How to retain images in Photos when turning off iCloud Photo Library

AUTOPLAY, AUTOPLAY, AUTOPLAY!!! Have I mentioned how much I hate autoplay?

That said, this post was worth it, at least to me.

Glen Fleishman, writing for MacWorld, weighs in with an answer to this question:

I’m confused about what would happen if I turn off iCloud Photo Library on my phone, and not use it on the Cloud. Will my Photos app on the computer still retain all 12,000 of my photos? Do these photos live locally on my hard drive?

I find the various iCloud settings confusing, none more so than those for iCloud Photo Library. This is a good explainer, worth bookmarking, passing along.



3 thoughts on “How to retain images in Photos when turning off iCloud Photo Library”

  1. god Macword sucks — what kind of mac fans would be schmucky enough to turn on autoplay videos and ads the way they do? do they not understand who their own audience is? clueless.

    as for the topic….i dont really understand iCloud confusion. check iCloud Photo Library, you’re synced across devices. uncheck it, you’re not. tho, it is good to know that if you check the box for “full-size on this mac” it will retain them.

  2. IDG no longer cares. They gutted the magazine in their race to the bottom. I’m just glad they still have work for the likes of Fleishman.

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