I sync my iPad on to iTunes. I have signed up to iCloud on my PC. I wish to access all my photos from either my iPad or my PC via iCloud, but if I enable iCloud photo sharing on my iPad, I am warned that photos synced from iTunes will be removed. I don't want to lose any photos. What should I do? Is there a risk that I will lose some photos?
iPad Mini, iOS 8.4, also iCloud on PC and Family member
Are you sure you are not referring to iCloud Photo Library? If that is what you are referring to, then what you are indicating to the systems is that you want all of your photos to be housed in iCloud, and all of those photos will be accessible from either your iPad or from iCloud.com/Photos. That is why it would "remove" photos sync'd from iTunes. Because once iCloud Photo Library is turned on, your iPad will diaplay all of your photos:
iCloud Photo Library FAQ - Apple Support
iCloud Photo Library Help - Apple Support
Cheers,
GB
I think Apple needs to rethink the icloud backup. I signed up for 200GB of space and while it was loading my photo library, it removed around 4k photos from my local machine and used up any local remaining disk space. Further backups to the icloud were stopped because there wasn't any space on my hard drive, which is why I signed up for the icloud in the first place. If I want my icloud photos back, I now have to go into iCloud and manually select every photo just to get it back and it downloads to my download folder. icloud is no good if it alters my local machine library. If I am doing something wrong, please feel free to flame me but altering hundreds of events on my local mac wasn't what I wanted.
I wish to back up my photos
