The videos on my iPhone are 4K, but iCloud for Windows 11 is only downloading 1280 x 720. Those are unusable garbage. What Apple tool will keep the files in sync properly?
I don't want to pay Apple for ever increasing iCloud usage. I want my files on my PC.
Windows, Windows 6
Hey PCSteve1,
If you're using iCloud Photos and iCloud for Windows you'll only see thumbnails (low res) of your images until you download them from iCloud. At that point you get the full resolution of the photos.
See more info here: Download and view iCloud Photos on your Windows computer - Apple Support
Cheers!
I have this same issue and have spent too many hours trying to resolve. An interesting thing is that photos taken in Portrait mode are in icloud photos/downloads to my PC in both full resolution AND a 2nd edited version at 53-57% resolution of original. Ridiculous that regular photos that come though to my PC via icloud photos/download at only 25-30% resolution- yeah crap for any large prints. And yes there is workaround via logging into icloud and downloading it with options ( or emailing from iphone photos). And I know this is different than it was before I bought my iphone 14Pro in February! It's either something in phone or something in an IOS update. Really ******* me off though.
iCloud downloading low resolution images to PC
