HT201077 Shared Photo Stream Limit reported incorrectly

When trying to create a new shared photo stream, on-screen message says I have reached my limit of 100. I actually have around 50 and don't want to eliminate one to make room for a new one. iPhoto 9.4.3, Mavericks.

i suggest to upgrade to iPhoto 9.5.1. There was a very short time, when iCloud supported only 50 Shared Streams in iPhoto and Aperture. I don't remember, in which version this changed back to 100 Shared Photo Streams, either 9.4.5, or 9.5.1, but updating should fix your problem.

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HT201077 Shared Photo Streams do not upload full sized photos!

Oh boy, so it seems that Apple's "optimized for your device" policy with photos has reared its ugly head again (PLEASE, just give us an option for optimizing the size or leaving it the original size like you do for compressing songs to 128kps on our devices!!!!)! The addition of Shared Photo Streams seemed a godsend to me, as prior to iOS 6, my wife's iPhone was stuck in this iCloud ID ghetto, where her device's main account was mine so that we shared the same Photo Stream. This way, when I went into Aperture on the Mac to process and import photos to our home library, all of our mobile pictures were in one place. This came with the consequence that the other "main" iCloud features, such as (inexplicably) Safari syncing, were unusable to her as they were from my personal settings. So once shared Photo Streams came about, I thought "Perfect! Now I can just share all of my photos to her iCloud ID, and then all of our combined pictures will show up in Aperture!" The problem is that, when I looked at the pictures on the Mac from the shared photo stream, they only were available at the "optimized" 3 megapixel resolution for iPhone, not the original 8 megapixel pictures are the photos from the main iCloud ID ones are. This is a huge deal for two reasons, 1. I can't import and process these pictures for saving permanently they're more than HALF the original resolution, 2. Anyone that I share photos to, friends, family, who want to maybe save those to their computer for printing and whatnot, are ALSO stuck with a halfbaked low resolution file!
I did have the a-ha idea, that perhaps if I shared photos from Aperture on my mac to my wife's Photo Stream, perhaps it would then share the full resolution photo as that's what Aperture gets from iCloud's servers. Alas, no, still the shared photo stream only gets the compromised file. There has GOT to be a way for the full resolution pics to be shared, otherwise the service is nearly useless to me! As far as I knew, shared photostreams just link to the original files, so it's not like this will take up any more space on Apple's servers. If someone has a solution, let me know!
The only other solution is to allow the use of more than one Photostream account on a Mac with Aperture. I feel that this is a no-brainer, and a little silly. Either you provide family style iCloud accounts for uses like Photo Stream, or you accept that every iOS user in a family will have their own Photo Stream. This means that they need to be able to be accessed on the same family computer.

I have this same issue except with iPhoto. We each have our own computers and I thought the shared photostream would allow us to each have all the photos, but they aren't full sized.

HT201077 Shared Photo Stream

Can I add photos to a shared photo stream from someon else other than myself?

No, at the present time only the originator of the shared photo stream can add or delete photos. If you would like to see this changed in a future update you can let Apple know here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html.

HT201077 Shared Photo stream to iPhoto

I have shared photo streams that I can see on my phone & iPad, but they aren't showing up in iPhoto. All of my settings appear to be correct, but I'm not seeing the individual streams, nor any photos that were shared with me.

what version of iPhoto and of the OS? Exactly doing? See - http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/ - for FAQ and trouble shooting hints
LN

Cannot create another shared photo stream - 50 shared photo stream limit?

Hi - I'm getting this error message when trying to create a new photo stream in Aperture:
I've deleted a few photo streams and I'm still getting the error.
Also, when I look at the Photo Stream Limits Apple posted I don't see any mention of this limitation. What am I missing?

I can confirm the problem: The same message, as soon as I try to add stream no. 51.
But for me it works to delete one of the streams. I could replace it by a new stream without problems.
I tried this with MacOS X 10.8.4 and 10.8.5, Aperture 3.4.5.
The limit seems to be 50 streams.
I've deleted a few photo streams and I'm still getting the error.
Have you waited for the deletion to be synced with iCloud? Or you may have hit another limit. For me the replacing of Photo streams is working well, but the limit of 50 streams is disappointing.

