{"id":39526,"date":"2023-05-29T15:11:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T19:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39526"},"modified":"2023-06-28T13:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T17:49:25","slug":"photo-stream-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/29\/photo-stream-shutting-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Stream Shutting Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Apple’s “My Photo Stream” service is set to shut down<\/a> on July 26, 2023, which means customers who are still using that feature will need to transition to using iCloud Photos<\/a> prior to that date.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

You can see why they are consolidating on iCloud Photos, but Photo Stream had some appealing features that will be lost. First, you could backup\/sync an unlimited amount of data (for a limited time). There was no need to worry about upgrading your account temporarily or having photo storage crowd out storage for other apps. Second, you could access recent photos and videos on all devices without having to store everything<\/em> in the cloud.<\/p>\n\n

Stephen Hackett<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Photo Stream is one of the original components of iCloud, and was kept around even after iCloud Photo Library launched in 2014. Here’s how Apple pitched the feature when iCloud was new<\/a>[…]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2023-06-01): Michael Steeber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I don’t know if my memory is toast or what, but until the news last week of Photo Stream shutting down, I cannot recall one single time before that it was ever called “My Photo Stream.” I’ve known it as just “Photo Stream” since day one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was thinking the same thing.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2023-06-28): See also: Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Juli Clover: Apple’s “My Photo Stream” service is set to shut down on July 26, 2023, which means customers who are still using that feature will need to transition to using iCloud Photos prior to that date. You can see why they are consolidating on iCloud Photos, but Photo Stream had some appealing features that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-05-29T19:11:32Z","apple_news_api_id":"388b74b4-e2d5-47d0-9f21-cbcff5f739dc","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-06-28T17:49:28Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AOIt0tOLVR9CfIcvP9fc53A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16,1142,31,2185,30,2223,450,1451],"class_list":["post-39526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-icloud","tag-icloud-photo-library","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-mac","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-photostream","tag-sunset"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39911,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39526\/revisions\/39911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}