{"id":28938,"date":"2019-05-31T10:51:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T14:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/?p=28938"},"modified":"2019-05-30T10:16:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T14:16:20","slug":"photos-not-syncing-between-devices-properly-via-icloud-photos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/photos-not-syncing-between-devices-properly-via-icloud-photos-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos Not Syncing between Devices Properly via iCloud Photos?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iCloud Photos (which Apple previously called iCloud Photo Library) is wonderful when it\u2019s working. Take some photos on your iPhone, and they appear on your Mac and iPad a minute later. Delete unnecessary shots and edit the others on your Mac, and your iPhone and iPad reflect those changes almost immediately. But what if changes aren\u2019t syncing? Photos in iOS and macOS can pause syncing for a variety of reasons, and sometimes it doesn\u2019t restart when it should. To see if this is happening, go to the very bottom of the Photos view in Photos, where it lists the number of photos and videos you have stored. Below that number is the sync status. If it has a reason and a Resume link, click or tap Resume to start it again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Photos-Resume-1004x1024-1.png\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Photos-Resume-1004x1024-1.png 1004w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Photos-Resume-294x300.png 294w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Photos-Resume-768x784.png 768w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Photos-Resume-1080x1102.png 1080w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Photos-Resume.png 1127w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"306\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/306;\" \/><small><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iCloud Photos (which Apple previously called iCloud Photo Library) is wonderful when it\u2019s working. Take some photos on your iPhone, and they appear on your Mac and iPad a minute later. Delete unnecessary shots and edit the others on your Mac, and your iPhone and iPad reflect those changes almost immediately. But what if changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[157,193,56,194,39,405,48,52,5,70,196,57,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-pros","category-apros-archive","category-asmc","category-asmc-archive","category-blog","category-icloud-photos","category-ios","category-iphone","category-mac","category-photos","category-restricted-content","category-tip","category-troubleshooting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Photos-Resume-1004x1024-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YLEm-7wK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30686,"url":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/how-to-choose-between-icloud-photos-and-my-photo-stream\/","url_meta":{"origin":28938,"position":0},"title":"How to Choose Between iCloud Photos and My Photo Stream","author":"computeradv","date":"March 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Apple provides two ways of moving photos from your iPhone to your Mac: iCloud Photos and My Photo Stream. 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