Digital matters

Category: Miscellaneous

  • iCloud Photos, Photos on Apple Devices and iCloud Drive

    The seed for this topic was sown by Ian at our meeting on October 13th 2022. I had to admit that although I had a reasonable idea of what happened with Google Photos, I was unsure what happened with Apple’s cloud offering.

    I was reasonable quick in advising (and it’s reported in the notes of the meeting), that as expected …

    “I can confirm that deleting a file on iCloud Drive from the Files app on an iPhone will delete it from icloud.com and your iCloud drive on MacOS as well – which is what you would expect should happen.”

    However, the situation of Photos stored in the Apple Photos app (on iPhone or iPad) and iCloud Photos should also be noted – for completeness.

    I’m not going to write anything; just provide three links to follow to clarify …

    How to Delete Photos From iPhone but Not iCloud

    How to Delete Photos From iCloud (While Keeping Them on Your iPhone)

    and

    How to recover a deleted photo or video on your iPhone or iPad

    If you want to delete a Photo from both device and iCloud Photos. Just ensure Sync is left on and then you can delete the image from either the device or icloud.com

    Having confirmed all this, and having more storage space on iCloud, and understanding that sharing Photo Albums is about to come to Apple Photos, and having checked that Sync’ing does seem to be working for iCloud Photos (from my Apple devices), I checked my Google Photos settings settings and switched-off Back up and Sync. I was doing far too many cloud backups!!! Always worth checking. If I want a Photo to be on Google Photos (for sharing for instance), I will now Upload, not rely on syncing.

  • What a surprise!

    Great article Jenny! I missed this when the mag. came out a couple of weeks back. Our Jenny has an article in “The Pensioner” – the magazine of the Civil Pensioners’ Alliance (which I joined because of the good deals on Insurance products).

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  • In Case of Emergency (ICE)

    I promised to find and bring back to prominence a post I’d written a couple of years back. It was this one …

    ICE – that’s In Case of Emergency

    … Ann mentioned an app that the Emergency Services like you to have installed on their phones which is called what3words as it enables them to pinpoint quite accurately where you’re contacting them from. You might like to consider installing it on your phone as well as following the advice contained in the link at the bottom of the post I wrote …

    How to add Emergency info to your Phone’s Lock Screen

    The Virgin media link I showed at the meeting (and which is also on Flipboard) is here.