjoel]

I totally agree @fred7flinstone! They use to have this feature! It was called "Photo Stream". Then Apple got rid of it and went to all or nothing syncing! The only other workaround would be to have some photos not imported into the actual Apple Photo library and then the photos would be referenced and not sync to iCloud Photos, but they would still show up only in Apple Photos app on the Mac. This method would require a lot more organization and thought behind how things are organized! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@kerrysmith8411]

Is it possible to delete photos from iPhone and iPad but remain on iCloud ?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Only if those iPhones and iPads do not have iCloud Photos turned on for syncing @kerrysmith8411! And if they do have syncing turned on, it will delete them. Also keep in mind that if syncing is turned off, if it got turned back on, there would be a chance a losing photos if they were previously deleted. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@PLANETWATERMELON]

I don't understand why my iCloud Photos are still showing on my iPad. I have iCloud Photos turned off and yet they still show up. I want to clear all photos from my iPad. I only want photos for my work on my iPad. I have "sync this iPad" throned off and photos from iCloud still show up on iPad.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @PLANETWATERMELON! Where is the photo coming from that is still showing up your iPad? Is it from an iPhone, from a computer? Toggling off the option for iCloud Photos prevents new photos to sync to it, but it doesn't necessarily make all the current photos disappear. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@PLANETWATERMELON]

You nailed it 1000%. I had to go in and delete all the photos on my iPad and now it is all good. I have an odd setup of taking photos on an Android phone, but I need to edit them on an iPad so I have google photos synced to Apple Photos on an my iPad. Anyway.....all good now. Thank you so much!@@Learnwithjoel

[@karenelizabeth8404]

Hi, Thanks for a great video. Question- after photos are migrated/ copied to google photos, can they then be deleted from the devices but still remain in iCloud? Thx!

[@schadlarry]

I wish Apple kept Photo Stream because I only want ALL my photos on my iMac and not the iPhone I take them with. That way the photos were automatically transferred to the iMac and a Time Machine backup that day. Now I have to manually transfer photos from the phone to the Mac. Bad Apple.

[@Learnwithjoel]

I agree 100% @schadlarry! That was a nice feature that Apple got rid of! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@debbieb6940]

Can anyone help me with the following issue? Unfortunately Apple support couldn't seem to answer it. I have photos & links that I've sent via text message. When i select & delete them they just reappear. I've tried turning off backups on both iPhone & iPad; didn't fix it. Tried turning off iCloud backup for photos; didn't fix it. Tried doing both at same time; didn't work. What's weird is the photos sent via text which are attached to the contact that I sent them to don't show up in my photos app or iCloud Photos. I really want to get rid of these & cannot figure out why they keep reappearing. The recipient of the texted photos says there's no avail option on their end to delete them. Anyone know how to fix this?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @debbieb6940, So let me see if I understand. So let's say you send me a text message of a photo you took and you also sent me a link from safari. So are you saying that when you delete that photo from the text message conversation and you delete the link within that same text message conversation that it shows back up in the same place? What are your steps for deleting the photo and link from the text conversation? I don't think iCloud Backup, or iCloud Photos has anything to do with this. I also don't think the person receiving these photos or links would make them re-appear unless they literally sent you the same photo and link back, which would mean that it would look different anyways. I look forward to hearing back! Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.

[@RebeccaWentzel]

Can't understand 1:39

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @RebeccaWentzel, What are you trying to do that you don't understand? Maybe I can help clarify. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@judgetoogood1033]

Thank you

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @judgetoogood1033! Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@rubechenique]

I just need to delete dome photo not all

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @rubechenique, If I understand correctly, you're just looking to delete a single photo and not all of them? You should be able to find the little trash can to delete on iPhone and if you're on a Mac, just select the photo and press the delete key. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.

