u/aesponyma

Hello everyone

I upgraded to the 2 TB iCloud plan because I want to download all my photos to an external hard drive and then free up space on my iPhone.

The problem is that iCloud only shows my photos up to January, even though I have many more recent photos on my phone.

I also created albums on my iPhone named 2020, 2021, 2022, etc. so I could download each year separately and move everything into the correct folders on my computer, but these albums do not appear in iCloud.

I’m worried that some photos have not uploaded yet, and I’m afraid of losing pictures during the transfer.
Another issue is that iCloud still contains old screenshots and downloaded images that I had already deleted from my phone, so I’m very confused about what is actually synced.

Has anyone experienced this? How can I make sure all my photos and albums appear in iCloud and safely download everything without losing anything? Thanks 🙏 😊

Hello everyone,

I’m doing a huge photo cleanup and trying to move everything to an external hard drive. My priority is the 30,000 photos on my iPhone because I’m out of storage and my phone is becoming almost unusable.

When I connect my iPhone to my computer with a USB cable, only about 12,000 photos appear instead of the 30,000 that are actually on my phone, so I gave up on that method.

I then upgraded to the 2 TB iCloud plan, thinking I could download everything from iCloud, organize it on my hard drive, and then delete the photos from my phone. But in iCloud, I can only see photos up to January.

I created albums on my iPhone named 2020, 2021, 2022, etc. so I could sort everything by year and simply download each album, move the photos into the correct folder on my computer, and be done. But these albums do not appear in iCloud, and I can’t find them.

I’m also worried about losing photos during the transfer. On top of that, iCloud still contains old screenshots and images downloaded from the internet that I had already deleted from my phone, so downloading from iCloud would mean a huge amount of extra sorting even though everything is already organized on my iPhone.

I’ve been working on this for months. I already sorted all my photos and videos from 2005 to 2015, and now I’m working on the more recent years.
It used to be so much easier when everything was stored directly on a camera and all you had to do was transfer the files. This whole cloud situation is driving me crazy.

Sorry if this question has been asked before, but I feel completely lost. What is the safest and easiest way to transfer everything without losing photos? 😔

quick question about VIP.

i used to have it before, but now i’m trying to find a way to get it cheaper

i’ve heard some people use things like VPN or different regions to get better offers, but i couldn’t get that to work

does anyone know a legit way to get VIP for less? any tips or methods that actually work?

thanks!