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I got a bunch of emails about this but I don't really understand what it is. (I barely uses Apple Photos)

• deleted 3y ago
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• gjsman-1000 3y ago
  It's a weird feature I doubt anyone used. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201317 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201317 It's a service that existed three years before iCloud Photo syncing, being released in 2011 with iCloud in 2014. It's safe to say almost everyone uses iCloud. It appears that it let you "stream" your photos to other devices without having to plug them in, but photos were only saved for 30 days if you didn't save them to local storage from the stream. So it wasn't really a storage product as much as a weird, convenient? way to move photos from an iPad to a Mac, for example.
  • highwaylights 3y ago
    The idea of photo stream was that you could have your photos on more than one of your devices but not stored on an ongoing basis in the cloud. The photos would be stored in the cloud for up to 30 days to allow each of your subscribed devices to download them within locally within that timeframe, then would be deleted.
    • TheJoeMan 3y ago
      And when you are a celebrity who gets their icloud hacked, or the feds file a warrant, there’s no photos for Apple to give.
  • n42 3y ago
    I lost a couple years of photos of my life to this stupid thing, because it wasn't very clear to me that photos were only kept around for 30 days