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Does everyone use Photostream?

LOVE photostream. I love that I or my wife can take pics and they are viewable as soon as you are connected to wifi. (Might work over cellular also?)
It is also great that it keeps them separated by month when they appear on my mac. I no longer have to manually organize and transfer to my mac.

It's also nice to know that if my phone is ever lost/stolen/destroyed. All my pics are safe back at home on my mac/ipad/wife's iphone.

It's also nice if you want to free up space on your phone, you can just delete all the photos since they are already backed up :)
 
Photostream saved my butt last fall on a trip to NYC. Somehow my camera roll got corrupted and I wasn't able to view or take any more pictures on the phone.

Luckily, photostream had all my pictures from that trip saved and I was able to reset my phone to clear out the camera roll so that I could continue taking pictures. Then I was able get the photos on my iPad in the hotel that night and my computer when I got back home.
 
Brigrat said:
I'm pretty sure it keeps them for a year, not 30 days.
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From http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/photo-stream.html

1000 of your latest photos. With you all the time.

iCloud manages your Photo Stream efficiently so you don’t run out of storage space on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. If you have Photo Stream enabled on your iOS device, every single photo you take appears in a special Photo Stream album that holds your last 1000 photos. You can delete any photos you don’t want from the Photo Stream.1 To touch up a photo or keep a favorite shot permanently, simply save it to your Camera Roll. iCloud stores new photos for 30 days, so you have plenty of time to connect your iOS device to Wi-Fi and make sure you always have your most recent shots handy.
 
MrGimper said:
From http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/photo-stream.html

1000 of your latest photos. With you all the time.

iCloud manages your Photo Stream efficiently so you don’t run out of storage space on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. If you have Photo Stream enabled on your iOS device, every single photo you take appears in a special Photo Stream album that holds your last 1000 photos. You can delete any photos you don’t want from the Photo Stream.1 To touch up a photo or keep a favorite shot permanently, simply save it to your Camera Roll. iCloud stores new photos for 30 days, so you have plenty of time to connect your iOS device to Wi-Fi and make sure you always have your most recent shots handy.
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So Photostream uses what for data? meaning it obviously doesnt hit your iCloud quota. Are they just giving you that space?
 
RipeRetina said:
From my experience using photostream, it doesn't matter where the 'icloud agent' is installed. When you delete the photo from camera roll & photostream, it'll delete on any device that uses photostream. Thats been my experience anyways.
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If you delete from camera roll before it hits your Photostream (your device needs to be connected to WIFI and left for a while), then yes, it won't hit your other devices or computer via iCloud agent.

Also the case if you delete from Photostream but the key is to not delete photos from there if you want to keep them. :)

Just make sure your devices update to Photostream via WIFI before you delete your camera roll, that's all.
 
I use it everyday. It's the best way (for me anyways) to upload my photos to iPhoto and back them up.

Plus, I use it as an album for pics of our six month old as the screen saver on our Apple TV :D
 
great feature, in addition to auto sync in iphoto. it's a nice addition to the apple tv if you have one for screen saver
 
mattopotamus said:
well most people do not share accounts, and you have to be connected to wifi for them to transfer so not really a data hog
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There have been a ton of posts on here about it. Search around. Most people that posted in them DID share accounts. It was one of the complaints that you couldn't pick what photos went to the stream and what ones didn't.

I thought it pushed them from the phone over cell but it seems it does not. Did that change? When it first came out I thought it was pushing pics from my phone via mobile network.
 
Not really any downsides, I suppose. Thanks for all of the input.
 
It would be great if it worked with Snow Leopard, but since it doesn't, it's useless to me! Come on, Apple, support your own products! Snow Leopard came out in 2009, and so did the iPhone 3GS, which can use Photostream.
 
I use Photo Stream at the moment with my iPhone 4 so that I can keep my pictures on my PC. The only thing I hate about it though is that it keeps two copies of the picture on your phone (one in your Camera Roll and one under Photo Stream), so it phone memory is being used up twice as much.
 
natwister2003 said:
I use Photo Stream at the moment with my iPhone 4 so that I can keep my pictures on my PC. The only thing I hate about it though is that it keeps two copies of the picture on your phone (one in your Camera Roll and one under Photo Stream), so it phone memory is being used up twice as much.
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That is not correct. There is only one copy on your phone. Photo Stream is only a link to the same copy that is stored in camera roll.
 
stock28 said:
That is not correct. There is only one copy on your phone. Photo Stream is only a link to the same copy that is stored in camera roll.
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My phone says so otherwise.
 

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Ok, someone else will need to comment. I was under the impression it was as I said. Your phone says otherwise. :confused:
 
MuddyPaws1 said:
There have been a ton of posts on here about it. Search around. Most people that posted in them DID share accounts. It was one of the complaints that you couldn't pick what photos went to the stream and what ones didn't.

I thought it pushed them from the phone over cell but it seems it does not. Did that change? When it first came out I thought it was pushing pics from my phone via mobile network.
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It will show in the photo stream album once you take the picture, but it won't actually sync until you are connected to wifi.
 
natwister2003 said:
My phone says so otherwise.
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You might have Shared Streams as well ... My Photostream and Shared Photostreams DO NOT share the same copy so you will see extra overhead ...

Based on the same logic, I believe Shared Photostreams DO NOT have an expiry unless you delete them manually
 
thekb said:
So ... is there a difference between Dropbox and Photostream?
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Yes. Photostream automatically loads your pics onto your computer. Dropbox doesn't.

I love Photostream. However, as a PC user, every few months the iCloud Control Panel (which you have to download if you have a PC) stops working and needs to be reinstalled (even if it's the current version). Not a big deal, though, given the convenience. Come home from a trip and as soon as I hit the home wifi pics are on my computer for editing.
 
stock28 said:
Ok, someone else will need to comment. I was under the impression it was as I said. Your phone says otherwise. :confused:
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yeah, they are separate. The easiest way to know this is to delete all of the photos in photostream and it will not regenerate what is in the camera roll.
 
SanjeevRana said:
You might have Shared Streams as well ... My Photostream and Shared Photostreams DO NOT share the same copy so you will see extra overhead ...

Based on the same logic, I believe Shared Photostreams DO NOT have an expiry unless you delete them manually
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I only have one picture in a shared stream with just me in it :eek:
 
The best thing about photostream is my pictures being copied to iphoto on my macs. I will never have to sync my iphone 5 again.

A very close second is shared photostreams. My wife and daughter went on a trip last week and she set up a shared photostream. My iphone alerted me whenever a picture came up; I could "like" and comment on the pictures. It was fantastic. And it worked over cellular data on both ends. Now when I see the Samsung feature that trades pictures by touching phones I chuckle-- shared photostreams works 2000 miles away.
 
Yeah, love Photostream too. Just took photos today and 1,2,3... As soon as i walked through the door at my house i could already see them on my big Mac screen....awsome and smart
 
I love opening iPhoto on my Air and already having there all my photos to put them in their respective event. LOVE IT.
 
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