I need help understanding how I can see ALL of my photos on both my iPad and iPhone while I am signed into iCloud, have the iCloud Photo Library on, and enabled sharing between all devices?p

Try signing out of iCloud in Settings and then sign back in.

IF I sign out of iCloud as advised above my iPad says that I will loose all my photos on iCloud, iCloud Drive and Photo Stream??

The data should stay on the servers and when you sign back in it should be restored.

I believe if you read the prompts carefully, that is not what is being said.

When you turn off iCloud drive, that has nothing to do with photos. The data on your iPad from the iCloud Drive app will be removed, NOT the data on iCloud itself.

When you turn off iCloud Photo Library, you will asked about deleting photos from the iPad, NOT iCloud. The cloud retains all data when you simply turn the services off on your iPad. Your iPad loses data, not the cloud.

Thank you most kindly for your help.

I can look at iCloud Drive and see its contents.

However I can not get in to iCloud photos like that to see the contents etc.

That is the reason that I wanted to sign out of iCloud. I had hoped to sign in again and see if I could then get into my iCloud photo contents!

perhaps I have the wrong approach?

can you tell me if the Photos on my iPad and iCloud photos are one and the same?

all help appreciated..

iCloud.comon a device. You can tap and hold the Refresh icon (semi-circular arrow) in the URL bar until "Request Desktop Site" appears and then tap that. The ability to do things is much less than when logged in using a computer.

The photos on both devices should be the same. You can't access the devices from iCloud. You will have to do a manual comparison.

Thank you also, for your help and time.

You are welcome.

signing out of icloud then signing back in worked like a charm 🙂

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