[@rubechenique]

@@Learnwithjoel but I dont have the photos on my phone they are in the cloud

[@paulwoaert]

My situation is this: I only have one Apple ID and unique and I take photos and videos only with my iPhone. So if I disable the synchronization iCloud in my MacBook Air (256g) settings, iPhone photos and videos (synchronized in iCloud) will stop being exported to my Macbook? I did something a few months ago: I moved the photo library of my MacBook to my external 2T ssd (following the instructions in the video whose title is "How to Move Your Apple Photos Library to an External Drive»). Obviously, when I connect this external ssd to the MacBook, synchronization with the iPhone still takes place, except that these photos and videos are now in my external ssd and no longer in my Macbook, which therefore protects the storage space on the Mac's hard drive. The only drawback with this moving of the Photo Library of Macbook to external ssd is that when my external ssd is not connected to the Mac (which often happens because any device connected to a usb-c port -- active or not -- consumes the Macbook's battery), it deprives me of being able to watch or use these photos and videos. I have an important question: extracting videos and photos from the Photo Library to an external ssd(but WITHOUT the Photo Library) seems impossible. This explains why I chose to move the Photo Library itself. The other solution, I guess, would be to send by Air Drop the photos and videos of the iPhone to one of the folders of the Mac or the external ssd connected to the Mac (?). Last thing : you say that the photos and videos hosted by iCloud are not in the resolution or quality originally produced in the iPhone. So if I send, for example, by email, from my Macbook, a photo from its photo library (obtained by iCloud synchronization with the iPhone), it will not be the original optimal quality? But then how can we have the original resolution video in the Mac ?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @paulwoaert! You're in the same position as many of us who run into the storage issues and an ever growing photo/video library. Moving the library to an external SSD can be great, but it can also be a pain to always have to plug it in when you need something. Having a Mac with an internal SSD that's only 256GB can be a bottleneck for sure. Especially if it's a model where you can't upgrade the internal storage. My best advice for you would be to actually put the Apple Photo library back to your Mac and turn on the the Photo setting to "Optimize Mac Storage". This settings can be found within the Apple Photo Settings: Apple Photo > Settings > iCloud > Optimize Mac Storage If you haven't figured this out already, I have a whole video dedicated to this that I'll link below for reference: Storage is FULL! - How to OPTIMIZE FILES and FIX your STORAGE PROBLEMS on Macs, iPhones and iPads kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJmqeGmdpK6BeK8 I personally have just over 70,000 photos/videos in my iCloud Photo library which is about 1TB of storage, however with this setting turned on within my Mac it's only taking up about 45GB worth of space! It really is a nice option! Now granted, if you're not connected to internet, it won't load content that isn't already downloaded, but for the most part, it is one of the best features of iCloud Photos. Let's say you wanted to try this, you don't even have to move the library from the external SSD back to your Mac. You just need to create a new Photo library on your Mac and then go into the settings of Apple Photos and make it the "System Library" in addition to turning on iCloud Photos and also selecting the option for Optimize Mac Storage. This method will essentially create a brand new photo library on your Mac and download everything that you have from iCloud Photos. Albums, edits, literally everything! I hope that helps! Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@asierfilms]

thanks!

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @asierfilms! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@philipbutler6608]

I have had the misfortune of having updates change my ICloud setting and have to spend hours on the phone with Apple undoing what happened. Of course they act like I did something when I didn’t. I have never synced my devices. I have stuff in my IPad I don’t want on my phone. The only thing I sync is calendar, email and contacts.

[@Learnwithjoel]

I hear ya @philipbutler6608, it can be frustrating sometimes. You do have the ability to turn off syncing for specific content or not use iCloud at all. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@philipbutler6608]

@@Learnwithjoel I do have the iCloud restricted but that doesn’t stops IPhone updates from occasionally turning it on. I have spent hours getting my photos removed from ICloud. I store my backups on storage drives.

[@charlottekelly6755]

I have to pay for Google Mail just to keep it operating how do I know I won’t have to start paying for Google Photos once there are photos in it just like I have to pay for storage in iCloud… I just ended up buying 200 GB of space in iCloud to compensate for my not being able to keep up with the video and just be comfortable that I have enough storage space to back up all myphotos and documents

[@Learnwithjoel]

That's a perfect example that not many people realize @charlottekelly6755! Google gives you 15GB of free storage. iCloud gives you 5GB. Even with Google, it can fill up past that 15GB with photos, emails, documents, etc. When that happens, your email will stop working. Your photos will not sync. So they get you to buy more storage to accommodate all of your files. No different than iCloud. The solution is to either delete and manage your files not in their cloud, or you pay for storage for the convenience of having your files sync. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@penguinshoes6256]

what is iCloud?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Great question @penguinshoes6256, Check out this video below: iCloud - What the Purpose is & How is it supposed to work! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qonUXqODi5ljm68 That should help clarify the purpose of iCloud and the basics of how to use it. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@floridastreethockey]

So for 30 days, I won’t have access to iCloud………. Only until the photos are deleted after 30 days, will I be able to start a new iCloud with new photos…

