Apple One For Dummies

Chapter 10

Picture This!

IN THIS CHAPTER

Accessing and enabling Photos on your devices

Uploading, downloading, and sharing photos and videos

Photos and videos are ubiquitous these days. Everyone seems to have a smartphone and they use it to take photos and videos of everything from the most important life events to the silliest selfies they can conjure. (I’ll be quite pleased when the dreaded “duck face” pose has ended its reign on social media.) The cameras on these things are amazing, allowing budding photogs to take pictures that would rival those taken with the very best photographic equipment from a decade or two ago.

However, the age-old problem of organization still exists. In the good ole days, photos were kept in albums or, worse, just tossed into boxes that were opened once in a blue moon. The digital age has ushered in another problem: The pictures you want are on a different device than the one you have handy. For goodness’ sake, all we want is for our photos and videos to appear on every single device we own! Can anyone help us realize this goal?

“Why, yes,” says Apple, “we can.” iCloud Photos is just what the doctor ordered.

iCloud Photos stores your photos and videos in iCloud and enables you to sync them across your Apple devices and even Windows PCs.

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