Photo Stream shutdown
If Photo Stream is disappearing doe this mean you can no longer save your photos to your phone/iPad? Is the alternative to using iCloud downloading an app to store your photos?
iPhone 12 Pro Max, iOS 16
User profile for user:
Lissy_12
User level:
Community Specialist
Hi Rubie-Roos-Ma,
Thank you for using the Apple Support Communities! That's a great question. The following resource has more details about the transition that can help:
Information about the My Photo Stream shutdown
As part of this transition, new photo uploads to My Photo Stream from your devices will stop one month before, on June 26, 2023. Any photos uploaded to the service before that date will remain in iCloud for 30 days from the date of upload and will be available to any of your devices where My Photo Stream is currently enabled. By July 26, 2023, there will be no photos remaining in My Photo Stream, and the service will be shut down.
The photos in My Photo Stream are already stored on at least one of your devices, so as long as you have the device with your originals, you won’t lose any photos as part of this process. If a photo you want isn't already in your library on a particular iPhone, iPad, or Mac, make sure that you save it to your library on that device.
Moving forward, iCloud Photos is the best way to keep the photos and videos you take up to date across all your devices and safely stored in iCloud. If you already have iCloud Photos enabled on all of your devices, you don't need to do anything else — your photos already sync to iCloud. To check, on your iPhone or iPad, go to Settings > your name > iCloud. On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings, click your name, then click iCloud. Make sure that it says "On" next to Photos on each of your devices.
Save photos currently in My Photo Stream
If your photos currently in My Photo Stream aren’t already in your library, you can save them to your device.
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
1. Open Photos and tap Albums.
2. Tap My Photo Stream > Select.
3. Tap the photos that you want to save, then tap the Share button> Save Image.
On your Mac
1. Open the Photos app, then open the My Photo Stream album.
2. Select any photos you want to save that aren't currently in your photo library.
3. Drag them from the My Photo Stream album to your Library.
Hope this helps!
Have a great day.
