Photos taken with my IPhone 15 pro (80+ at least) vanished when searching for them on my IPad.

@all,


First of all, I am not searching for sympathy but urgentie looking for help.

Due to my fast to come cremation I was looking for lots of old pictures in our stored photo books. That is, the paper versions. 🤭

This afternoon I made a proper selection of about 80+ pictures, clipped them a bit, changed width and height and stored them. At least that was all I wanted. With ICloud they could be synchronized with IPad so I could use them on IMovie.

Surprise surprise. About 10-15 are seen and all others vanished to ………

Any idea what went wrong? As my life expectation is about 10 days so the available time is limited and even then the time to work with IMovie which I hardly ever used before, is another issue.


Please help.


Thanks


Frans


iPhone 15 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Mar 4, 2025 8:44 AM

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Mar 4, 2025 11:07 PM in response to markwmsn

Good morning to you,


Despite a rather restless night, my current impression is that I have enough energy to tackle this annoying double-through problem with remote help, for which I thank you already. Now let it always be said that my heart was that of a young god despite my other health issues, but that bell now rings for attention too. 🤭 Fortunately, I still have my humour then. If that is gone, then the last exit of any highway has been taken. For now, happy new day to all and on to the solution.

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Mar 5, 2025 6:04 AM in response to markwmsn

Hi Mark,


As the issue still persisted, I definitely wanted to solve this, for me somehow very hard to understand issue, why just some pictures were synchronized, and some not. And this also took more then a while.

I am certainly not a newbie but as long as my hardware works as I think it should, then it’s fine by me. I went looking for ‘odd details’ in the setup of ICloud on IPhone, IPad Pro, ICloud.com but not yet on my MacBook Pro. The last one is used not very much BTW. And there, I noticed, besides my main e-mailadres three other unknown addresses, amongst one from Proton mail. Not that I have any secrets, but sometimes being anonymous can be convenient. Where, who, why they were there? Really got no idea. I always was under the impression that Apple was super secure. I’m afraid I must change that opinion immediately. I removed / deactivated all three and from that moment the synchronizing between my devices went not only faster but also complete. Thank god, because now I can continue creating my last movies so people can notice what a nice guy I have been during my still active life. Just kidding!!!! :-)


I really think that my self-confidence has increased, received a boost, just by having contact with you. Thanks for that.


Kind regards


Frans

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Mar 5, 2025 8:58 PM in response to Fransaplast

Frans,


I'm pleased to hear that your device synchronization has completed and you can proceed to create your last movies. Please let us know if there is something else we can do to assist. I haven't done much work with photos in iMovie myself, but probably others here have done so.


--Mark

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Mar 5, 2025 11:30 PM in response to markwmsn

Good morning Mark,


For this moment I am able to do my trick so I’m a happy man besides my future. And that is what we have accepted. I can recommend this to all that want to hear how someone can deal this way. I’m not religious anymore so where my end destination might be, I hope to meet some former friends. 🤣


I discover one other odd thing regarding the use of OneDrive on the IPhone. The app works fine but the direct connection is not ok. Power off power on solves this issue temporarily. For the time being I am ok with this and won’t put any energy in it. I can do whatever I need so a big 🤮 to Microsoft.


Enjoy this beautiful day, at least in Holland and again thanks for your support.


regards


Frans

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Photos taken with my IPhone 15 pro (80+ at least) vanished when searching for them on my IPad.

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