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How to Upload Photos on iCloud: iCloud is a service that lets you sync your contacts, photos, messages, and other data across all of your devices. It is a good choice if you want to share information between your devices or back up important information like photos.
We’ve already talked about how to use iCloud to back up your device. In this guide, we’ll mostly show you how to move photos from your iPhone and computer to iCloud. iCloud can do more than just back up your iPhone and iPad.
iCloud can make sure that all of your devices, like your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and PC, have the same photos. You can set up your devices to automatically upload a copy of all photos to iCloud, or you can manually upload photos from your Mac or Windows PC.
Upload Photos on iCloud from iPhone or iPad
- Go to Settings
- Select your name
- Tap iCloud
- Tap Photos
- Turn on iCloud Photos
- Make sure the button next iCloud Photos is green. Just tap it to change colour.
- Select how you want to store your photos
- Optimize iPhone Storage. Your phone will contain optimized, lower-resolution versions of your iCloud photos while full-resolution (and larger file size) versions will be stored in the iCloud (and are accessible when you have an internet connection)
- Download and Keep Originals. This option lets you download all your photos and videos in full-resolution. It means you can enjoy higher quality images all of the time, but it will require much more storage space.
- Turn on Upload to My Photo Stream
Steps to upload photos to iCloud from Mac
When using a Mac, all you have to do to upload photos to iCloud is drag and drop them into the Photos library. Any photos or videos you save here will be sent to iCloud Photos automatically. This can include photos taken with a camera, content saved from the Internet, things that other people have given you, and other photos and videos in the right file formats.
- Open the Photos app
- Click on Photos in the menu bar
- Select Preferences
- Click the box next to iCloud Photos
- Select how you want to store your photos
- Optimize iPhone Storage. Your phone will contain optimized, lower-resolution versions of your iCloud photos while full-resolution (and larger file size) versions will be stored in the iCloud (and are accessible when you have an internet connection).
- Download and Keep Originals. This option lets you download all your photos and videos in full-resolution. It means you can enjoy higher quality images all of the time, but it will require much more storage space.
How to upload photos to iCloud from Windows PC
- Visit Apple Support and download iCloud for Windows.
- Open iCloud for Windows
- Select Options
- Select iCloud Photo Library
- Click Done
- This will set your preferences.
- Enable iCloud Photo Library on your iOS devices. This gives permission to sync. You can also select what exactly you’d like to share between devices here, such as your Photo Stream, and whether you download and upload new images to your PC automatically.
- Open Windows Explorer
- Select Upload Photos
- Select the images you want to upload
What Features Does iCloud Have?
iCloud Backup
When you plug your iPhone or iPad into a charger while it’s connected to Wi-Fi, Apple backs up your device to a secure iCloud server. You can also manually back up your device to iCloud by going to Settings and choosing [Your Name] > iCloud > Backup > Back Up Now.
Your Apple ID gives you 5GB of free online storage with iCloud. You can buy more storage if you need it. You can back up your device, store photos, and do many other things with this storage. If you buy a new iPhone, you can save time by restoring it from your most recent iCloud backup.
Drive on iCloud
Apple’s cloud storage service, iCloud Drive, works with the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It works like Dropbox and Google Drive in that you can store your files in the cloud and access them from different devices. This makes sure that, no matter what device you’re using, you always have the most recent version of your files.
iCloud Drive works in Finder on your Mac and the Files app on your iPhone or iPad. When you make changes to a document, it is automatically synced to the cloud. You don’t have to use only Apple devices to use iCloud Drive because you can also use it on Windows.
Keychain
With iCloud Keychain, you can save your login information for apps and websites in a safe way and have those details sync to all of your Apple devices. You won’t have to remember as many passwords this way. It also lets you have your login information automatically filled in when you use an app or website on an Apple device.
Sync App
iCloud lets apps like Calendar, Reminders, Mail, and Notes share data so that all of your Apple devices show the same information. This means you don’t have to worry about having duplicate copies of data, and you can use all your Apple devices more easily than ever.