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Backing up photos to iCloud.
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iOS 8 introduced "iCloud Photo Library (beta)", which if you turn it on it replaces your Camera Roll and "My Photo Stream", and lets you store any photo in iCloud at full resolution and lower resolution copies on your iOS device. You can read about it here:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6378
One concern though is that photos stored this way count against your iCloud capacity (5 GB free, by default) whereas "My Photo Stream" and any Shared Photo Streams do not. Keep that in mind since this is what Apple ultimately wants -- to sell you more iCloud space, which is not expensive at $1/month for 20 GB:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201238
Personally I'd stay away from this for now and continue using Dropbox until Apple works out the kinks, since I don't think this is fully cooked (hence the 'beta' indicator).
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6378
One concern though is that photos stored this way count against your iCloud capacity (5 GB free, by default) whereas "My Photo Stream" and any Shared Photo Streams do not. Keep that in mind since this is what Apple ultimately wants -- to sell you more iCloud space, which is not expensive at $1/month for 20 GB:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201238
Personally I'd stay away from this for now and continue using Dropbox until Apple works out the kinks, since I don't think this is fully cooked (hence the 'beta' indicator).