With the enormous number of photos and videos we take with our iPhone, iCloud stands out as a great solution to manage and store them. Sometimes, however, iCloud Photos may show us blurry photos. Fortunately, this is easy to fix. Let's see what options we have to do it.
Why do blurry images appear in the iPhone's Photos app?
When setting up the iCloud section in the Photos app, we are presented with two key options: download the originals and optimize storage. The first option means that all our photos and videos are saved both in iCloud and locally on the device. Although this guarantees access to our media even without an internet connection and prevents us from seeing blurry photos at any time, it can quickly consume the device's storage.
On the other hand, the option to optimize storage removes local versions of photos and videos that we haven't seen in a long time to save space. Our library remains accessible in the Photos app thanks to iCloud, but we need an Internet connection to download multimedia files from Apple's servers, otherwise, the photos appear blurry.
Low-quality previews, which often look blurry, may appear when we activate the option to optimize storage and especially with large files like ProRes videos in 4K or ProRAW images. These previews, especially for images we haven't seen in a long time, are quick downloads of lower resolution.
Two ways to download any image in high resolution
To access the full version of a specific medium from iCloud, all we have to do is open it, although sometimes, depending largely on our internet connection, this is not enough. In these cases, a simple solution to force the download of the photo or video in question is to tap the Edit button. This forces the app to download the file in high resolution and, when exiting the editing mode, it keeps the original version for a while. Alternatively, another resource is to zoom in on the image so that the app downloads the complete original file.
If opening an image is not enough to see it well, these two other resources, which we can apply both on the iPhone and iPad as well as on the Mac, can be very useful to us.
It is clear that storing our content in the cloud, being very convenient and often necessary when managing our complete photo library, has certain disadvantages. In this case, we are talking about the possibility that the image we are trying to view does not have all the quality it should, although, as we have just discussed, it is something we can solve very, very easily.
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