Q: Photo Changes Syncing Across Devices
I had asked a question about my Photos library organization getting messed up, and am now in the process of reorganizing. But I had a couple more questions about Photos I don't quite understand.
When I make a bunch of changes to Photos on my Mac, it takes forever to show those album changes on all of my devices. How long does that typically take?
Also, if I updated all of the albums and moved photos around on my Mac how do I know syncing is going on? Do I need to leave Photos open for the syncing to continue?
Lastly, I have made changes to the Photos album on my Mac just now, at say 9:30am on 10/2/16. But when I exit Photos and go into my folder where the library is stored, it says the last change took place yesterday at 1:40pm. Shouldn't it say 9:30am on 10/2/16? Is there a way to save the album that I am not understanding?
Thank you.
iPad Air, iOS 10
Posted on Oct 2, 2016 9:45 AM
I ended up deleting every photo from my iPhone. I first unsynced from the Cloud entirely, and went through and dragged through 18,000 photos and deleted everything and all albums. It was a pain, but I really didn't want to reformat my entire iPhone and start from scratch. Believe it or not I think it took less effort and time. Once I got all of the photos off of the phone I then resynced with the Cloud and now everything is synced on the Cloud across my Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
Lesson I learned is if you ever turn off Cloud on your iPhone, be sure to completely delete all of your photos from your phone before you resync with the cloud. If there are a bunch of photos on the iPhone and you resync with your Cloud it could duplicate and mess up your photos and albums. Also backup per the advice some have given by downloading all pictures to your Mac and then do a Time Machine backup.
Posted on Oct 2, 2016 9:12 PM