Confused about Photo Stream

So, I have Photo Stream turned on my iPhone, and i enabled it on my macbook on iPhoto, I see the pictures from my phone there. So does that mean I can delete the photos from my iPhone photo stream now? Or how do I permanently save the photos from iPhoto so they're not deleted?

Hi Carrasco 95,
If you have questions about Photo Stream, you may find the following article helpful:
iCloud: Photo Stream FAQ
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486
Regards,
- Brenden

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Confused about photos/shared/albums folder

Hi there,
I have an iPhone 5 iOS 8. under my photos: I have the collection of photos taken to date. under the Shared tab (iCloud photo sharing), I have activity, and another album; under the Albums tab, I have camera roll, my photo stream, videos, events from my mac, faces from my mac, recently deleted, and Last 12 Months from my mac.
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why can't the photos under the Photos tab where collections is found be deleted? I am so confused. It seems like I have multiple copies of the same photo in different folders. Can someone set me straight on what is what. I can't seem to learn about the difference in any of the mac support resources.

Photo Library contains all of your photos except Camera Roll. Because you have only one album with photos (the other is empty) the number of Photo Library equals to "for itunes" album.
846 (camera roll)+788 (Photo Library) are all of your photos that you have in iPhone.
Everything else is a "shortcut" ("for itunes" folder points to Photo Library, "for screen" album may points to Camera Roll or/and Photo Library).
That means that you have only 1634 photos in your iPhone instead of 2536 that iTunes say.
Transfer your Camera Roll to your computer to sync it back later as an album. (like "for itunes").
Empty your Camera Roll (you have to do it from time to time anyway) and un-sync the "for itunes" album and everything else. Try to empty your iPhone from any photo in Photo app.
Check your storage in Settings>General>Usage>Photos and Camera. Slide to delete if it needs.
If everything is correct sync back the "for itunes" and the folder that contains your 846 photos from Camera Roll.
Are there also Videos in your iPhone?
When you sync the "for itunes" folder did you checked the "Include videos" (or something like that) in Photos tab of iTunes sync page?

A better manual? & what about photo stream from Aperture?

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And what about setting up to stream photos from my photos in Aperture? The only options in the menu are Flickr, Mobile Me and to sync. Syncing all my photos would really eat up the HD space! I would rather stream.
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I have a similar problem using photo stream, turned it on the other day after I had been emailing pics from my laptop and then opened mail on my iPad and opened pics which were all high resolution, photos looked great in photos and albums, but a couple of hours later when they had downloaded in photo stream they were pixelated. They also streamed to my iPhone 4 and the same problem there. A couple of months ago I installed iPhoto on my phone and edited a pic that was on my phone and when saved it also pixelated. I'm beginning to think this is maybe the cause of this, because as I have said, these are high res files and look great when viewed through camera roll, photos or albums, it's only the photo stream folder that is affected. Does photo stream down sample images? Doesn't explain why the iPhoto edit on my phone pixelated though. real curious as to why this is happening, maybe just turn photo stream off.

New hard drive and have a question about photo stream.

My hard drive recently crashed. I have a new hard drive and am trying to organize my iphoto again. There are 1,000 photos on my iphone (photo stream) how do I get these onto my mac? My mac only has the last 30 days. Do I have to save each individual photos to the camera roll?

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Why am I getting an error message about photo stream?

Every 10 minutes or so, I keep getting a message saying that my phot stream can't access my account on iCloud. I've never used iCloud, but it says I'm signed in, so why does this message keep annoying me?

You are getting an error message because there is an error.
Knowing wht version of Pages you are using, what template you are attempting to open, and what error message Pages is sending you might help determine why you are getting that specific rror message. Without those, the first sentence above i pretty much all that can be said with any assurance.
Regards,
Barry

I have a question about Photo Stream.

Three iPhones in a family. iPhone 1, 2, 3.
iPhone 2 & 3 share the same Apple ID together which is iPhone 3’s email account
iPhone 1 sends an invite to 2 and 3
iPhone 2 accepts and name of that user displayed on iPhone 1 user is correct
iPhone 3 accepts but name shows up as iPhone 1 user on iPhone 1’s device
A test invite was sent to iPhone 3 from another outside iPhone user and after accepting invite, name still shows up as iPhone 1 user.
I asked iPhone 1 user is he syncs iPhone 3 user to his pc and he said he does but iPhone 3 user has a separate user account on his MAC. (iPhone 2 user doesn’t sync to mac at all)
Would anyone have an idea as to why it is being displayed this way? If I missed something and it is not clear, please let me know. Thanks for your help.

