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When switching on the ICloud Photo Library I get a message saying the following:
photos and videos synchronised from ITunes will be removed
synchronisation of photos from ITunes is not supported when activating ICloud Photo Library
1656 photos and videos will be removed
What does that in reality mean, will it delete everything on the IPad photo stream?
iPad 2
It means exactly what it says. If you have photos on your device that were synced from your computer using iTunes, those photos will be erased and replaced with the photos on your device that were not synced rom your computer. If you use iCloud Photos, Photo Stream is no longer supported.
IOW, you cannot sync photos from a computer and use iCloud Photos at the same time.
It means exactly what it says. If you have photos on your device that were synced from your computer using iTunes, those photos will be erased and replaced with the photos on your device that were not synced rom your computer. If you use iCloud Photos, Photo Stream is no longer supported.
IOW, you cannot sync photos from a computer and use iCloud Photos at the same time.
See the "What happened to the My Photo Stream album?" section in:
Get help with iCloud Photos - Apple Support
I believe what that message really means is that when you turn on iCloud Photos, all of your photos and videos are now securely stored in iCloud (when they automatically upload). So there is no need synchronize them from iTunes. But, I would suggest you copy them to an external (thumb) drive, if you can, just to be sure.
I take this message at face value. This is a screenshot from my iPad.
I take this to mean that the photos that you take with the device, screenshots, saved from websites, etc, will be the ones that are uploaded to iCloud and the ones that are currently on the device via syncing with iTunes will be removed.
I do not use iCloud Photos because I find many things iCloud to be a little flakey. I also admit that some of it confuse me, therefore I stay away from it.
If you are backing her iPad up and then you turn on iCloud Photos, you can enlighten us and let is know exactly what happens.
That was my first thought as well, I would assume that all photos would be stored in the cloud, but I’m not ready to risk my mother in laws complete collection 😅 I will do a backup just to be sure then 🙂
I backed up all her photos and switched on the Icloud Photo Library and it did as you outlined.
All photos synched from laptop(Itunes) was deleted and the only remaining was from the photos taking with the device, screenshots etc.
I have now uploaded all the pictures in Icloud and it works very well, all are visible on her Ipad again and as a bonus it freed up lots of storage :)
Excellent. Just remember that iCloud Photos is not really off device storage. It will save space on your devices, but it is just a syncing service. If you delete photos on your device, it is deleted in iCloud and everywhere else that you have iCloud photos turned on.
It’s my mother in laws IPad and she just confirmed that all the pictures was transferred from a laptop, so that definitely supports your statement.
Thanks
Yes Im aware of that :) But it will work just fine for my mother in law :)
Thank you for the support
I assumed that you knew, but I like to make sure and you’re quite welcome.
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