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Redesigned Photos Web App on iCloud.com Now Available for Everyone

After first testing out a new update to the Photos web app on the iCloud beta website earlier this month, Apple has now rolled out the update to all users (via Mac Generation). The overhaul to the app on iCloud.com introduces a macOS-like Photos experience with a sidebar that can be toggled on and off, and a scrollable thumbnail view of every photo in an album at the bottom of the site when looking at individual pictures.

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Previously, Photos on iCloud.com placed albums in a tab bar at the top of the site, so the update makes it easier to navigate multiple albums at once. To top off the navigation tweaks, there are also four action buttons in the top right corner of the web app for uploading, adding, downloading, sharing, and deleting albums and photos.

The Photos web app on iCloud.com is still lacking macOS and iOS features like editing, shared albums, memories, and people, which uses facial recognition to organize your photos on Mac and iPhone. Users can head over to iCloud.com to check out the new Photos update on the site.

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18 hours ago at 06:16 am
Next up—now that Facebook messenger sucks—iMessage on iCloud.com and iMessage on Android for cross-platform iMessage everywhere. I hope for a day where I can simply iMessage everyone.
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18 hours ago at 06:52 am

Google photos is amazing. Recognises everything when you search, it even made a very nice movie of my holliday.


I'm not sure if that's a good thing.
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18 hours ago at 06:34 am

Very nice, but it would be great if they could work on iCloud Drive for iOS. When I put photos on there, I cant even swipe between them. You have to exit each one and then click the next one and so on and so forth...

An infuriating and nonsense issue that shows that no one at Apple really tests some of these features.
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18 hours ago at 06:17 am
Very nice, but it would be great if they could work on iCloud Drive for iOS. When I put photos on there, I cant even swipe between them. You have to exit each one and then click the next one and so on and so forth...
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18 hours ago at 06:32 am
Wow it doesn't look beta anymore.

How many years did this take?
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18 hours ago at 06:13 am
I'm surprised that Tim Cook let this become more like macOS and not like iOS, but i'm glad. This is much better in my opinion.
Rating: 4 Votes
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17 hours ago at 07:13 am

With non-stop memories with family, vacations, cats, etc., I've found my storage quickly filled with photos.

Both Apple and Google have an optimization function that kills the local high-res image to save device storage, but the number of pictures I have is using up all my cloud storage, as well.

I've been moving older albums and collections to Google Photos to free up iCloud storage. Unlimited photo storage (up to 16 MP, I believe) should help things, long-term.

I wish Apple did something like that.


Different business models. With Apple you pay them. Whereas Google get paid by selling ads.

I have a pretty large photo library so have ponied up £2.49 a month for the 200GB tier. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201238. Free is great, but nothing is actually free.
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17 hours ago at 07:19 am
Wow, just think, if they keep improving the Photos service at this rate, in two years it could be better than Google Photos....was 6 months ago.
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18 hours ago at 06:26 am
Just tried. Nothing even close how good Google Photos online experience is.
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Next up—now that Facebook messenger sucks—iMessage on iCloud.com and iMessage on Android for cross-platform iMessage everywhere. I hope for a day where I can simply iMessage everyone.


For once I agree with you. ;)
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17 hours ago at 07:22 am

An infuriating and nonsense issue that shows that no one at Apple really tests some of these features.


Yep, it's ridiculous. Just proves they are pushing out features just so they can say ''we can do that too'', instead of those features actually being better than the competition and making you choose them over others. It's the reason I'm still using Dropbox. If iCloud Drive worked like it should, I'd already have a subscription for more storage. But nope, Apple cares too much about selling watchbands and dongles.
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