Read through this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4379

Confused about deleting pics on iphone

I know this probably has been answered in a previous thread and have saw some thing that help, but I am still a bit confused about photo stream and photos.
What is the difference from how photos get saved (on an iphone) in photo stream vs. just being stored as memory?
Do they, photos, get stored in the cloud or physically on my phone?
How come when I go to delete photos on my iphone I get a message that warns it will delete on all my devises to include my mac?
When I deleted a few pics from my iphone they got deleted from my mac. In a nutshell how can I ensure that my mac will permantly store all of my pics regardless if I delete them from my iphone?
Thanks very much

ok ill try to help
photostream stores the pics you take for 30 days. if you delete them from here removes from all devices.
camera roll is the pics you take. can be deleted from device and only device. to save these import to your computer see.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083
your photo library is imported from computer to phone. you can delete these from device they have to be synced off
Peace, Clyde

What exactly is photo stream?

I have just upgraded to lion on my iMac and had already brought my iphone and ipad up to iso5. I turned on photo stream and a few other things in icloud, like notes, etc, but not contacts or book marks, I don't want all of them from my imac on my phone so I am waiting to see if Apple will change this in a future version.
I open iphoto and saw a picture I wanted to move on to my iphone. So I dragged it to the photo stream on the side bar of iphoto. When I clicked on photo stream, there were already 12 photos in there. Some were photos I had deleted from iphoto on my imac earlier today. I was suprised to see them there and tried to delete them. They would not delete. So I did a search here and see a LOT of questions on how to delete photos from photo stream, most with no answer. I did find where to reset my photo stream, under my name at the top right of icloud when I logged on to icloud on my iMac. But when I go to my iphone and look in photostream, inside photos, there is no way to delete a photo. Also, in itunes on my iMac, photo stream shows up on the left sidebar under recent, but I cannot delete any photos from there. Like others, there are photos in photo stream that I don't want.
Then as I think about it, I am wondering, if we are all a bit confused. Maybe photo stream is JUST a 'pathway' for moving photos between our devices and whatever is in the photo stream, as apples says, sits there for 30 days and then 'falls off' the 'pathway' so to speak, and that the pictures 'live on' in each of our devices, ie the photo library on our iphone and ipad and in iphoto on our home computer (imac, laptop, etc.) It may be that we are all confusing what photo stream is and is not. If it is just a mechanisim (pathway in my description) for moving photos between devices, then it would make some sense that the photos will not delete. They stay there for 30 days to give us time to move them into folders on the i device or the home computer.
My next question is how do photos get INTO photo stream in the first place? does every photo we take with either the iphone or ipad, go into photo stream? And does it also go into the camera roll?
Michelle

iCloud: Photo Stream
iCloud: Set up Photo Stream
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If I 'Buy More Storage,' can I have more pics in Photo Stream?

Right now, I have all of my pics and videos that are in my iPhoto (7000+) in my MobileMe Gallery so I can access them on my iPhone. Photo Stream says it can only store 1000 pics but If I buy more storage, will I be able to store all 7000+ pics and videos in Photo Stream?
I have also noticed my videos arn't showing up in Photo Stream so I'm assuming it only 'Streams' photos?
If Photo Stream will always stay at 1000 pics no matter how much extra space I buy, does iCloud have a Gallery feature like MobileMe has and I'm just not seeing it?
TL;DR - How do I store more than 1000 photos in iCloud/Photo Stream so I can access from my iPhone?

From what I read after clicking the link to the macword article above, photo stream will only allow an iOS device to view 1000 photos. It didn't touch on photo stream after more storage space is purchased but If you remember where you got your info from, that would help out.
If you're not talking about photo stream, where would I store the photos in iCloud that my iOS device can access them?

If I delete photos from my iPhone photos and photo stream, and they are not in the 'Photo Stream' folder on my PC, do they go to the Recycle Bin on my PC, or disappear altogether?

Hi,
Sorry if this has been covered before.
I deleted some photos from both 'Photos' and 'Photo Stream' using my iPhone. They are not in my 'Photo Stream' folder on my PC, but do they go to the Recycle Bin or just disappear altogehter?
Thanks.

