Hi,
I uploaded some pictures in my iCloud drive but they don't get an actual thumbnail preview. They all show a generic icon (as shown in the attached image). Is this normal or there is a way to get actual previews?
Thank you.
That is normal. The image files I put on iCloud Drive are also only showing the generic icons. If you want to browse photos i iCloud, consider to import them to the Photos.app and to enable iCloud Photo Library. Then the Photos.app in iCloud will show you image thumbnails. Or, if you do not want to use Photos on your Mac, use the Photos.app on iCloud to upload the photos.
That is normal. The image files I put on iCloud Drive are also only showing the generic icons. If you want to browse photos i iCloud, consider to import them to the Photos.app and to enable iCloud Photo Library. Then the Photos.app in iCloud will show you image thumbnails. Or, if you do not want to use Photos on your Mac, use the Photos.app on iCloud to upload the photos.
When I look at photos on iCloud Drive using my iPhone, quite a few are showing an image thumbnail, but the same photos are showing just a generic icon, when I view them on https://www.icloud.com/#iclouddrive or in the Finder on my Mac in the iCloud Drive folder.
For example this jpeg image at icloud.com:
And in iCloud Drive on the iPhone:
Th screenshot in the original post looks like from www.icloud.com, so I thought the question was about the web version.
Thank you Léonie!
I have enabled Photos in iCloud library but this does not solve my problem. What I am looking for is to have all my 100GB photos collection in one place and access it on the go through my 16GB iPhone and 64GB iPad. So iCloud auto sync is not working for me.
Is there another way to do it using Apple apps? I prefer not to use non-Apple implementations.
Thank you for your reply.
I think it may have something to do with the format the photos are in, this is what I see myself.
Yyes, I think you are correct, iCloud.com does do some things differently than the iCloud Drive app (such as aliases)
iCloud drive shows only generic preview of pictures