[@Learnwithjoel]

Why wouldn't you have access to iCloud for 30 days @floridastreethockey? You can go and manually delete everything if you wanted. The 30 days is a safety net for users who may accidentally delete photos and want to recover them. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@charlottekelly6755]

If you do make another video, I’m asking you please slow down between where you go from go from place to place to place… I can’t follow that fast and I don’t know anyone who could unless they’re a wizard with computers… You seem like you have an awful lot of knowledge and I want to hear what you have to say and I want to follow along but I don’t want to have to stop it and rewind it 10 seconds just to be able to keep up with you… Thank you. I appreciate you taking this gracious criticism graciously, Charlotte Kelly, Washington state

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @charlottekelly6755! I appreciate the feedback and kind words. I would highly recommend that you take advantage of the playback speed feature on KZbin. When a video is playing, look for a gear and choose Playback Speed. Here you can slow any video down. It works really well! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@MaiElizabeth]

You’ve been in Israel recently? I really wish everything will be back to its normal and peace will be achieved.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @MaiElizabeth! Not recently. If there were photos from there in this video, that was a couple years old. I would go back in a heartbeat though! Loved every minute of it! We do have family living there currently and the love it! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@mikey4406]

Usful Infor

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're welcome @mikey4406! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!

[@vasterbottning]

My stupid question is. Is Google Photos the same as iCloud? what is the difference?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Never a stupid question @vasterbottning! Google Photos would be similar to iCloud Photos. They're just two big tech companies that offer products that pretty much do the same thing. Related to photos for both Google and iCloud, I have a video that does a comparison of these that I'll link below for reference: iCloud vs Google vs Microsoft - PHOTO CLOUD COMPARISON - How your PHOTOS interact in "THE CLOUD" kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3epZ4mtpZZlnrM Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@eugeniebreida]

WAY too many words. I just want to turn off iCloud * storage of Photos for my iPad, that’s itl. WHAT IS THE SHORT ANSWER?? Anyone? It can’t take so long to explain just this.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Sure @eugeniebreida1583. Follow the steps below to turn off iCloud storage for photos on iPad. Navigate to: Settings > Apple ID > iCloud > Photos Toggle the switch the option "off" for Sync this iPad. That's it. Hope that helps. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@fscott1134]

TOO MANY WORDS! This is important and I have been trying to figure it out for years. You did not help. My suggestion; divide this video into sections. 1 if you want to save photos to I cloud but NOT keep them on your phone to free up space, do this a,b,c… 2. If you want to see everything everywhere at all times do this a,b, c. 3. If you want to minimize use of I cloud to only the most important things to you, do this a,b,c….

[@elizabritton4039]

Yes, this is what I’m looking for

[@Learnwithjoel]

I appreciate your feedback @fscott1134. I guess the goal was have a one stop shop to many questions instead of multiple videos. I would also recommend to view and use the chapter markers within the description of KZbin videos. It can be extremely helpful to navigate to a specific topic of a video. Using the Playback speed option is nice too so you can speed up or slow down someone talking. Below are the chapter markers for this video for reference: 01:46 | How to verify that you're using the Same Apple ID on all devices 02:43 | How to verify if iCloud Photos is turned ON within all devices 03:08 | Examples of how iCloud Photos is designed to work 05:03 | Example of deleting a photo and it syncing 07:20 | How to exclude a device from syncing iCloud Photos 08:27 | Understanding Optimize Settings on iPad Photo Storage 12:35 | How to choose what data to sync or not to sync from iCloud 14:23 | Turning back on a device to sync iCloud Photos 15:46 | The Correct way to DELETE all iCloud Photos 21:09 | How to transfer iCloud Photos to Google Photos Was there a specific goal you were trying to accomplish? THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@Learnwithjoel]

I appreciate your feedback @elizabritton4039! I guess the goal was have a one stop shop to many questions instead of multiple videos. I would also recommend to view and use the chapter markers within the description of KZbin videos. It can be extremely helpful to navigate to a specific topic of a video. Using the Playback speed option is nice too so you can speed up or slow down someone talking. Below are the chapter markers for this video for reference: 01:46 | How to verify that you're using the Same Apple ID on all devices 02:43 | How to verify if iCloud Photos is turned ON within all devices 03:08 | Examples of how iCloud Photos is designed to work 05:03 | Example of deleting a photo and it syncing 07:20 | How to exclude a device from syncing iCloud Photos 08:27 | Understanding Optimize Settings on iPad Photo Storage 12:35 | How to choose what data to sync or not to sync from iCloud 14:23 | Turning back on a device to sync iCloud Photos 15:46 | The Correct way to DELETE all iCloud Photos 21:09 | How to transfer iCloud Photos to Google Photos Was there a specific goal you were trying to accomplish? THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@user-22-]

*Everything* you mentioned here is why I live in a *CLOUD-FREE WORLD!* What a P.I.T.A.!

