Michal Marek Over the weekend, Apple launched a test version of the new iCloud Photos section on its web portal iCloud.com. Users now have access to a web version of the multimedia gallery with their photos and videos backed up to iCloud. The official launch of the service should come this evening together with the release of iOS 8.1.
In addition to this news on Apple's website, iOS 8.1 beta testers have also gained access to iCloud Photo Library on their iOS devices. Until now, only a limited and randomly selected sample of testers had such access.
With the iCloud Photos service (referred to as iCloud Photo Library on iOS), users will be able to automatically upload their videos and photos from their phone or tablet directly to Apple's cloud storage and also synchronize this multimedia between individual devices. So, for example, if you take a picture with your iPhone, the phone immediately sends it to iCloud, so you can view it on all your devices connected to the same account. You can also allow anyone else to access the image.
The service is strikingly similar to its predecessor in name Photo Stream, but will still offer several novelties. One of them is the support for uploading content in full resolution, and perhaps even more interesting is the ability of iCloud Photos to save any changes that the user makes to a photo located in the cloud. As with Photo Stream, you can also download photos from iCloud Photos for local use.
On iOS, one can choose whether to download the image in full resolution, or rather an optimized version that will be more gentle on the device's memory and data plan. As part of increasing the competitiveness of Apple services, he also presented at WWDC the new iCloud price list, which is significantly more user-friendly than it was before.
The basic capacity of 5 GB remains free, while you pay 20 cents per month to increase to 99 GB. You pay less than 200 euros for 4 GB and less than 500 euros for 10 GB. For now, the highest tariff offers 1 TB of space and you will pay 19,99 euros for it. The price is final and includes VAT.
In conclusion, it is still necessary to add that iOS 8.1, in addition to iCloud Photos, will bring one more change related to image storage. This is a folder restore Camera (Camera Roll), which was removed from the system with the eighth version of iOS. Many users resented this move by Apple, and in Cupertino they finally heard the complaints of users. This staple of iPhone photography, which was already in the first version of iOS released in 2007, will return in iOS 8.1.
or from "tomorrow" all the photos will be on the cloud, so almost no one will have access to them except me, if I'm not a celebrity?
is there any possibility that I have photos in full quality on all devices but there is nothing left on the cloud???
You know, it didn't work without iCloud even before. Where do you think photostream stored it?
Sure, Airdrop or Photo Transfer App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photo-transfer-app-easily/id365152940?mt=8), but it's not automated - just manual.
The paragraph about choosing between full and optimized resolution images is inaccurate/incomplete.
The settings in iOS not only offer a choice whether to upload photos to iCloud in a smaller resolution or in full size, but at the same time (and this was completely overlooked) in the latter case, only previews of photos and videos will remain in the iPhone/iPad. This then results in a considerable amount of capacity being freed up in the iPhone/iPad, which can be used for additional photos, music or installing other applications.
Although such a variant is more data intensive, as soon as you want to view the photos, they are downloaded back from the cloud, but for many people this may not represent a significant problem. In addition, in a situation where the capacity in the iPhone is running out, it can be quite a relief if you do not want to immediately run for a new piece with a higher capacity.
put beta.icloud.com and you'll have it there too
I don't know, I don't even have it here...
and have you turned on iDrive yet?
Yeah yeah turned on
https://beta.icloud.com/#photos
To be honest, I still haven't figured out what happens to the photos and videos I take with my iPhone or iPad. Some kind of stupid albums, collections and other things, you don't know where the real photo is and where it's just the link... It's uploaded randomly to Mac applications and it creates 150 links in the left column "photostream + date", wtf? And it's Apple's fault that I have to research how it works/doesn't work at all.
This is off topic but is anyone else having issues with iCloud Drive? After I threw over 10GB of files on iCloud Drive while still in beta (I have the 20GB version activated), then reinstalled OSX to go with Yosemite with a clean slate after a long time and log in to iCloud, so I expected it to download normally . Unfortunately one time my folder on my Mac was 5GB (the 2 biggest files were not downloaded even after 2 days) and now I've signed out and back into iCloud and the entire Drive download has shrunk to 29MB. Where is the problem?
The problem is that it's broken, like everything lately. In my case, iCloud Drive also shows nonsensical data, wrong folder sizes, and before something is uploaded there, I would rather send it to the server personally on diskettes.
