MacOS Monterey 12.6.1 no longer has all my photos

I used to see all my photos in my library on all my devices. Now there is a new software update for MacOS I no longer see my photos. Instead I have a handy little message saying that if I want to see all my photos I need to update the software. But the software isn't available for my older but perfectly functional laptop. This feels like forced redundancy as it's just software not letting me see my library and not hardware. Does anyone else have a similar issue or a solution?

Posted on Dec 12, 2022 03:28 PM

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markwmsn

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Posted on Dec 12, 2022 10:02 PM

Did you enable iCloud Shared Photo Library on another device running newer software? Any photos in the shared library would not be visible on the older software, because it doesn't know how to access the shared library.

You can avoid the situation by declining to enable iCloud Shared Photo Library on your newer devices while you still have devices that have not been upgraded or cannot be upgraded to support that feature.

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