{"id":38323,"date":"2023-01-30T15:47:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38323"},"modified":"2023-01-30T15:48:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T20:48:27","slug":"switching-on-icloud-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/30\/switching-on-icloud-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching on iCloud Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.eternalstorms.at\/2023\/01\/25\/switching-on-icloud-photos\/\">Matthias Gansrigler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.eternalstorms.at\/2023\/01\/25\/switching-on-icloud-photos\/\">\n<p>65 photos were unable to upload, according to Photos on my Mac. Why? I couldn&rsquo;t honestly tell you. Photos didn&rsquo;t tell me. It should have, if you ask me. I&rsquo;d have liked to know. And there&rsquo;s no way to retry to sync those photos with iCloud. They&rsquo;re just in the &ldquo;Unable to Upload&rdquo; smart-album forever.<\/p>\n<p>Albeit, a bit of online research reveals an Apple support document with one of the weirdest and Apple-unlike solutions to a problem I&rsquo;ve ever come across:<\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Export the photos in question &ldquo;unmodified&rdquo; to a folder on your disk.<br \/>Step 2: Delete them from Photos (scary)<br \/>Step 3: Import those photos you just exported into Photos again to retry their syncing.<\/p>\n<p>It worked (mostly), but still, why can&rsquo;t I just do this in Photos itself?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>An interesting tidbit: All my synced devices show a different photo count.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/01\/ios-15-messages-bug-deletes-saved-photos\/\">iOS 15 Messages Bug Deletes Saved Photos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/sometimes-its-better-to-just-start-over-with-icloud-photo-library-syncing\/\">Sometimes It&rsquo;s Better to Just Start Over With iCloud Photo Library Syncing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/26\/icloud-photo-library-re-uploading\/\">iCloud Photo Library Re-uploading<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/30\/done-with-icloud-photo-library\/\">Done With iCloud Photo Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/21\/more-problems-with-icloud-photo-library-uploads\/\">More Problems With iCloud Photo Library Uploads<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/20\/trusting-icloud\/\">Trusting iCloud<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthias Gansrigler: 65 photos were unable to upload, according to Photos on my Mac. Why? I couldn&rsquo;t honestly tell you. Photos didn&rsquo;t tell me. It should have, if you ask me. I&rsquo;d have liked to know. And there&rsquo;s no way to retry to sync those photos with iCloud. They&rsquo;re just in the &ldquo;Unable to Upload&rdquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-01-30T20:47:10Z","apple_news_api_id":"1cdedea0-d847-4a66-bbb3-7594d9d8b6d9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-01-30T20:48:29Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AHN7eoNhHSma7s3WU2di22Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,1142,31,2185,30,2223,927,269],"class_list":["post-38323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-icloud-photo-library","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-mac","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-photos-app","tag-syncing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38330,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38323\/revisions\/38330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}