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#HOW TO GET PICTURES FROM ICLOUD ON MAC TO IPHONE FOR FREE#
#HOW TO GET PICTURES FROM ICLOUD ON MAC TO IPHONE MAC#

#HOW TO GET PICTURES FROM ICLOUD ON MAC TO IPHONE MAC#

You can choose that all your photos are downloaded to your Mac, which will mean that full-sized versions are stored on your Mac and in iCloud, but we choose the Optimise Mac Storage option, which means that smaller versions of the photos are stored on our Mac while the full-sized original is stored in iCloud.

You might be thinking that if all your photos were automatically added to the library on your Mac they would quickly fill your Macs storage up. It means that when you get home from your holiday and start up your Mac all the photos you took will be in Photos on your Mac. In fact you can even access that photo at on a PC. This means that when you take a photo on your iPhone that photo will be uploaded to iCloud and you will be able to view it, and edit it, on any of your Apple devices. Keeping all your photos in sync across all your devices. The other benefit is what we are concerned with here. One of the biggest benefits is that, because your photos are in the cloud, if you lose your iPhone or it breaks you won’t lose your photos. We use it for much more than our iCloud Photo Library, we also store everything on our Mac’s Desktop and Documents in the cloud so we have access to everything we are working on on all our devices. We recommend paying a monthly fee for iCloud storage.

#HOW TO GET PICTURES FROM ICLOUD ON MAC TO IPHONE FOR FREE#

You can get 5GB storage for free but it’s very unlikely that this would be enough for the purposes of storing photos in iCloud. There are actually a few ways to import images from your iPhone where you don’t need a wire. This process is similar to that above, except that you won’t need to confirm that you trust the device in the same way. The photo(s) will now appear in your Imports view.Click on the Import 1 (or more) Selected button at the top of the window to import the photos.Alternatively use your mouse or touch pad draw a marquee around a collection of photos that are clustered together. If you want to import a number of photos click on each photo while pressing the Command key and you will select just those photos.

You can either import all the new images, or just select the photos you want to import. (When we weren’t seeing any photos to import we took a photo with our iPhone camera and this seemed to jolt it into action pulling in thumbnails of our photos).

It might take a while for your photos to appear – especially if you have a lot of photos.

Just click on the dropdown menu beside Import to.

You will have the option to import any photos, you can choose to Import to your Library, a New Album, or any existing album.

If it wasn’t automatically selected, click on it.

Your phone (or camera) should appear in a new Devices section that appears in the left-hand column.

You will then have to enter your passcode to prove that you Trust the computer.

First you will have to unlock your iPhone.

When you plug in an iPhone (or a camera) into your Mac using a cable Photos should automatically open to allow you to import the images into your Photos library. Here is what you need to do to import photos into Photos.

There are actually a few ways to populate your Photo library.

Best way to organise your photos on the Mac.