![]() Though Apple Support is usually courteous and respectful, even the escalated support was puzzled by my problem. If Apple support had clarified that Photostream could not handle all the photo data when uploaded to them - I would have understood. The process of photostream and not paying APPLE TAX (as my customers refer to it) was something I turned a lot of people onto and it worked great until, they changed it to a month of photos (not 1000) and newer phone photos wouldn’t keep the aspect ratio. Ultimately the solution -which they NEVER related to me - was to use Photo Cloud and my camera photo settings would stay intact. At that time they told me My Photo Stream was doomed anyway. ![]() This was an extended period of Apple escalated support that was not resolved by them. I prefer shooting square images) when the photo hit My Photo Stream and wound up on my desktop computer. If you search for my name here you might find my thread a few years back about Switching to a new phone and losing specific settings (i.e. Apple could stave off some of the hard feelings caused by canceling My Photo Stream by increasing that free amount to 10 GB. ![]() Check the size of your Photos Library, stored by default in ~/Pictures, to see how much you need beyond the 5 GB Apple gives everyone for free. I haven’t used or recommended My Photo Stream for years, but if you still find it useful, I suggest paying for enough iCloud+ storage to turn on iCloud Photos for better syncing and additional protection against losing images. See “ iCloud Photo Library: The Missing FAQ” (15 April 2015). iCloud Photos (initially known as iCloud Photo Library) is better in nearly every way, except that My Photo Stream didn’t count against your iCloud storage quota, making it free. It didn’t support videos, stored only your 1000 most recent photos on each device, kept photos online for only 30 days, didn’t work over cellular connections, downloaded smaller photo versions on iOS devices, and wasn’t accessible from the iCloud website. My Photo Stream (originally called Photo Stream) was Apple’s first iCloud-based solution for syncing photos between devices. By July 26, 2023, there will be no photos remaining in iCloud, and the service will be shut down. Any photos uploaded to the service before that date will remain in iCloud for 30 days from the date of upload and will be available to any of your devices where My Photo Stream is currently enabled. As part of this transition, new photo uploads to My Photo Stream from your devices will stop one month before, on June 26, 2023. My Photo Stream is scheduled to be shut down on July 26, 2023. In a just-published support article, Apple writes: #1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browserĪpple to Shut Down My Photo Stream on 26 July 2023.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.#1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.#1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down.
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