Over the week of Thanksgiving, I decided to give it another try. I hadn’t really spent any time with Photos.app since OS X El Capitan, and I had heard a lot of good things from people I know about it.
I imported my photos and uploaded my 70GB photo library to iCloud. Everything went very smoothly, so I turned on iCloud Photo Library on my iPad.
Aaaaaand it all exploded.
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I will probably keep my photos in Photos.app, but I won’t be uploading them to Apple’s service again. Photo management needs to be bulletproof, and iCloud has proved, yet again, to be far from it.
Update (2015-12-10): Christopher Sardegna:
Nearly all of the old photos I have in my iCloud Photo Library look like this. Great images, all gone. Destroyed.
My iCloud Photo Library is now so big that metadata/thumbnails can’t be loaded onto a 16GB iOS. Has to be disabled
Update (2016-12-13): Jonathan Wight:
People were asking me if using Photos.app for storing all my photos was working for me?
Well today it ate them all. So no.
300 GB of photos no longer accessible in Photos.app. Fortunately I have many backups (not crazy!)