Apple to Upgrade iCloud with Photo Sharing, Notes and Reminders on iCloud.com

MacRumors · May 14, 2012

The Wall Street Journal briefly reports that Apple is planning to unveil an upgrade to iCloud at next month's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), with one of the main new features being a photo-sharing functionality.

The new features, expected to be announced at Apple's world-wide developer conference beginning June 11, will allow iCloud users to share sets of photos with other iCloud users and to comment on them, these people said. Currently, users can only store one set of photos in iCloud through a feature called Photo Stream, which is designed to sync those photos to other Apple devices, not share them.

Apple also appears to be looking to extend the Photo Stream feature to videos, allowing users to access their personal videos through iCloud. Finally, the report confirms that the Notes and Reminders icons spotted on a beta.icloud.com site late last week will be associated with new functionality to sync those services via iCloud for access through both dedicated apps and the iCloud website.

All of the new iCloud features are expected to make their way into iOS 6, which is also expected to be previewed at WWDC.

Article Link: Apple to Upgrade iCloud with Photo Sharing, Notes and Reminders on iCloud.com

basesloaded190 · May 14, 2012

This is good and all, but I am way more interested to see what iOS 6 will bring us.

jasonxneo · May 14, 2012

Great news! New improvements to icloud are always welcomed

Peace · May 14, 2012

Wouldn't it be nice if you could share playlist's ?

FSMBP · May 14, 2012

Definitely a step in the right direction. I would like to share photos to non-iCloud users though (like MobileMe had it before). It would be nice to give someone a link to view your albums like Flickr.

I currently use Flickr but consolidation of services is key.

applefanDrew · May 14, 2012

basesloaded190 said:
This is good and all, but I am way more interested to see what iOS 6 will bring us.

Isn't it obvious? More iCloud integration! Woo!

Edit:
I'd love iCloud integration with the music app in iOS. Like downcast.

gregwyattjr · May 14, 2012

I'm just glad that iCloud is already working so much better than MobileMe. Hopefully they'll keep it up!

basesloaded190 · May 14, 2012

applefanDrew said:
Isn't it obvious? More iCloud integration! Woo!

Edit:
I'd love iCloud integration with the music app in iOS. Like downcast.

I agree. There is a lot of work that can be done with iCloud when it comes to things like podcasts. If they can implement something like downcast or instacast, that would be awesome.

Stridder44 · May 14, 2012

Add in "comments" and "likes" and an individual iCloud user wall and you have a watered-down version of Facebook (only it's run by Apple). I honestly wouldn't mind something like that.

Mad Mac Maniac · May 14, 2012

WWDC!!!!! Hurry!!

Stridder44 said:
Add in "comments" and "likes" and an individual iCloud user wall and you have a watered-down version of Facebook (only it's run by Apple). I honestly wouldn't mind something like that.

Yeah, Apple has struggled with social, but they have enough services that I think could create a pretty killer iCloud social network... but I'm not really into social networks anymore..

OtherJesus · May 14, 2012

Stridder44 said:
Add in "comments" and "likes" and an individual iCloud user wall and you have a watered-down version of Facebook (only it's run by Apple). I honestly wouldn't mind something like that.

This!!! And then... Apple sneaks in with their own "Instagram" type app for iOS users only... That would be grand

LimeiBook86 · May 14, 2012

Updates to iCloud are always welcome. I hope iPhoto on the Mac is updated to include something similar to Photo Journals on the iPad.

Still I have to finish download all my mobile galleries (photos and videos) from my MobileMe account before it gets deleted next month...

Frobozz · May 14, 2012

I've been looking forward to photo-sharing out of my photo-stream for a long time. It's still the second biggest feature-loss from MobileMe, aside from iDisk.

bushido · May 14, 2012

there is a god, finally photo sharing. photo stream is useless to me as i take many screen shots and temporarily store a lot which i dont need on all of my devices

thenaes · May 14, 2012

Peace said:
Wouldn't it be nice if you could share playlist's ?

It would be awesome if they do a Spotify-like service and the above being one of the features (which Spotify, Rdio, MOG, etc all have as well).

You have to imagine is only a matter of time before they do it. Streaming is gaining some traction.

Mal · May 14, 2012

Wall Street Journal said:
Currently, users can only store one set of photos in iCloud through a feature called Photo Stream, which is designed to sync those photos to other Apple devices, not share them.

This is not true. iPhoto for iOS also allows sharing of photos via the Photo Journals feature introduced recently. It's been widely assumed that iPhoto for OS X would also gain this feature, which would likely be what this is meant to reference. Poorly researched article...

jW

newyorksole · May 14, 2012

Can't wait for June 11th.

Although I hope Apple whips up something else really new and fresh. I think it's expected that Notes/Reminders Syncing & Photo Sharing would be out eventually.

flyingember · May 14, 2012

thenaes said:
It would be awesome if they do a Spotify-like service and the above being one of the features (which Spotify, Rdio, MOG, etc all have as well).

You have to imagine is only a matter of time before they do it. Streaming is gaining some traction.

streaming like itunes match?

http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/

ArtOfWarfare · May 14, 2012

I'm looking forward to note syncing between iOS, iCloud, and Mountain Lion most, I think.

I hope Apple does it just right... the new ML app should work exactly like Stickies has since god knows when (OS 9? Earlier?), except now with syncing, and iOS's app needs to gain several new features like:
- Easy to format text
- Ability to insert a variety of files (images, videos, audio clips,)
- Syncing!

Some ability to easily sort them would be nice, too...

BJMRamage · May 14, 2012

That would be great for updated features to PhotoStream.

And is it, or any iCloud feature a part of AppleTV? That would be grand to watch pictures or videos straight on it via the internet connection (though I guess there is airplay anyway).

I've wanted to show on a larger scale some photos I've taken and thought viewable on a monitor would be terrific.

Small White Car · May 14, 2012

Sounds like they want to take Photo Journals and make them even more Facebook-ish.

Ugh.

Just give us back what MobileMe Galleries did. They were great and no one else offers a product quite as easy to use.

Henriok · May 14, 2012

There are so many features Apple could add to iCloud that it's just silly. I hope they get enough great web app developers to realize their dreams.

nfl46 · May 14, 2012

I am all for enhancements. Come on June 11th!

LimeiBook86 · May 14, 2012

Small White Car said:
Just give us back what MobileMe Galleries did. They were great and no one else offers a product quite as easy to use.

YES!

I agree 100%. The ability to have public and private (via login) galleries was just awesome. It was easy to share online too. Flickr does a good job, but it doesn't have the abilities to share a private (login required) album to a select group.

gwelmarten · May 14, 2012

Photo sharing - excellent. Not sure about the other two though, unless I was going to leave iCloud.com open all day.

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