My Photo Stream is an iOS feature that makes it very easy for users to access recent photos taken on your iPhone or iPad or uploaded from PC or Mac. Apple released the My Photo Stream feature at about the same time Facebook and Instagram were at the top of their photo sharing game. While it may not be seen as a competitor for Facebook and Instagram, My Photo Stream is still a very useful way to share photos across all Apple devices.
Dec 05, 2014 Photo Stream folders disappeared when put iCloud Photo Library ON! So how do I get the photos on my Mac or PC to iCloud Photo Library? If you’re opting to use iCloud Photo Library, all the albums you’ve synced from iTunes will instantly be removed from your iPhone or iPad. Until Apple offers a native solution in 2015, you can use.
My Photo Stream uploads the most recent photos on your device so you can view and export them on all your devices. Photos in My Photo Stream will remain stored for up to 30 days. It is also worth noting that if you turn on iCloud Photos on your device, the photos will be available on both iCloud Photos and My Photo Stream.
But like many other iOS features, My Photo Stream can have its own problems. One of these problems is My Photo Stream suddenly disappearing from your iPhone. In this article, we address this problem and try to help you locate it.
If you are unable to find My Photo Stream images in the Photos app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, follow these simple steps on all your devices to try and get them back;
Step 1: Make sure that you are connected to Wi-Fi on all your devices. You can do that by going to Settings > Wi-Fi
Step 2: Tap on Settings > {Your Name} > iCloud > Photos. Check that “My Photo Stream” is turned on for each of your devices. If it is on and you still can’t find the images, turn it off and then tap “Delete.” Turn in My Photo Stream again.
Step 3: Now, on the device you used to take the photo, close the Camera app to enable the device to upload photos from My Photo Stream.
You may also want to make sure that your iOS device has more than 20% battery power. My Photo Stream has been known to disable itself temporarily to save battery life.
Sometimes when My Photo Stream is missing from the iPhone, it could mean that you don’t have adequate iCloud storage. When you initially set up iCloud, you get free 5GB of storage. You can also buy additional storage with plans starting from 50GB at $0.99 per month.
If you run out of iCloud storage, you may not be able to back up your device to iCloud and new photos and videos wont upload to iCloud Photo Library. This could affect the My Photo Stream feature. To see how much iCloud storage you have, follow these simple steps;
On your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, go to Settings > {Your Name} > iCloud and tap “iCloud Storage” or “Manage Storage.”
On your Mac go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > iCloud and then click “Manage.”
You can easily create some storage space in iCloud by deleting some content such as old iCloud backups. Photos, text messages, videos and files. You may want to archive or make copies of the information before deleting anything.
My Photo Stream was in many ways a pre-cursor to iCloud Photo library. And when iCloud Photo Library became available, many iOS users chose to move to iCloud Photo Library. But there are a few things that can happen to My Photo Stream when you enable iCloud Photo Library. One of those things is that as soon as you enable iCloud Photo Library, you will notice that My Photo Stream will no longer be available on the device.
But don’t worry! Your photos are not lost they are now in the “All Photos” section where you can look for the photos. If iCloud Photo Library is not turned on any of your devices, you should be able to see a My Photo Stream album. Once iCloud Photo Library is enabled the album disappears which is why you may not be able to see it.
If you are nervous about the safety of your iCloud photos, you can choose to download all the photos in iCloud including all My Photo Stream photos. This may also be a great way to get some much needed storage space in iCloud. The best way we can recommend for you to download your iCloud photos is to use iMyFone D-Back. That’s because D-Back allows you to easily and selectively download photos from your iCloud backup files. You can also extract data from an iTunes backup file if you have a backup but don’t want to restore the device.
The following is a simple step by step process to do that;
Step 1: Download and install D-Back to your computer and then launch it.
Step 2: From the main window, select “Recover from iCloud Backup” and click “Start.” To gain access to your iCloud backup files, you will need to sign in to iCloud. Sign in and then select the iCloud backup file you need. Click ‘Next”.
Step 3: In the next window, select the type of file you want to recover as “Photo” and then click “Next.”
Step 4: The program will scan and analyze the backup file and display its contents on the next page. Select the missing photos from the displayed results and then click “Recover” to save them to your computer.
With Photos for Mac, all the pictures and videos you've taken on your iPhone or iPad, or imported into iPhoto or Aperture, will always be available to you on any of your Macs, as will any future pictures and videos you take or import, including your DSLR images, even in RAW!
Add to that automatic, intelligent grouping based on time and place, and face detection, non-destructive editing, and the ability to order prints, books, and more, and Photos for Mac makes for the ultimate picture and video app for the mainstream.
Here's your ultimate guide to setting up and using it!
Photos is your one-stop shop for just about everything you'd want in a photo organization app. You can store, edit, share, and more in Photos for Mac, and all you have to do is dive in and get started. Here's how!
iCloud Photo Library aims to deliver on the promise of having all your photos available on all your devices all of the time. To accomplish this, iCloud Photo Library works with Photos for Mac as well as with Photos for iOS and iCloud.com, as the glue that holds everything together. Shoot a video on your iPhone, take a picture with your iPad, import from your DSLR on your Mac, and all of it goes up to Apple's servers and is made available on all your other devices. Part backup, part sync, part storage optimizer, if you let it, iCloud Photo Library can make micromanaging your pictures and videos a thing of the past.
Photos for Mac uses the same hierarchy as Photos for iOS — intelligently grouping images and videos into moments, collections, and years. That lets Photos for Mac show you small moments in time and space, like yesterday at the park, but also collections of moments marked by larger changes, like that party across town or that week at the beach, and even an entire year all at once. That way you can quickly zoom out, drill down, or scrub through to find exactly the photos and videos you want to look at, edit, or share. And all it takes is a few clicks and swipes! Of course, you can also find by faces, location, keywords, and more!
From magic wand, to basic color, light, and black & white tweaks, or full, granular control over exposure, saturation, intensity, and more. You can also rotate, flip, crop, and straighten, remove redeye, touch up blemishes, and more. Photos for Mac has everything you need to make your pictures look exactly how you want. What's more, all the edits are non-destructive, so if you don't get something perfect the first time, you can change it again whenever you like, or even go right back to the original. Combine that with the large screen, and editing photos on the Mac isn't just easy, it's accessible to everyone.
Share directly via iCloud, Mail, Messages, or AirDrop, or socially with Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, or Flickr. Either way, you can do it quickly and easily right from Photos for Mac. Simply find the picture or video you want to share — or multiple pictures or videos — choose the way you want to share them, and you're good to go. Thanks to sharing extensions, other services can plug in as well. It's the fastest, easiest way to get your pictures and videos from where they are to where you want them to be.
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