Posted on 07/09/2023 8:40:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Apple will permanently delete a photo album from iPhones in about two weeks and has stopped uploading pictures to it, the company confirmed.
My Photo Stream is an iCloud service that originally launched in 2011. What the service does is temporarily uploads photos taken on a device so they can be seen on another device with My Photo Stream enabled. It also allows users to import the pictures to that device.
Up to around 1,000 photos can be stored in My Photo Stream for about 30 days. They are then automatically deleted from Apple’s iCloud.
But it will no longer be available in just a few days, and users are advised to save any photos they may have in that soon-to-be-deleted photo album.
Apple confirmed in a recent bulletin that My Photo Stream will be “shutting down” on July 26. It did not provide a reason for the shuttering of the service that was launched in 2011.
The Cupertino, California-based firm added that new photo uploads stopped on June 26. Apple then provided a statement that there “will be no photos remaining in My Photo Stream” by July 26.
“My Photo Stream is a separate service from iCloud Photos. Moving forward, iCloud Photos is the best way to keep the photos and videos you take up to date across all your devices and safely stored in iCloud,” Apple said. “If you already have iCloud Photos enabled on all of your devices, you don’t need to do anything else—your photos are already uploaded and stored in iCloud.”
Apple then advises users that to save any photos that are being kept on My Photo Stream should open Photos and tap the Albums section. Then, they’re advised to tap My Photo Stream and click Select.
After that, users should tap the photos they want to save and then tap the Share button and then Save Image. On a Mac, the photos will be automatically imported to their photos library.
“The photos in My Photo Stream are already stored on at least one of your devices, so as long as you have the device with your originals, you won’t lose any photos as part of this process,” Apple notes on its support page.
It then recommends that users turn on iCloud Photos if they want their pictures to be saved and accessible across multiple devices. However, iCloud gives only 5 gigabytes of free space before users have to pay a monthly fee for more storage.
“You can turn on iCloud Photos on any iPhone with iOS 8.3 or later, iPad with iPadOS 8.3 or later, or Mac with OS X Yosemite or later,” it says. “After that, you can view your photos and videos in the Photos app on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, iCloud.com, and even sync them to a Windows PC using iCloud for Windows.”
Apple’s iCloud costs 99 cents for 50 gigabytes of storage, $2.99 for 200 gigabytes, and $9.99 for 2 terabytes, the company’s website says.
Several weeks ago, Apple released an update to devices using the latest version of iOS that fixes two serious security flaws that are reportedly being used in hacks that are currently targeting iPhones and iPads.
According to a support page released by Apple, iOS 16.5.1 fixes an issue in the kernel, tracked with the code CVE-2023-32434, that could enable an attacker to execute code with kernel-level privileges. Like in previous security updates, Apple did not release more information about the fix.
“Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.7,” the company said.
Meanwhile, there have been reports signaling that Apple is soon to cut off support for some older iPhone and iPad models with the release of iOS 17 later this year. That includes the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X, as well as devices that debuted in 2017 and before, meaning they won’t get an update for iOS 17.
“It just doesn’t work anymore....”
Other sources say Apple won’t delete the photos. Still ultimately I wouldn’t rely on commercial online services to stay in business indefinitely. I would rely on having physical backups in my possession in multiple locations.
This means all the nude photos of celebs will be deleted if they do not save them!!
I love my Apple phone. I’ve had 2 over the last 10 years. Why? Because they work. They are superior to Android.
But iCloud? Forget it. My Photo Stream? I don’t know/don’t care what that is.
I back up my pictures to Google and Amazon.
Iphone photo admin
Thanx. For info
Calling all my relatives now.
What that means is Apple will permanently take full ownership and deny author access.
Gee, this was hard to predict....
This is why storing anything in the cloud is a bad idea. If you don’t have the data stored on a device you physically possess, then you don’t really have it at all.
Never saw the need of taking 10s of thousands of pictures anyway let alone the selfie look at me cultist.
Lot of my pictures were parts or part numbers I was looking to get.
I do have a couple totes full of real pictures and I don’t look at them either.
PING
Simple solution: Never store your stuff on someone else’s media.
A R/W DVD or Blu-ray is very handy for that..
I store mine on DVDs or USB sticks.
“My Photo Stream” was just a sub-set “Album” of iCloud Photos for short-term photo storage of recent photos until they were synced with your other iOS devices/Macs, etc. that didn’t count against your 5GB of free Apple iCloud Photos storage. Now your new photos will immediately go against the 5GB free limit...methinks it is a “revenue enhancer” to sell more iCloud upgraded storage plans starting at 99 cents per month. ;-)
See:
https://www.apple.com/icloud/
so never upload
I consider all Big Tech to be agents of the federal government. If you have uploaded anythjng criminal, it gets sent to law enforcement. They can say otherwise, but I dont believe them.
USB sticks are not recommended for long-term storage. They may be unreadable in a few years after they are written.
I also use redundant external hard drives.
What chaps my a$$ is the rapid obsolescence of media.
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