My Photo Stream: Apple is shutting down this operate in favour of iCloud Photos

Apple has launched that it will shut down the ‘My Photo Stream’ operate for iPhones and completely different models. In a weblog publish not too way back, the company said “My Photo Stream is scheduled to be shut down on July 26, 2023 …. Moving forward, iCloud Photos is the best strategy to keep the pictures and films you take up to date all through your entire models and safely saved in iCloud.”

In case you are unaware, the operate was launched in 2011. With My Photo Stream, prospects’ pictures and films are routinely synced all through Apple models – iPhone, iPad and Mac. The agency will pull the plug on in July. 

As part of the transition, new image uploads to My Photo Stream out of your models will stop one month sooner than, on June 26, 2023. 

Apple says that any pictures uploaded to My Photo Stream sooner than that date will keep in iCloud for 30 days from the date of add and could be accessible to any of your models the place My Photo Stream is presently enabled. By July 26, 2023, there could be no pictures remaining in iCloud, and the service could be shut down, it states.

Will you lose your pictures?

Since, pictures in My Photo Stream are already saved on on the very least one in all your models, so as long as you’ve got acquired the machine collectively along with your originals, you obtained’t lose any pictures as part of this course of. If {a photograph} you want just isn’t already in your library on a specific iPhone, iPad, or Mac, it might prevent it to your library on that machine.

How to keep away from losing pictures that are presently in My Photo Stream

If your pictures presently in My Photo Stream normally aren’t in your machine’s library, it might prevent them. Here’s how

Open Photos app in your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touchTap Albums after which faucet on My Photo Stream > SelectTap on the image(s) that you just want to save after which faucet the Share buttonHere, faucet on Save Image.

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Updated: 30 May 2023, 05:47 PM IST

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