I am afraid not.
Photo Stream is a sync tool and not a backup solution.
If you change the Photo Stream on one device it pushes those changes to all devices.
Here is some more information about Photo Stream:
iCloud: My Photo Stream FAQ

Photo stream

Regarding my previous question about photo stream, the answer Winston Churchill gave was that it will stream pictures that have been uploaded since it was installed. It is not doing that instead it is streaming my really old pictures, which I thought were deleted from iphoto months ago! I think I am going to remove it because it annoys me when I have to constantly delete pictures I don't want and more appear.

It's weird there is a "reset" button then. Oh well... Thanks!

Photo stream, how do I delete globally ?

Hi, I love the idea of Photo Stream, taking photos on my iPhone and they almost immediately appear on my MacBookPro and the wifes iPad, i love it.
But what i cant do with Photo Stream is to DELETE Photos across the board, it seems to me that to remove Photos from each device i have to do it three times, once on each device !!!
Why is that please, unless i am doing something wrong ?
Is there perhaps a MASTER Photo Stream somewhere, 'cause i havent found it yet !
And is there any truth in the rumour that once you get 1,000 photos in Photo Stream the oldest ones get deleted ?.
And what is the official way to BACK UP Photo Stream to save the Photos before they get deleted by the 1,000 limit ?
Tim

I cannot EDIT the above post anymore, so i have to tell you all, that i have now read the instructions, all about Photo Stream.
So i have NOW found the easy way to Backup my Photo Stream, simply by using my MBP, create a folder in finder, goto iPhoto/iCloud, select ALL and Export to the folder just created in Finder. easy peasy.
The instructions also say that Delete a photo stream photo on one device and it IS deleted automatically on all other devices.
So realistically the above Questions are all a load of old TOSH. sorry for wasting your time if you read all of this.
Tim

IPhoto/photo stream

I am new to iMac. I plugged in my iPhone to upload all my trip pictures into an event in iPhoto. Only some of them came and the others seem to be in photo stream album. I wanted to move them from photo stream and put them into an event. I dont think I am understanding photo stream very well.

Hello RossSE,
Thank you for your question. It sounds like you are trying to organize your photos in iPhoto, but Photo Stream has imported some of your photos and you manually imported some photos.
When you enable Photo Stream in iPhoto, photos on the iCloud server are imported to your library in an event for that month by default. My Photo Stream stores up to 1000 photos for up to 30 days, so you may need to connect your iPhone to import videos or photos that did not make it to My Photo Stream because of the 1000 photo limit or the 30 day limit.
You can learn more about Photo Stream here:
My Photo Stream overview
http://help.apple.com/iphoto/mac/9.5/#phtac7ec5f4
If you would like to turn off the automatic import of photos and only manually import photos by connecting your iPhone to the computer, you can disable the automatic import in iPhoto > Preferences > iCloud:
Turn on My Photo Stream in iPhoto
http://help.apple.com/iphoto/mac/9.5/#pht7aaadf50
Alternatively, you can rearrange the photos in Events using the steps in this article:
Move photos between events
http://help.apple.com/iphoto/mac/9.5/#pht6d6094b4
Additionally, you may want organize your photos using Albums. Personally, I prefer organizing my iPhoto library with Albums:
A photo album in iPhoto is just like one you would create with printed photos: It’s a collection of photos you select from your library and arrange in the order you want.
You can create photo albums to:
Focus on a particular subject, such as your favorite nature photos
Group pictures that you want to send to a friend, post on a webpage, or burn to a CD or DVD
Gather a decade of anniversary photos
Find more information about organizing your library using standard Albums or Smart Albums at the following link:
Album overview
http://help.apple.com/iphoto/mac/9.5/#phtf677b8f5
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

Photo streaming sync????

I deleted a few pics on photo streaming b/c I didn't like them but they still showed up on my laptop. Why does this happen?

You're welcome. Something to keep in mind about photo stream is that is should not be used to back up your photos. Photo stream only keeps your photos for 30 days. After that they are deleted from photo stream but will remain on any device that already has them. The issue arises if you ever turn off photo stream, or have to restore your device. When you turn it back on you will only get back the photos that fall within this 30-day window (since the rest are no longer in photo stream).
To be sure you have your photos, regularly import them from your camera roll to your computer as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083. This will, by definition, back up any photos in your photo stream since they originated in your camera roll.

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