[Paladin2]

“It just doesn’t work anymore....”

[Paleo Conservative]

Other sources say Apple won’t delete the photos. Still ultimately I wouldn’t rely on commercial online services to stay in business indefinitely. I would rely on having physical backups in my possession in multiple locations.

[minnesota_bound]

This means all the nude photos of celebs will be deleted if they do not save them!!

[Responsibility2nd]

I love my Apple phone. I’ve had 2 over the last 10 years. Why? Because they work. They are superior to Android.

But iCloud? Forget it. My Photo Stream? I don’t know/don’t care what that is.

I back up my pictures to Google and Amazon.

[thinden]

Iphone photo admin

Thanx. For info

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Calling all my relatives now.

[fso301]

Apple will permanently delete a photo album from iPhones in about two weeks

What that means is Apple will permanently take full ownership and deny author access.

[SaveFerris]

Gee, this was hard to predict....

[Sirius Lee]

This is why storing anything in the cloud is a bad idea. If you don’t have the data stored on a device you physically possess, then you don’t really have it at all.

[maddog55]

Never saw the need of taking 10s of thousands of pictures anyway let alone the selfie look at me cultist.

Lot of my pictures were parts or part numbers I was looking to get.

I do have a couple totes full of real pictures and I don’t look at them either.

[Bikkuri]

PING

[GingisK]

Simple solution: Never store your stuff on someone else’s media.

[Drago]

“My Photo Stream” was just a sub-set “Album” of iCloud Photos for short-term photo storage of recent photos until they were synced with your other iOS devices/Macs, etc. that didn’t count against your 5GB of free Apple iCloud Photos storage. Now your new photos will immediately go against the 5GB free limit...methinks it is a “revenue enhancer” to sell more iCloud upgraded storage plans starting at 99 cents per month. ;-)
See:
https://www.apple.com/icloud/

[butlerweave]

so never upload

[StAnDeliver]

"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"

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...

[Irish Eyes]

bookmark

[pgyanke]

Why is this news? It says the service held pictures for 30 days at a time... and the last time they allowed uploads was June 26th... it will be discontinued July 26th.

In other words... they discontinued the service and no photos will be lost other than those that would have already been lost by normal operation. It’s a non-event.

Better headline: “Apple no longer doing Photostream”... but that doesn’t stir people up enough I guess.