More web-based troubleshooting ensued, and I discovered that to save a video onto your iPad, you have to use iTunes, Apple’s music app which is mostly used for buying songs, apps and movies. Relieved, and ready to love Photos again, I dragged my videos onto the iPad icon only to - wait, this can’t be! - the app wouldn’t copy my video onto my iPad. As Photos’ first glance turned into stone-cold reality, it seemed like the new app had forsaken all of these crucial features.Īfter a few more seconds of poking through the app’s menus, I was relieved to see that Apple included a sidebar after all - it’s just turned off by default. iPhoto, for all its clunky faults, had a file manager-like sidebar that allowed users to make albums, drag-to-copy photos, and quickly navigate to file formats like videos or the last batch imported. One reason Photos seems so slick and fluid is that it looks like an iOS app: simple, single-screened, and singularly focused on displaying your images. And it was then that I realized what was missing between Photos and iPhoto: a sidebar. I clicked on Photo’s “help” menu, and navigated down to the “Photos Quick Tour” option, only to discover that it’s “coming soon.” This is understandable for a beta app, if still disappointing. That actually never happened my iPad still has the images on it, even though they were imported to my Mac’s photo library. But the only thing that would let me do was copy the images on my iPad onto my computer - so that’s what I did, requesting they be deleted from the device once uploaded. I clicked on the app’s various tabs, and finally came across my iPad’s library when I clicked on the “Import” button. In fact, there was no mention of my tablet on the user interface. With my iPad plugged into my Mac, I scrolled through my photos, realizing these were not the photos on my iPad. It was at this point when I noticed the current pitfalls of Apple’s new Photos app. (Dropcam engineers: Note, while it’s possible to share these videos and download them on other devices, it’s not possible to save them direct to an iOS device. Then I figured I’d import them onto my iPad using Photos. ![]() But that wasn’t possible through the Dropcam app, so I had to save them using Safari on my Mac. While these movies can be viewed within the Dropcam app, it’s never safe to assume there will be functional Wi-Fi when you’re giving a presentation, so I decided to save them to my device. Fast forward to a couple of days later, and I’m trying to save a few Dropcam videos onto my iPad to show during a presentation.
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