[@Learnwithjoel]

LOL @user-22- ! I hear ya...it can be a pain in the ass....not like it was 20 years ago! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@Yadazay]

what if your transfer from apple to google has the same photos.. Will it copy them or will i have a bounch of doubles after the transfer.... if their is already a copy in google? i need professional help at this point with the pics ive had so many issues trying to get all my pics into one place its so hard, my whole life is falling apart at this point and its all because of this pic and video stuff. I dont know how to save my pics and my phone added 12,000 pics to it trying to sync the pics that were already on the phone i cant breath half the time i have no clue what i did but if you need new content i can help you with topics that really will screw up your life if you dont know this... cuz im f ed

[@johnurban7333]

Always had iCloud turned off and did an update on my iPad and before I knew it Apple decided to turn sync on and I didn’t know it. Now I’m deleting photos off of iCloud. Always hated Apple’s control over everything but iPad is better than other tablets. I refuse to get their phone. Love android phones

[@Learnwithjoel]

I hear ya @johnurban7333! I think they encourage to turn it on by default sometimes. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been helped you, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.

[@Treychik]

I just wanted to remove the freaking annoying icon from my drives in Windows...why Google gives me MAC first of all and 28 minutes....useless

[@smartmammal9926]

Issue is, the photos stay on iCloud for 30 days so you cannot turn syncing back on for 30 days. That is NOT good.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @smartmammal9926, That's not true, you can turn syncing back on before 30 days. The 30 days is just letting you know that the device that you turned that off will remove the photos/videos from that device if they not have downloaded completely. The content still lives in iCloud and if you turned syncing on again, it would just re-download content. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@g000se99]

28 minutes tho :(

[@Learnwithjoel]

Thank goodness for playback speed and chapter markers @g000se99! Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@lgrundy6139]

why did I ever start using the cloud, it is useless. Who would want to store thousands of pics without the ability to organize them and leave them that way

[@smartmammal9926]

You can only delete from the web page, 1000 images at a time. And, deleting WILL fail as it will spin and spin and never delete.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @smartmammal9926, Do you not have a Mac and this is why you're attempting to delete from the web browser? The most ideal thing to do is if you wanted to delete all iCloud Photos would be do disable and delete iCloud Photos from an Apple Device. This will literally delete everything for you, not just turn syncing off. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@philipbutler6608]

I hate ICloud

[@Learnwithjoel]

It's not for everyone @philipbutler6608 Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@vedista]

Am i the only one heariing icod instead of icloud?

[@OfficialOD_]

Easy fix from apple they should allow which original pictures you choose to save on iPhone. This would allow you to save storage space bc you would still keep all photos on iCloud. APPLE FIX THIS !!!

[@Learnwithjoel]

I 100% agree @OfficialOD_! It would really be nice to not have an all or nothing approach for photo syncing. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@zappsoimilk]

yeah this is why i ahte iphone everything so incovinient to use wheares samsung galaxy phone doesnt have this complicated stupid system and all the photos and videos are saved in without limiting you like garbage iphone

[@Learnwithjoel]

That's cool @zappsoimilk, where does the Samsung Galaxy store all of the photos and videos? Just locally on the device? Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Apologies for the delayed response! With the overwhelming number of comments, questions, and support, I’m genuinely trying my best to address each and every one of you!

[@vrotberu4i]

28 minutes to show me how to delete pictures from icloud? are you serious?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Hi @vrotberu4i! It's not just about deleting photos from iCloud, it's about understanding the sync settings and how it affects other devices. Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.

[@ketijugeli9095]

Hello I have a question about something that is happening to my phone ! I have the iCloud subscription but I want to close it Why are 27.7KB of iCloud storage being used even though Photos and all other services are turned off? Do you by any chance know about it cause I’m getting frustrated about it and I don’t know what to do!! By the way very helpful your video!!🥹