Apple is shuttering the My Photo Stream service on 26 July 2023. The company says new photo uploads to My Photo Stream will stop a month before, on June 26. Photos uploaded to the service before then will remain in iCloud for 30 days from the date of upload. After that, the photos will disappear with users encouraged to shift to the newer iCloud Photos service.
The good news is that photos stored on the soon-to-end service won’t be lost as they are already stored on at least one of your existing Apple devices.
To save the photos you have in My Photo Stream before the service is completely deprecated, there are a few things you can do.
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
- Open Photos and tap Albums.
- Tap My Photo Stream > Select.
- Tap the photos that you want to save, then tap the Share button and choose Save Image.
On your Mac
- Open the Photos app, then open the My Photo Stream album.
- Select any photos you want to save that aren’t currently in your photo library.
- Drag them from the My Photo Stream album to your Library.
Set up iCloud Photos
iCloud Photos works on any iPhone or iPad running iOS/iPadOS 8.3 or later, and Macs with OS X Yosemite or later. You can view your photos and videos in the Photos app on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, iCloud.com, or sync them to a Windows PC using iCloud for Windows.
Anthony is the founder of Australian Apple News. He is a long-time Apple user and former editor of Australian Macworld. He has contributed to many technology magazines and newspapers as well as appearing regularly on radio and occasionally on TV.