Apple Will Permanently Close My Photo Stream Album; Here is How to Save Your Uploaded Photos

Apple encourages customers to back up their photographs and migrate to iCloud photographs.

We have some terrible news for you if you have precious memories stored in Apple's My Photo Stream album. Apple has officially stated that the My Photo Stream function will be discontinued permanently next month. 

This function, which automatically saves photos taken in the past 30 days, will be deactivated on July 26. 

Now is the time to back up important photos

According to The New York Post, My Photo Stream has already stopped uploading new photographs since June 26, and everything presently in the album would be erased if the site is shut down.

Apple promises customers, however, that any photographs submitted to My Photo Stream prior to June 26 will remain available in iCloud for 30 days from the upload date. 

These photographs will be available on devices that have My Photo Stream activated. 

Take Notice

Apple suggests taking urgent steps to ensure you keep all of your treasured photos. Go to your camera roll's My Photo Stream album and save your photographs to your smartphone or immediately to iCloud.

According to Apple, the photographs in My Photo Stream are already on at least one of your devices. 

As long as you have the original images on the device, you will not lose any of them during the shutdown procedure. Users who are anxious about losing their valuable memories might find some solace in this.

Make the Move to iCloud Photos

While saying goodbye to My Photo Stream may be upsetting for some, Apple is pushing customers to switch to iCloud Photos.

There is no need to do any extra steps if you currently have iCloud Photos activated on all of your devices. Your photographs are already effortlessly synchronised to iCloud.

It is crucial to understand, however, that iCloud storage is not free. Apple gives 5 gigabytes of free storage, but there are subscription alternatives available if you need additional capacity. 

You may acquire 50 gigabytes of storage for $0.99 per month, 200 gigabytes for $2.99 per month, and two terabytes for $9.99 per month.

But what if you don't want to pay more for iCloud storage? According to one creative trick, Apple customers should back up their images via the Amazon images app or their Google accounts. These providers can give more storage without requiring a paid iCloud account.

Apple gives step-by-step instructions on how to preserve your current photographs in My Photo Stream to avoid losing any photos during the transfer.