Apple going to permanently delete photos in July - here's how to save your data
Last updated on: 03 July,2023 09:51 am
'My Photo Stream is scheduled to be shut down on July 26, 2023'
(Web Desk) – Apple has announced deleting an entire photo album from your iPhone by July 26 as it is set to shut down its My Photo Stream.
My Photo Stream offered free storage for several years and an alternative to iCloud Photos. If you are a iPhone user, you should immediately take action to save your photos before they were permanently deleted by the company.
“My Photo Stream is scheduled to be shut down on July 26, 2023,” the tech giant said, adding: “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.
The company has urged the users to shit to iCloud Photos 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
Open Photos and tap Albums.
Tap My Photo Stream > Select.
Tap the photos that you want to save, then tap the Share button > 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.