Mentioning iCloud is the quickest way to confuse people. I know plenty of people who won’t try to use iCloud services because the idea of it boggles their mind. But once you’ve set it up, you can seamlessly use it to upload photos to iCloud automatically, be able to access iCloud photos on your PC or Mac, and easily download your iCloud photos.

Amazon’s Cloud Drive offers unlimited photo storage to Prime members ($99 for the year), but requires users pay $60 per year in order to store videos that go beyond a 5 gigabyte limit.

We’re going to cover everything you need to know about photos and iCloud. We’ll start with how to upload photos to iCloud, which is also how to set up iCloud for storing photos. Then we’ll go over how to access iCloud photos on iPhone, PC, and a Mac. Lastly, I’ll show you how to download photos from iCloud. I’m going to avoid all unnecessary information here so that I can show you the easiest way to manage your photos with iCloud. Here’s how to upload photos to iCloud from iPhone, as well as how to download those photos from iCloud. When you have iCloud Photo Library turned on, every photo you take on your iPhone will upload to iCloud.

If you’re connected to the internet (via Wi-Fi or cellular), it will do so automatically. If not, it will sync once you’re connected. Having your photos in iCloud also allows you to access your photos from any computer, PC or Mac, with an internet connection. Which means you can easily download your iCloud photos to any PC or Mac. If, on the other hand, you’re wondering how to download photos from iCloud to your iPhone, that’s even easier because all you need to do is login to iCloud on iPhone and turn on iCloud Photo Library. Having iCloud Photo Library enabled means that all of your devices (and iCloud) will have synced photos. So if you delete a photo from your iPhone, it will be deleted from iCloud and vice versa.

It’s good to note that your iPhone comes with 5 GB of free iCloud storage. I pay a dollar a month to get 50 GB of storage.

You can also get 200 GB for $2.99 a month or 2 terabytes for $9.99. And you can share iCloud storage plans with anyone who is part of your iCloud family if you have Family Sharing enabled. How to Upload Photos to iCloud from iPhone & How to Download Photos from iCloud to iPhone Funnily enough, uploading photos to iCloud from aniPhone and downloading photos from iCloud to an iPhone is done in the exact same way: you have to log in to iCloud on your iPhone and turn on iCloud Photo Library. With iCloud Photo Library turned on, your photos will automatically upload to iCloud.

Likewise, when you log in to iCloud on your iPhone and turn on iCloud Photo Library, the photos you already had stored in iCloud will sync to your iPhone. Java spring release for mac. So, in order to both automatically upload photos to iCloud and get your photos from iCloud (download them) to iPhone, this is what you need to do: • On your iPhone, open the Settings app. • If you aren't already logged in to your Apple ID/iCloud account, you’ll need to tap Sign in to your [device].

Then enter your Apple ID email and password. • If you are already signed in to your Apple ID/iCloud account, tap your name at the top. • Select iCloud.