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Setup: Mid-2015 MBPr, Mojave 10.14.5 with Photos 4.0, iPhone and iPad with iOS 12.3.1. On the iPhone and iPad I have set up iCloud for Photos with iCloud Photos ON, Download and Keep Originals, Upload to My Photo Steam ON, Upload Burst Photos ON and Shared Albums ON. On the MBP, in Photos/Preferences/iCloud I have My Photo Stream and Shared Albums checked, but iCloud Photos NOT checked (I'll say why in next paragraph.). On the iPad and iPhone, Photos indicates 8,666 photos and 327 videos. When I log into iCloud.com I see the same stats. However on my MBP Photos reports 9.741 photos and 354 videos. The most recent photo on the MBP is dated May 11, but on the iPad and iPhone, there are pictures from as recent as yesterday, June 13.
Why not turn on iCloud sync in the MBP? Because it says on the prompt for the check box "Automatically upload and store all your photos and videos in iCloud so you can access them from an of your devices and on the web." Note that it does NOT say "merge," just "upload and store." Similarly the Apple document at Keep your photos safely stored and up to date on all of your devices - Apple Support says nothing about how to merge Photos across devices and pretty clearly says that if I turn on iCloud in Photos on the MBP what is on the MBP will be uploaded to iCloud Photos and from there down to my iPad and iPhone. But there are pictures on the iDevices that are NOT in Photos on the MBP and clearly there are photos on the MBP that are NOT on the iDevices or iCloud because the counts are over 1000 different.
So, other than going through the images one at a time, is there any way to merge these various Photos so that all pictures are on all devices and that they stay in sync? Any idea why Photo Stream isn't streaming? I find the documentation at Apple curiously inadequate on this one product. Usually I can find out how things work at Apple.com/Support, but this one is stumping me.
TIA.
Why not turn on iCloud sync in the MBP? Because it says on the prompt for the check box "Automatically upload and store all your photos and videos in iCloud so you can access them from an of your devices and on the web." Note that it does NOT say "merge," just "upload and store." Similarly the Apple document at Keep your photos safely stored and up to date on all of your devices - Apple Support says nothing about how to merge Photos across devices and pretty clearly says that if I turn on iCloud in Photos on the MBP what is on the MBP will be uploaded to iCloud Photos and from there down to my iPad and iPhone. But there are pictures on the iDevices that are NOT in Photos on the MBP and clearly there are photos on the MBP that are NOT on the iDevices or iCloud because the counts are over 1000 different.
So, other than going through the images one at a time, is there any way to merge these various Photos so that all pictures are on all devices and that they stay in sync? Any idea why Photo Stream isn't streaming? I find the documentation at Apple curiously inadequate on this one product. Usually I can find out how things work at Apple.com/Support, but this one is stumping me.
TIA.