Q: Photos on macOS Sierra: Peoples Album does not sync with iCloud Photo Library
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Sep 22, 2016 12:39 AMby léonie,Another indication that the lack of syncing people and the names is intentional:
This document has now also been updated:
Use Photos and iCloud Photo Library on multiple Mac computers - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204486
After you sign in, these items appear in the Photos app on all of your Mac computers:
- All original photos and videos
- All folders and albums
- Smart Albums
- Keywords
- Memories
- Key photo selections
It used to say, that the searchable faces tags will sync between the devices, but the tags are no longer mentioned. Now we have the "Memories" instead.
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Sep 23, 2016 9:04 AMby léonie,It is a big disappointment that the syncing of the named persons is now even less supported than before - now even the searchable tags are no longer synced. Tagging people with names is such a lot of work, and having to do it over and over again is no joy. iCloud Photos Library is supposed to sync the library between devices, and that should include all library items and metadata tags, not just a few. It is bad enough, that the smart albums do not sync to the iOS devices, because I am primarily using smart albums.
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Sep 25, 2016 5:20 AMby jamesgun007,HelpfulAgreed on the feedback that this should be supported or at least an option to toggle (assuming Apple may have it disabled for Privacy reasons).
In previous macOS developer previews, release notes stated that People syncing was "disabled" so it is not as if the feature is missing, it's just not enabled. Hopefully a future update will enable the syncing.
I agree that until this is possible, tagging People and organizing People within iCloud Photo Library is a waste of time.
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Sep 25, 2016 5:19 AMby léonie,Agreed on the feedback that this should be supported or at least an option to toggle (assuming Apple may have it disabled for Privacy reasons).
That is what some of the rumors are saying.
When I talked to Apple Support yesterday, the representative suggested that the syncing of faces is probably not enabled to save iCloud storage and syncing too many data to the iOS devices. But I doubt that syncing would increase the amount of data on the devices. Manually tagging the photos instead of syncing will need the same amount of storage on the device as synced people data.
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Sep 25, 2016 9:54 AMby LarryHN,No it is totally different
Titles and people have nothing in common and iCloud Photo Library syncing has nothing in common with iCloud Photo Sharing
And as explained to you in your original thread iCloud Photo Sharing does not share titles or other photo information - only the photos and comments added to the share photo albums by subscribers
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Sep 25, 2016 11:12 AMby hambroski,Hi - I wish it did sync. I am told my Apple Support that it only syncs between iOS devices and not Macs. Please suggest it as an 'enhanced feature' in via the feedback page http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html
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Sep 25, 2016 11:19 AMby léonie,Hi - I wish it did sync. I am told my Apple Support that it only syncs between iOS devices and not Macs. Please suggest it as an 'enhanced feature' in via the feedback page http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html
I'm starting to doubt that it does sync between iOS devices either. There are so many reports in this forum, that the people sync does not happen, even if the iPhone/iPad user guides are claiming it does sync.
