What do you think of icloud drive for photots

[2008bangkok]

So there was me looking forward to icloud drive so i could put all my photos i store on picasweb to apple, but hence as always there arse about face fo doing it means you cannot add to the windows/mac client and see on ipad/iphone or you cannot add to ipad/iphone and see on icould drive.

So basically its just the same as photo stream but you can store all your photos you take rather than the last 500 limitation and at full resolution.

Why do apple have such great ideas but poor implementation of them.

Just like the send/recieve normal messages on imac or ipad but then of course you have to delete that message in 3 different places!!

[bubba]

Not sure I fully understand your question. Are you trying to sync your photos in iPhotos with all your devices? If so, see:

Your new photos appear automatically on the iOS devices, computers, and Apple TV you set up with My Photo Stream, no matter which iOS device or computer you use to take or import new photos.

You can also share an iCloud photo library with anyone, including those who may not have Apple devices:

With iCloud Photo Sharing, you can share photos and videos with just the people you choose, and you can let them add their own photos, videos, and comments. Friends and family can subscribe to your shared albums to view them on all of their devices, leave comments, and get notified automatically when you add new photos and videos.

Edited November 10, 2014 by bubba

[bubba]

Also:

Just like the send/recieve normal messages on imac or ipad but then of course you have to delete that message in 3 different places!!

Do you mean text messages or email messages?

[2008bangkok]

Not sure I fully understand your question. Are you trying to sync your photos in iPhotos with all your devices? If so, see:

Your new photos appear automatically on the iOS devices, computers, and Apple TV you set up with My Photo Stream, no matter which iOS device or computer you use to take or import new photos.

You can also share an iCloud photo library with anyone, including those who may not have Apple devices:

With iCloud Photo Sharing, you can share photos and videos with just the people you choose, and you can let them add their own photos, videos, and comments. Friends and family can subscribe to your shared albums to view them on all of their devices, leave comments, and get notified automatically when you add new photos and videos.

What I would of liked to do is to put imaged in iCloud drive through finder on the Mac or Explorer on Windows and have them shown on the iPad or iPhone.

Just as when i receive a text message through message forwarding on my iPad and Mac I would like to delete them from any device and have the delete from all devices.

[bubba]

OK, understood. Apple's iCloud doesn't sync images like that, but you can still sync between iOS, OS X, and Windows devices:

http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht4236

If you are looking for cloud syncing using a simple "drive", you could use Dropbox. Just create folders, and they will all sync on all the devices where you have Dropbox using the same account. Or, you can share selected folders with others, and they get synced as well when you add or delete a photo.

As for Messages - no, text messages do not sync between devices when you delete them. Sent and received messages sync, but not deleted ones. That is frustrating to me as well, and it would seem easy enough to for Apple to make that work through iCloud. Just about everything else gets synced - even bookmarks and browsing history if you want, but not text messages.

[2008bangkok]

OK, understood. Apple's iCloud doesn't sync images like that, but you can still sync between iOS, OS X, and Windows devices:

http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht4236

If you are looking for cloud syncing using a simple "drive", you could use Dropbox. Just create folders, and they will all sync on all the devices where you have Dropbox using the same account. Or, you can share selected folders with others, and they get synced as well when you add or delete a photo.

As for Messages - no, text messages do not sync between devices when you delete them. Sent and received messages sync, but not deleted ones. That is frustrating to me as well, and it would seem easy enough to for Apple to make that work through iCloud. Just about everything else gets synced - even bookmarks and browsing history if you want, but not text messages.

I actually use google picasaweb upload them via picasa for pc them use a app called best album to view them on all devices it ven caches all the photos at a smaller resolution ad it works well.

Its just frustraing apple implimentaion of cloud drive when it comes to photos

[rijb]

I think it's slow and clunky. I prefer dropbox.

[2008bangkok]

I think it's slow and clunky. I prefer dropbox.

Last time i used dropbox to upload photos it renamed all o the images, not sure if it still does the same

[2008bangkok]

I think it's slow and clunky. I prefer dropbox.

Last time i used dropbox to upload photos it renamed all o the images, not sure if it still does the same

[Whale]

This whole version of "icloud" is so disappointing to me so far. I have stuck with dropbox as just cant get my head around the "icloud" philosophy - its almost as if it tied to something we have not seen yet.