Comment by reconnecting
1 day ago
If you open the Photos app (macOS) connected to iCloud with an empty library, there will be no photos until you import them from your phone. Hope this is clear now.
iCloud via browser has a limit of 1k photos per download.
This is not correct.
You don’t need an iPhone for Photos.app to work.
There are plenty of problems with Photos.app but the issue you describe isn’t by design.
My bad — it appears that Monterey wasn't syncing with iCloud due to "Performance." Photos on Monterey hides the status message at the bottom of the page, and I had to pull the page down twice to finally see it.
Thank you for proving me wrong.
Oh god. I’d forgotten about that tiny dialogue box.
98,281 items to sync.
I hope it comes right quickly.