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.
Always a good idea to have important files backed up on at least three platforms / types of media. For example, hard drive, CD or DVD, cloud, etc.
Oh, and print. Paper is not device / programming dependent.
btw - where is the “Rosetta Stone” for digital info?
But you will never get that great photo, right before you fall off a cliff.
Paper will never be obsolete. The “paperless office” that they were predicting back in the 70s and 80s never happened.
I own a lot of books and my project files are kept in 3-ring binders. I’m right there with you.
“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.”No one is going to have their iPhone photos or their iCloud Photos stored on the cloud deleted that are outside of the discontinuing My Photo Stream storage space deleted. FUD it is Paladin and FUD it stays. PING!
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Don’t panic. It’s FUD… a false report about an old, little used cloud service that is being discontinued that has nothing to do with photos on iPhones. Unless you or your relatives opted into sharing your selected photos from the cloud with non-Apple users, then you’ve got nothing to worry about, and even then it would be ONLY if you had a unique photo that ONLY existed in that shared photo on My Photo Stream that you would lose. That’s a very unlikely possibility.
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Answered and pinged the group. It’s FUD.
X on EOL life-support is a trial balloon, will be surprised if they go that far up in product. I mean, I just put 17.0's beta on an iPhone X last week...
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No, it doesn’t. My Photo Stream was a little used service of the Cloud. So few people opted to use it that Apple is discontinuing it. There were easier and simpler ways of sharing photos than My Photo Stream that people opted to use instead. Unless you have a unique photo stored on My Photo Stream you are sharing that exists ONLY in that location, you are unlikely to lose anything. Apple CANNOT delete photos on your iPhone, and Photos you have stored in your iCloud account are also not going to be deleted.
Users who subscribed to My Photo Stream were notified directly from Apple to download any unique content they had uploaded to their accounts long ago. This is no surprise to the very few people who were possibly still using that service.
Apple now provides Shared Albums that essentially provides the same thing as My Photo Stream did back 12 years ago.
Actually, no, it wasn’t a sub-set “Album” but instead it was an early iteration of the concept existing solely in the Cloud before Apple developed the Shared Album concept. A user would upload pictures to the “My Photo Stream” location unique to that user, then give access to that location to other users whom he/she wished to share that site with. They could then see and download the photos there, and if, given permissions, upload photos for other users, or just for the owner of the account to see. It was awkward to use and navigate.
I set one up and found it so, and soon deleted it, opting to just send and receive pictures to family members via email. Too much time was spent trying to tell family members how to do things on “My Photo Streaming” and others who had their own accounts had trouble coordinating with others.
Apple had expanded it from the system in place that allowed all devices in one AppleID user’s account to share documents, photos, etc., but that did not lend itself well to sharing just photos with other AppleIDs and certainly not with non-AppleID accounts which they tried to Jerry-rig onto it.
It simply was not ready for prime-time.
Good advice. I use the iCloud, and pay for 5 GB to store photos, but I’m going to get an external hard drive with at least 2 TB storage, maybe more.
Unfortunately, it’s not a trial balloon. Both the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X shared announcements… with only a short differences between release dates for sale:
Only 42 days separated the released to sale dates of these two phones. It used to be that Apple Deprecated iPhones at five years. So six years is pretty good.
The problem is that the technology in these phones is not capable of BEING upgraded to the newer iOS because they just do not have the hardware to take it. It ain’t there to take advantage of the upgrades the software has!
It is likely Apple will provide security upgrades for another two years post deprecation, as a friend just got a security upgrade for an iPhone 7 a short time ago. Just no performance enhancements. The iPhone 7 software support ended September 12, 2022… fully six years after it was released September 12, 2016.
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Absolutely good idea. I have files backed up in triplicate across different media. I have had hard drives get corrupted, and it's a pain to recover data. SSD and USB sticks are non-mechanical, no spinners, but volume information can get corrupted and necessitate file recovery which may or may not work. DVD and CD platters can get scratched (or heat warp), and over time the coating material can go bad. Claims of lasting 100 years are bogus.
Best bet is not to have all your eggs in one basket. One good thing about iCloud is that if your house burns down, you can get your data recovered. (But you'll have larger issues to handle.)
Thanks for the more “in-depth” explanation of the “My Photo Stream’ tech. I am sure that NOT having the “3 months” (or whatever time it was) and 1K photo storage for recently taken photos will “enhance” Apple’s “iCloud+” storage sales revenue. ;-) I have yet to set-up/figure out “iCloud Shared Photos”....on the to-do list.
Thanks bro.
I really like my iPhone 8, so I suppose my next iPhone will be an SE (latest version) to maintain the size and still get the updated hardware.
Correct?
Thanks SM.
If Apple follows the last two iterations of iPhones, the SE will have the same processor in it as the highest model so the SE will only have limitations on screen and a few lesser features than the highest versions… and generally not have the faceID. So that would be a good choice for a reasonable price upgrade.
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