Accessing photos from iCloud on iMac

I have an iMac 27-inch 3.4 GHz Quad-core Intel Core i5 from 2013; I can't get my photos to sync with my iCloud photos, it wants to access a library but it does not give me the option of accessing photos from the cloud. How can I get my iCloud photos?

iMac 27″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 17, 2020 10:33 PM

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LACAllen

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Aug 18, 2020 2:29 AM in response to mkcjbbmac

mkcjbbmac wrote:

I have an iMac 27-inch 3.4 GHz Quad-core Intel Core i5 from 2013; I can't get my photos to sync with my iCloud photos, it wants to access a library but it does not give me the option of accessing photos from the cloud. How can I get my iCloud photos?

In the Mac's photos app, Preferences > iCloud > iCloud Photo Library to checked.

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