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I have some 9000 pics on the iCloud from iphone camera roll...
The i also use phtos on my Macwhere i have some pics also included on my wexisting icloud library.
Now i want to merge those two, and i was thinkingto enable icloud photos on my mac too...
Will this merge the two libraries or the one willoverwrite the other??
Thank you.
Yannis
iPhone XR
It will merge the three instances of the library (iPhone Photos, iCloud Photos, and Mac Photos). All should be the same after uploading and downloading are complete; future additions, edits, and deletions will be made in all three instances as needed to keep them in sync.
It will merge the three instances of the library (iPhone Photos, iCloud Photos, and Mac Photos). All should be the same after uploading and downloading are complete; future additions, edits, and deletions will be made in all three instances as needed to keep them in sync.
As Mark said. I just want to encourage you to make current backups of your Photos Libraries, before you start the upload, so you can revert to the current version, if there should be a problem.
I am using iCloud Photos on five macs, with different models and system version, an iPhone, two iPads and the libraries are merged in iCloud.
iCloud is solving conflicts between duplicate photos in the separate libraries, so no duplicate originals will be created. But you may be seeing duplicate edited versions, if you have added different adjustments or different titles on your two devices. It will depend on the system versions on your devices, if the named faces will sync across devices. And I had occasionally the problem that turning on iCloud Photos on an iPhone or iPad caused the albums to vanish on my mac. In such cases it is essential to have a current backup.
Both your iPhone and your mac should be connected to Wi-Fi, the iPhone connected to a power source.
You should start the Photos.app to kick off the background processes. Photos will sync with iCloud when it is running in the background and you are not using it. You can minimise the window in the Dock or keep it open. But do not interact with it.
Do i have to keep Photos (on my Mac) open all the time for the sync to happen?
What happens to icloud already stored photos when you activate icloud photos to Photos app on a mac?
