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Video Overview of Shared Photo Streams in iOS 6

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One of Apple's key new features in iOS 6 is shared Photo Streams, giving users the ability to share sets of photos via iCloud with friends and family. Shared Photo Stream albums can push photos automatically to friends' iOS 6 devices and Macs, with the albums also viewable on Apple TV or the web, and users can leave comments on individual photos shared through the feature.

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Insanely Great Mac has posted a new video overview showing how shared Photo Streams work, from inviting users to creating an album to viewing albums on the web.

Apple released the second beta of iOS 6 to developers yesterday, with a public release scheduled for this fall, presumably alongside new iPhone hardware.

Article Link: Video Overview of Shared Photo Streams in iOS 6
 
Article Link
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/26/video-overview-of-shared-photo-streams-in-ios-6/
Weird I am running second beta of iOS 6 and dont have the button/option to turn on/off Shared Streams :'(
 

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Can only guess that this will come to OS X in iPhoto and Aperture as a replacement for Mobile Me Galleries?

-Kevin
 
kbmb said:
Can only guess that this will come to OS X in iPhoto and Aperture as a replacement for Mobile Me Galleries?

-Kevin
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I have been waiting for this since Apple announced the end of Mobile Me. Looks like a great update.
 
Yep - this looks great. I prefer this type of sharing with a small group of people than all over Facebook.
 
hopefully this either still won't count against iCloud or they offer double the storage free and for same pricing.

if this is free it will encourage others to use it, rather than simply tweeting/facebooking/instagraming/etc.
 
ncc1701d said:
Yep - this looks great. I prefer this type of sharing with a small group of people than all over Facebook.
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Yep. However there's still room for improvement. Like a way to link it up to say your friends from things like game center or find my friends so you don't have to email them every time when you create a new shared stream. Or a way to have the streams appear on the webpage but only for when one of those friends logs into their iCloud account etc. Another item is the comments, how about giving us some control over if anyone can, if only friends can, who can see the comments etc. And what about downloading. I might want to share some photos but I don't necessarily want others to be able to have a copy.

These are the types of things I hope are being worked on. As well as being able to view, edit and download our private photo stream from off the web
 
This is actually a useful feature...can't really say that much for the rest of iOS6.
 
Mike Oxard said:
Looks good on Safari on the mac, though a bit slow to load (same as MM galleries were!) There's no way to comment, have you turned that off?
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I noticed the slowness too, but always find Apple online stuff is slow!

Yeah, again I noticed you couldn't comment, there isn't an option to turn it on/off (I don't think) - I made a comment on my iPhone and it's not showing up on the gallery. You can also 'like' pictures!
 
BJMRamage said:
hopefully this either still won't count against iCloud or they offer double the storage free and for same pricing.
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Photostream is already free and not counted in your 5GB so this won't likely be counted either. However it is limited to 1000 photos and that will likely stay, the only difference being that shared photos are skipped over when photos start dropping off. So if you share a lot of photos you could find your private stream lacking in utility unless you have your computer up and running to grab and save the photos (through say iPhoto's auto import) all the time.

Because of this possibility it would be nice if they would allow folks to pay to increase their stream. I know a lot of folks that would have no issue with paying an extra $5-10 a year per additional 500 photos in their stream. Especially if they prorate upgrades so that everything renews together. Either that or letting you choose to use part of any additional storage to increase your stream allowance. You paid $20 a year to grab 10 more GBs and let you decide to give half of that to your Stream. they are calculating that at roughly 5MB per photo so that's another 1000 photos roughly. That would make a lot of folks very happy.

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Mike Oxard said:
Looks good on Safari on the mac, though a bit slow to load (same as MM galleries were!) There's no way to comment, have you turned that off?
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You can't comment off the web version it seems. Only the iOS
 
kirky29 said:
Looks pretty cool actually,
Here's mine I just test-created :)

https://www.icloud.com/photostream/#v2;3;64205033-E758-451E-8D54-60E50A6398DA;272071122
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This looks very similar to the Photo Journals that iPhoto for iOS creates.
iPhoto seems to give you more control of the layout of your images. As well as add other elements. The homepage" created by iPhoto has the bookshelf motif to display multiple photo journals.
On the other hand from what I have just seen on Kirk's site, the shared photo stream laid out in more of a timeline fashion. I didn't see the link to leave comments, but from the demo it looks like you will be able to leave comments.

Questions:
So will iCloud (web portal) have a place to keep track of Photo Streams that people have shared to me?
Will new versions of iPhoto/Aperture also sync shared photo streams?
Will the same two questions above be true for Photo Journals?

I can't wait to see how all of this will be unified into one user interface.

Here is a link to a photo journal for comparison.

https://www.icloud.com/journal/#1;CAEQARoQg2-rt2CCdqUlPW_tB_A7-A;ED3A7F31-3AAD-4187-B5CF-E4E2784FF0CE


-Luis
 
kirky29 said:
I noticed the slowness too, but always find Apple online stuff is slow!

Yeah, again I noticed you couldn't comment, there isn't an option to turn it on/off (I don't think) - I made a comment on my iPhone and it's not showing up on the gallery. You can also 'like' pictures!
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I think yur stream loaded pretty quick. Cycled through your album with no delays :)
 
kbmb said:
Can only guess that this will come to OS X in iPhoto and Aperture as a replacement for Mobile Me Galleries?

-Kevin
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Probably so.... Right now it breaks the photo stream to the Mac.

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SteveLV702 said:
Weird I am running second beta of iOS 6 and dont have the button/option to turn on/off Shared Streams :'(
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It is still there on mine.... I turned it on in Beta 1 though.
 
CplBadboy said:
I think yur stream loaded pretty quick. Cycled through your album with no delays :)
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Ahh, I never have good speed with anything Online Apple services, the iCloud website for me is painfully slow! - I'm hoping your connection is better than mine! 8000Kbps down - 450Kbps up.

Also, should this be available for iPad? It's not showing up on mine....don't know if it's just a bug and not showing...or if it's not made for iPad yet?
 
me8snack said:
This looks very similar to the Photo Journals that iPhoto for iOS creates.
iPhoto seems to give you more control of the layout of your images. As well as add other elements. The homepage" created by iPhoto has the bookshelf motif to display multiple photo journals.
On the other hand from what I have just seen on Kirk's site, the shared photo stream laid out in more of a timeline fashion. I didn't see the link to leave comments, but from the demo it looks like you will be able to leave comments.

Questions:
So will iCloud (web portal) have a place to keep track of Photo Streams that people have shared to me?
Will new versions of iPhoto/Aperture also sync shared photo streams?
Will the same two questions above be true for Photo Journals?

I can't wait to see how all of this will be unified into one user interface.

Here is a link to a photo journal for comparison.

https://www.icloud.com/journal/#1;CAEQARoQg2-rt2CCdqUlPW_tB_A7-A;ED3A7F31-3AAD-4187-B5CF-E4E2784FF0CE


-Luis
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I have two phones that share their photo streams with each other. Works very well. You can leave comments via IOS6 on the phone I would assume you can do so with whatever device / App it ends up being shared with.
 
ayala421 said:
This is actually a useful feature...can't really say that much for the rest of iOS6.
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Do Not Disturb is my favorite feature. Well thought out. You can turn it on manually, schedule it to turn on and off at certain times. (Needs to have a weekday / weekend setting) It has a setting to allow a group you specify to ring though or you can have it set to none.

The best item which can be on or off is the "Emergency ring though...named repeated calls. If the same number calls you twice within 3 minutes the second call rings through.
 
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