So Apple released iOS 9 last night at 6pm UK time, and after a few glitches trying to download, iOS 9 had installed on my work iPad Air.
I then upgraded on my MacBook my iCloud storage plan and moved to the £0.79 per month 50gb capacity option. I am hoping this is enough, otherwise it will rise to £2.49 for the 200gb plan.
I had imported photos in to the Photos app going back from Feb 2015, around 400 shots in total. I now had around 4,000 photos and a selection of videos in my Photos app on my MacBook. I had gone through the collection and deleted several older shots or near duplicates to free up space.
So now I switched on iCloud Drive, iCloud Photos with Photostream and iCloud Photos being backed up and then all the other iCloud options. When I switched on the iCloud Photo option, I got a message saying referenced photos would not be uploaded, and these needed to be consolidated first.
WTF.
I had no idea what this meant, but a quick Google and my answer was found. These were all my new photos from this year that I had imported into the Photos app, but not into the Photos database. Make sense? So how do you discover all the photos that are referenced. Well, the Photos app now has smart albums, so simply create a smart album showing all referenced photos. I then highlighted the whole lot, went file, consolidate and 5 mins later the job was done.
I now have to see how long it takes for my photos to upload to iCloud. Once this is completed, I will have nearly everything in the iCloud.
And then my LG G4 shows I have a notification from Google Photos. A new story had been created of my trip to Berlin, completely automatically, adding full names of the places I visited and more. The story is so well put together, I could not have done it better myself. At IFA, Google Photos even identified which hall I was on when a photo was taken. Genius.
Someone tell me why I am moving to Apple again?
Updated – Well since 11pm (its now 6.07am) only 37 photos and 2 video clips have uploaded. Not even a dent on the 4,000 photos/videos needed to be uploaded!
Gavin's Gadgets & Photography 
You’re moving to Apple again because their really distortion field is incredibly powerful. I just had an MRI brain scan and was told to remove all metal items. I forgot about my belt buckle. With every magnetic pulse I felt my belt being pulled towards the machine. Apple is like that. They find a way to hook into you and draw you in. I think it’s subliminal.
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That should say ‘reality’ not ‘really’. They’re even distorting my comments.
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Lol 🙂
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Phone freaks like powerful attractive phones but with things to fix. It would be so boring if it was so perfect…we’ve seen incredibly fast improvements to Android and dare I say it, it’s getting boring now…I’m still on Android though but looking out for the next Windows flagship rather than Apple
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Hi Gavin….Google photos is awesome. It also woks perfectly with an iPhone. I had the sane experience you had with the Google photos building a movie from my iPhone pics. It also backs up photos automatically from the iPhone . It is the best of both worlds . Can’t wait till you start discussing Apple again!
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Strangely I’m looking forward to the new iphone as well. I also have the Apple Watch 🙂
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The watch is great!! I am really looking forward to your future iPhone 6s Plus posts. I will have a new one right along with you . Thanks Gavin
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