My Photo Stream shutting down

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OnceBitten

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#305722 30-May-2023 21:31

I received an e-mail from Apple saying from 26 July My Photo Stream will be shut down

I've read the e-mail and the support page link and it's left me more confused than anything

on my macbook and also on our iPads and iPhones we have the photos icon - click on that and all our photos come up

all the photos are in 'library' but they also appear to be in 'my photo stream'

does this mean all the photos will stay in the library and just the 'my photo stream' part of photos will be going?

any advice would be appreciated thanks

wellygary

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#3082635 31-May-2023 08:47

Yes, you existing copies will remain in your device libraries

If you want to continue syncing your photos across devices via apple photos, you will need to use iCloud photos,

(which if free up to 5GB, but after that you need to fork out $$$ to APPL)

davidcole

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#3082682 31-May-2023 10:57

Yeah i was using photo stream.....I think it was mostly because I didn't pay for anything other than the free 5gb. But we pay now for backups. So I've turned it on. I hope that was my only reason why I didn't use it.

I don't quite understand shared albums and under icloud photos there is shared library.

And now I think I might have an album on the phone and a shared version as well.

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