Duplicate photos and videos using icloud photo library

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Duplicate photos and videos using icloud photo library

I recently started using icloud photo library on both my iphone 6 and my macbook pro. I've noticed a couple things:

My photos automatically upload to the cloud from my phone, as do my videos. When i connect my iphone to my mac, it wants to import photos. When i do this i end up with duplicate videos and photos.

How do i fix this?

Also, is there a way to prevent ios from uploading videos only? It would be a lot easier for me to manually sync my videos to my mac. I want my photos to automatically upload though. I've searched and haven't found an answer to this. thanks guys

iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jul 27, 2015 3:15 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 27, 2015 3:19 PM in response to wonslung

You can prevent the duplicates by stopping importing manually from the phone. You can't stop the automatic upload of video though.

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Jul 28, 2015 4:28 PM in response to Winston Churchill

Ok, so heres my issue.

I love being able to access my entire photo library from icloud but it seems enabling photo library automatically enabled syncing. My ideal situation would be to be able to access all of my photos from the cloud while doing the syncing from my macbook pro.

If i turn off icloud photo library i lose access to all the photos stored in the cloud. am i correct here?

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Answer 3

Jul 29, 2015 1:41 AM in response to wonslung

Yes, you can't have it both ways.

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