This week a reader writes, “Whats up Mr. Rossman. I obtained this e mail from Apple and I’m unsure what it means. I have already got all my photographs saved routinely within the cloud and my photographs are routinely saved from my Apple photographs to Google photographs. Does this imply the photographs I tackle my iPhone or iPad will now not share to Google? Do I must take steps to avoid wasting my photographs someplace in addition to iCloud to keep away from shedding them? This e mail is complicated to me.”
I ought to observe the e-mail she forwarded is one I obtained as nicely.
It’s from Apple, and it’s saying that the My Photograph Stream service shall be shut down on July 26.
The message states: “My Photograph Stream is scheduled to be shut down on July 26, 2023.
As a part of this transition, new picture uploads to My Photograph Stream out of your gadgets shall be stopped on June 26. Any photographs uploaded to the service earlier than that date will stay in iCloud for 30 days from the date of add and shall be out there to any of your gadgets the place My Photograph Stream is at the moment enabled. By July 26, there shall be no photographs remaining in iCloud, and the service shall be shut down.”
What’s My Photograph Stream?
It was a service designed to make photographs taken on an iPhone or iPad to be routinely shared to different Apple gadgets logged into the identical Apple ID.
It was restricted to the final 1,000 photographs taken. When you took photos on the seashore along with your iPhone, they’d be synced to the My Photograph Stream album within the Images app in your different Apple gadgets.
It wasn’t an archive; it was merely a shared album.
My Photograph Stream was created within the days earlier than iCloud. iCloud Images gives the identical options, so preserving My Photograph Stream was not obligatory.
Customers don’t must do something. My guess is the overwhelming majority of iOS customers are utilizing iCloud Images and don’t know that My Photograph Stream was nonetheless round.
To make use of iCloud Images, you to should be working iOS 8.3 or later. (Only for reference, the present model of iOS is 16.5.)
To be sure you are utilizing iCloud Images, go to your iOS machine’s settings, then contact the place it reveals your identify on the high of the primary settings web page. Then contact “iCloud” after which be sure “Images” is turned on.
Jim Rossman is a tech columnist for Tribune Information Service. He could also be reached at jrossmantechadviser@gmail.com.
