I really liked My Photo Stream. It made my blogging and writing workflow so much easier. I would take a photo on my phone and then using My Photo Stream I would be able to use the photo on my iPad or my Mac. So I was quite disappointed that Apple have closed it down.
According to Apple the solution is to move to iCloud Photos.
I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do that as I knew I would need to upgrade my iCloud+ subscription to the 2TB tier.
So for a week or two I tried doing stuff without My Photo Stream and without using iCloud Photos.
After a while it was apparent that this wasn’t working. So at the beginning of July I upgraded my iCloud+ subscription and on my home iMac I turned on iCloud Photos.
I knew it would take some time to sync my photo library to iCloud as I have over 70,000 photographs in the library.
I did initially have some teething issues, so had to restart the iMac and Photos a few times, but so far it appears to be working as needed.
I also turned iCloud Photos on, on my iPhone to check it was working.
The photographs I take on my iPhone are now available in iCloud Photos on my other devices.
I do quite like the ability to access all my photographs on my iPhone, whereas with My Photo Stream it was only the last 1000 photos.
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