

After upgrading to El Capitan, iPhoto is gone, turning on iCloud sharing of Pictures results in a search for all my images previously residing in my now unavailable iPhoto library. All my old images from back to 2003 could be shown in iPhoto. Pictures taken on my iPhone or iPad turned up as supposed on all my units after enabling iCloud sharing. When running Yosemite all my Apple products worked fine together. With Photos Apple can cash-in due to the connections with the Apple eco-system. So, really, the problem isn't with Apple it's with you making rather a lot of inaccurate assumptions. You're not even forced to use Apple software if you don't want to - nor hardware either.

You have choices everywhere at every step of the way. You can use some other app for the task of managing your photos - Picasa, Lightroom etc etc. If you didn't keep your version up-to-date that's down to you.ģ.
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In fact, if you had an up-to-date version of iPhoto it's not even necessary to upgrade the app. iPhoto is not gone after upgrading to El Capitan. You have to choose to use the iCloud Library.Ģ. Yes you can purchase more space to use the iCloud facility, but that's an option, not mandatory in any way.

It can be used Offline, just like you did with iPhoto. iCloud integration is not required in any shape or form to use Photos.
