A few questions about My Photo Stream, Photos app, and iCloud.

Hello

1. No

2. Make them on the Mac, then sync the albums you want to the iPhone.

3. No, best to do that from the Mac.

4. True, the Photo Stream will hold photos, up to 1000 or up to 30 days

The Photos from the Photo Stream are downloaded to your device or Mac, they are there till you delete them.

Lastly. I believe the Library is from using the iCloud Photo Library.

Hope that helps

The photos in the Photo Stream will be queued to copy to a device, Mac or PC for 30 days.

After 30 days that photo will no longer be copied using the Photo Stream.

Even after the 30 days the picture(s) will remain on a given device or computer until you delete it from **That** device or computer

Hope that helps

I'm probably just as confused, but here is how I interpret what it says at My Photo Stream FAQ - Apple Support

Photo Stream is not a permanent storage proposition. Each photo is held in Photo Stream (on Apple's servers) for a maximum of 30 days. If you have 24 pictures in your Photo Stream now then whatever else happens those 24 pictures won't be there in 30 days time. Your devices each hold a rolling collection of a 1,000 pictures. The most recent 1,000 images stay on your device even when Apple's servers have dumped their copies after the 30 day limit.

I have an iPhone and an iPad. Usually any picture I take on one shows up on the other as long as both devices are on Wi-Fi. Once everything is synced up I see the same collection of images in Photo Stream on both devices, but each device has its own Camera Roll. When the 1,001st image is uploaded to Photo Stream each device should discard its oldest image from the Photo Stream collection, but not its Camera Roll if taken on that device. (You can however clean the camera roll as and when you transfer images to a computer, but this is a separate issue).

As long as you have a computer set up to automatically download your Photo Stream (e.g. using iPhoto or Photos on a Mac or the iCloud Control Panel on a Windows PC) then all of your regular pictures should get captured permanently. Bust mode and video footage is slightly more complicated, but the originals won't be deleted from the camera roll of your device automatically so you still have a chance to connect to a computer and transfer the images manually. I would suggest that you should do this periodically, and backup your pictures before wiping the camera roll.

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Turning off Photo Stream will affect content added to the stream from other devices. The Camera Roll on each device should remain unchanged, but as ever the sooner these are downloaded to a computer and backed up the better. If you enable iPhoto or Photos to collect images from your Photo Stream then this should happen automatically, though this won't capture all burst mode photos or videos over a certain size. Turning off Photo Stream on your Mac won't delete images that have already been imported to the selected library.

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The information is correct, but applies to iOS devices only. Your Mac is not an iOS device. So anything captured on the Mac via Photo Stream should remain.

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barneyhairball wrote:

Oh; feeling a bit dopey now. I only use a mac and an iPhone. Just one more question to clarify. Supposing I had an iPad, is this what this paragraph is all about? If I turn off MPS on it or my iPhone, then media in the All Photos tab and the Photos tab will be removed on these devices only? But my mac will be okay?

That is how I understand it, yes.

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You're welcome. 🙂

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