Apple Will Permanently Delete iPhone Photos in July: Here’s How to Keep Yours Safe

Epoch Times ^ | 07/09/2023 | Jack Phillips

[Paladin2]

“It just doesn’t work anymore....”

[Paleo Conservative]

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.

[minnesota_bound]

This means all the nude photos of celebs will be deleted if they do not save them!!

[Responsibility2nd]

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.

[thinden]

Iphone photo admin

Thanx. For info

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Calling all my relatives now.

[fso301]

Apple will permanently delete a photo album from iPhones in about two weeks

What that means is Apple will permanently take full ownership and deny author access.

[SaveFerris]

Gee, this was hard to predict....

[Sirius Lee]

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.

[maddog55]

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.

[Bikkuri]

PING

[GingisK]

Simple solution: Never store your stuff on someone else’s media.

[Bikkuri]

A R/W DVD or Blu-ray is very handy for that..

[GingisK]

I store mine on DVDs or USB sticks.

[Drago]

“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/

[butlerweave]

so never upload

[Jonty30]

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.

[brianl703]

USB sticks are not recommended for long-term storage. They may be unreadable in a few years after they are written.

[GingisK]

I know. That is why the final resting place is a DVD.

I also use redundant external hard drives.

What chaps my a$$ is the rapid obsolescence of media.