Thanks. It's good to know it's not just me :)
Well, they came up with that soon... after I lost approx. 8 GB of photos on my iPad a month ago thanks to the installation of the miraculously slow iOS 20... but mainly because I pay for the iCloud... :-))
I would be interested in why I don't have a handoff option on my Mac. I thought they would turn it on in ios 8.1 and that it was an ios problem and not osx. And now I see that in the build version of ios8.0.2 I already have this option a long time ago. So I started to find out and now BT version 4 is needed. In the system profile of the Mac I have LE energy bluetooth: yes and under that handoff: No. does it work for you? And what is needed for that?
the question is what kind of mac do you have, for MBP it must be 2012 or newer .. somewhere on the net there is a list
Look, it's like, right!? :( mini mid 2011 with bluetooth 4. I just read that bt4 is enough. They are monsters. So I'm looking in vain for which ones I can actually use improved in Yosemite against mavericks. Probably none
see picture
http://cdn.theapplelounge.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/osx-yosemite-bluetooth-4.0-le-apfeleimer-800×383.jpg
here is some instruction how someone got around it, but I probably wouldn't go into that :)))
http://www.theapplelounge.com/feature/exclusive-how-to-enable-handoff-on-older-macs-running-os-x-yosemite/
Well, I have a mini mid 2011 where it should be and it says the same in the handoff system: no. You're starting to get me pretty in that apple.
Yesterday I also dealt with it, and that table has been changed on the Ofiko website.
Viz
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5458
https://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/
(approx. in the middle here).
So what was written during beta testing (see above) no longer applies and everything is different again.
They treat us well. It cannot be said otherwise.
I still know that there is a lot of talk about the LMP version of Bluetooth... but I don't understand what it is about.
Bluetooth is not needed for some functions - for example, I can receive calls on a Mac if the Mac and iP are on the same WiFi (MB Air 2014, iP5).
Handoff with BT took a while to get going but now it works. But I still haven't really used it yet.
Handy is AirDrop between Mac and iP, maybe it could also work on older machines...
Well, it just doesn't work. If you have mid 2011 and older, you are out of luck.
I'm more curious how many people will download 8.1 immediately and how many will wait until someone tests it :-D
I'm curious about the first reactions and God forbid that he be a jerk again...
yes it works for me :)
it's a drink*. Sorry, but their famous switch between 2G, 3G, LTE is still not there. According to what I read, no one has it (other operators)
I have the switch there.
How is it supposed that another Apple ID will get to my automatically backed up photos on iCloud? I would really appreciate this, and having the option of automatic copying to my iCloud or displaying both backups in one gallery would be nice. Because yes, I want to see only one photo stream from all devices in the family and have photos in only one place.
I wanted to ask. Basic iCloud drive size is 5gb yes? And if I would like to pay extra for the 20 GB, will I have a total of 20 GB or 20+5 of the basic one?
Hi Luka, you will be 25 then.
No, it's only 20GB.
So I pay for 15 gigabytes (now I'm talking about words, I know, but 5 gigabytes is free, so I pay for 15 gigabytes for this version...?)
Unfortunately yes, we pay for 15GB. :-/
Bullshit... You pay for 20GB and 5 are free = 25GB
I have it myself
Congratulations, it shows me only 20GB. There is an option of 5GB (free) or 20GB (for 99 cents per month).
There is also the possibility that 25 GB, like me, is only available to those who have had it for a long time.
I have an account from the paid MobileMe days and I also have 20 GB in total.
Good day, I'm also going to try the iCloud beta now, photo, which I've been waiting for and looking forward to for a long time. I have an iPhone 6 and an iPad, the service is activated on both. When I log in to the account from a computer, I can see pictures in iCloud and can download them. However, the opposite method does not work for me, so that I can create an alum on the website or upload photos from a PC to iCloud, is that normal? I tested on PC W7 and Mac Lion.
Can someone advise me how to allow access to the images to anyone else? How is it mentioned in the article? I didn't see this option anywhere? How is that meant?
Otherwise, it's a complete bomb with the iCloud Photo Library, that the photos between the three devices are really syncronized, and when I do something on one, it is immediately reflected on the other two, and when I then set an automatic backup to Google+ on one device, where I automatically create editing stories, etc., so it's absolutely great..
The only drawback is the size of the space
Apple - 5GB
Dropbox – approx. 9GB
Box – 10GB
Google – 25GB
Microsoft – 30GB
Flickr - 1TB
Here, Apple really has it under fire, but it can pretty solidly force the 1 USD per month on the users, just as I pay iTunes Match to legalize illegal music.
Hello. Also, did your battery start draining extremely quickly after updating to 8.1? I have an ip5s