Users should resort to iCloud Photos sooner or later. (Image: Apple)
Apple has introduced that its ‘My Photo Stream’ service will shutdown on July 26, 2023 — and going ahead — customers are suggested to transition to iCloud Photos throughout all their Apple gadgets for safe photograph storage in iCloud.
Apple has introduced that its ‘My Photo Stream’ service will shutdown on July 26, 2023 — and going ahead — customers are suggested to transition to iCloud Photos throughout all their Apple gadgets for safe photograph storage in iCloud.
Introduced in 2011 alongside iCloud, My Photo Stream provided a free answer to sync as much as 1000 images from the previous 30 days throughout Apple gadgets, together with iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
As a part of the transition, Apple informs that new photograph uploads to My Photo Stream from customers’ gadgets will cease one month previous to the discontinuation date, which comes out to be June 26, 2023.
“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. By July 26, 2023, there will be no photos remaining in iCloud, and the service will be shut down,” Apple mentioned.
Users needs to be conscious that images inside My Photo Stream are already saved on “at least one of your devices.” Therefore, if the unique images are current on a tool, customers received’t lose their images. However, it is strongly recommended to avoid wasting any images not saved in your library (e.g., on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac) to keep away from shedding them.
In the longer term, customers might want to depend on iCloud Photos for storing and syncing images throughout their Apple gadgets. It’s necessary to notice that when you exceed the 5GB free storage restrict — extra storage would require a paid subscription.
