Yes, Apple has decided that everything except the kitchen sink should be stored online in iCloud instead of directly on your iMac. First, it was your iTunes music library; then your Pages, Numbers, and Keynote documents; and now it’s your photographs and video clips! To turn the iCloud Photo Library feature on, choose Photos→Preferences, click the iCloud tab, and click the iCloud Photo Library check box to enable it.

Turn on iCloud on Windows 7/8/8.1/10. First set up iCloud account on your iOS devices or Mac, then install iCloud for Windows. Open iCloud for Windows and sign in with your Apple ID you used to create your iCloud account. Select services that you want to enable such as photo library, iCloud Drive and click Apply. Enable iCloud Drive. 2020-3-3  iCloud Photos works with the Photos app to keep your photos and videos securely stored in iCloud, and up to date on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple TV, and iCloud.com. How it works iCloud Photos automatically keeps every photo and video you take in iCloud, so you can access your library from any device, anytime you want. 2020-4-6  For, to Disable or turn off iCloud Photo Library on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Go to, Settings iCloud Photos Turn iCloud Photo Library Off. If in your iDevice iCloud Photo Library is turn off, then you can’t upload your iDevice or Mac Photo album or videos on iCloud Photo Library.

2020-4-5  iCloud Photos is Apple's service which automatically backups all your media files in its original size into a single library for remote access from any of your devices. In this article, we will show you how to turn on iCloud Photo Library synchronization on different devices. If you want your Mac's photos to wirelessly sync to all your other iOS devices and computers, you want to set up iCloud Photo Library: Apple's photo sync service lets you back up your images on all your devices, as well as access them — online or offline — on said devices.If you're willing to pay for the extra iCloud storage space, you can store an incredible amount of photos and videos. How to turn off iCloud Photo Library when you don't have enough local storage A reader wants to disable syncing to iCloud, but can't download the full-resolution images and videos.

With iCloud Photo Library, your entire Photos Library is actually stored online, and everything in your Library is also accessible from other Macs and iOS devices like your iPad and iPhone. (Think “central storage house for everything visual that you can reach from anywhere with an Internet connection.”) If you take a photo with your iPhone, for example, you see it appear automatically within Photos, and if you’ve recently cropped and edited a photo to perfection with Photos, you’ll be able to retrieve that photo on any of your iOS devices or another Mac.

From the same iCloud pane in the Preferences dialog, you can choose to

• Store copies of the full-size images and full-resolution videos on your iMac’s local hard drive (allowing you to edit or view the originals even when you’re not connected to the Internet)
• Store smaller images and lower-resolution videos on your iMac, with the ability to retrieve the originals from the iCloud at any time (if you’re connected to the Internet)

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Naturally, if you’re a photographer who needs constant, instant access to your original images, the first option is preferable. (Choose the Download Originals to this Mac option in the iCloud pane.) If your iMac’s drive is nearly full and you’d like to conserve space, however, the second option is very attractive. (Choose the Optimize Mac Storage option in the iCloud pane.)

All this goodness is handled automatically, but there’s a catch: Your entire Photos Library needs to fit within your free 5GB of iCloud storage, or you’ll have to pay a monthly subscription to get additional elbow room! (Currently, storage subscriptions range from 99 cents a month for 50GB of space to $9.99 a month for a whopping 1TB of space.)

If you have only 3GB of photos, you may be able to use iCloud Photo Library without spending anything extra. However, you may need to upgrade if you take lots of pictures. The choice is yours, dear reader. If you decide not to use the iCloud Photo Library, rest assured that Photo Stream will still work as it did in iPhoto.

iCloud Music Library is Apple's cloud-based repository for all your music (and music you've saved or downloaded from Apple Music). Anyone who has an Apple Music or iTunes Match subscription can take advantage of it. But before you enable iCloud Music Library, there are a few things to know.

Apple Music Subscription

Apple Music is Apple's massive music service, comprising a subscription music catalog, iCloud Music Library syncing across your devices, Beats 1 live and algorithmic radio, customized playlists, and more artist exclusives than you can shake a stick at.

Cloud-based matching can be buggy

iCloud Music Library has come a long way since it first launched with Apple Music in 2015. It syncs more reliably now, and keeps everything in order. But like any computer system, errors are bound to crop up that need your personal attention.

What kind of errors? Stuff like:

• Missing or mismatched album artwork
• Live tracks matched to their studio versions
• Wrong metadata
• Albums refusing to sync

The vast majority of people's libraries shouldn't see these errors, but regardless: Before spinning up iCloud Music Library, you should make a backup of your music library. This way, in case anything goes pear-shaped, you have a place to reset.

What do I lose when I disable iCloud Music Library?

If you choose to turn off iCloud Music Library, you'll no longer have access to:

• A cloud-based copy of your Mac's iTunes library
• Your Mac's Matched or Uploaded tracks to stream on your other devices (if using Apple Music or iTunes Match)
• Any saved songs from the Apple Music catalog

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Even with iCloud Music Library off, however, you'll still have access to purchased iTunes content; that's always available for streaming across your devices whether you have iCloud enabled or not.

Don't want to use iCloud Music Library but still want to jam out to Apple Music? Here's how to use Apple's subscription service without it. You can also use iCloud Music Library with a secondary iTunes Library if you want to keep your primary music collection separate, but still sync some of your tunes to your other devices.

How to enable or disable iCloud Music Library

If you want to turn iCloud Music Library on or off, here's how you go about doing that.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch

1. Open Settings.
2. Tap Music.

3. Tap the iCloud Music Library switch to turn it to the 'off' position.

4. Tap Turn Off.

5. Tap the switch again to turn on iCloud Music Library.

On your Mac

1. Open iTunes on your Mac.

2. Click iTunes in the Menu bar.

3. Click Preference.

4. Click the checkbox next to iCloud Music Library to uncheck it. Click the box again to check it and turn on iCloud Music Library.

A note on iOS 13 and macOS Catalina

In Apple's upcoming iOS 13 and macOS Catalina software releases, these options work as outlined in the instructions above, except that the option is now labeled 'Sync Library' instead of iCloud Music Library, and on macOS, the process takes place in the Music app, rathar than iTunes, which is being split into separate Music, Podcasts, and TV apps.

Any other questions?

Let us know in the comments. (We've also got a bunch of iCloud Music Library troubleshooting articles available.)

Updated August 2019: Instructions updated through macOS Mojave and iOS 12.4.

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