Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference to kick off June 10 at 10 a.m. PDT with Keynote address

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Photos and icloud sync

Hi,

I have an old iMac (late 2013, with Catalina OSX) where I uploaded some old pictures to Photos before I was syncing with iCloud.

In the result I have now all of the devices (iphone, Ipad ect) syncing all the current photos to iCloud but only iMac shows a few years of old photos that were not synced before.

The 'iCloud synced photos' show on the iMac but older pictures do not show on any other devices.

Now I need to get rid of the iMac and I'm not sure how to add those 'old' photos to iCloud sync.

Should the old photos add to the sync or I need to manually transfer them to one of the 'current' devices?

Cheers

Mac

Earlier Mac models

Posted on Jun 3, 2023 8:10 AM

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ku4hx

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Posted on Jun 3, 2023 8:13 AM

As with all uploads, the size of the block of data determines how soon they "show up". Give it time, uploads and the general iCloud Drive experience are not instantaneous.

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