Sometimes, for entirely inexplicable reasons, the Photos app on your Mac will stop syncing with the photo libraries on your iPhone and/or iPad. When it works, Apple’s simple cross-device photo syncing solution is one of the most elegant implementations of the technology you’ll find on any operating system. When it doesn’t work, it’s a disaster. The Nuclear Option If it’s ever happened to you, you probably Googled around for some answers and ended up disabling syncing on all your devices, then turning it back on. And it probably worked. Great! Except, no. This is the nuclear option. Your entire photo...
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