Do shared photo streams have a cache limit or revolving cache?

I stopped using shared photo streams a few months ago because I noticed that the photos were stored locally on my phone and in iCloud. When I checked my storage usage in settings I noticed that 500mb+ was taken up by the shared photo stream storage. I have since started using Flickr, but miss the convenience of shared photo streams to create quick albums.
Does anyone know if there is a revolving cache that limits the data that shared photo streams store on a device? If shared photo streams start to replace its own data after 500mb I'd be happy to give up that space for convenience.
Does anyone know if there is a cache limit to shared photo streams, and if so, what that limit might be, and if it is revolving?

All photos that you want to share to a stream have to be kept on your device as well for syncing with iCloud. There are limits to how many photos you can share to the shared streams, however. See:
iCloud: Photo Stream limits

HT201077 I changed my apple id and now I don't have access to my shared photo streams.

I thought they were gone, but I got an Apple TV for Christmas and can see the shared photo streams on there, along with all of the pictures. How can I get the shared streams back on my phone and iPad? I'm signed in with the same (new) apple id on the tv, iPhone, and iPad. I want to add pictures to the stream and not lose all the comments already placed and have to re-invite people.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Photostream in the cloud only keeps photos from the last 30 days (subject to a 1,000 photo limit). When photostream syncs the photos to your device they will stay there until deleted, which means you may well have more photos in your photostream album on your device than there are in photostream in the cloud.
The consequence of this is that if you turn photostream off and on again on your device (or enable it for the first time), it will only be populated with photos from the last 30 days, which may not be all the photos that were previously in the photostream album on that device.

HT201077 Can I share all my photos with my wife without having to constantly add photos to the shared photo stream?

My family has an imac where we have a family photo library in iphoto. The iphoto library is under my wife's profile. My wife and I each have an iphone 4S. I'd like all the photos my wife and I take on our iphones to automatically upload to the iphoto library on my wife's imac account. I've tried a few different ways of doing this and none of them are ideal.
My current solution works, but has some unwanted side effects. Currently, my wife and I use the same main icloud account on our iphones. This would be the perfect solution if it didn't take up the same icloud storage (among other issues).
It'd be nice if you could have 2 photo streams linked to the same iphoto library on a mac. This way both my wife's photo stream and my photo stream would downloand to the same iphoto library. It doesn't appear that iphoto for mac allows this.
I realize I could do this the old fashioned way (outside of photo stream). But, it seems as though there should be a solution that works automatically.
Could there be a solution creating a shared photo stream on my iphone and sharing this photo stream with my wife? I've looked into this but can't see how it would work automatically. It looks like you have to manually add photos to a shared photo stream. I'd like the shared photo stream to update itself to include all photos I take.
Does anybody have a simple solution for this problem?

There is not (yet) an easy solution to use an an iPhoto library with two separate My Photo streams.
It might be easier to take the family photo library out of your wife's account and move it to a shared location, so boh of you can maintain it, see:
iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users
This way, both of you could download automatically to My Photo Straem and your private iPhoto Libary, remove the worst pictures, and then export only the best shots to the shared library. This will make the shared library smaller and at the same time create a backup of the best pictures, and it will ensure that your family will never see a potentially embarrassing photo. Sharing My Photo Stream is really dangerous, because each and any picture you take will be added the PhotoStream, before you can delete it.
As you may have seen at Apple's WWDC keynote presentation the new MacOS X Maverick will bring more sharing options for Photo Streams: Watch the keynote
You may want to wait for the next software generation before doing any major reorgansition.
Regards
Léonie

HT201077 Is it possible to change the owner of a shared photo stream?

Hi
I set up a shared photo stream on my brother in laws phone because I shot some pictures with his phone after my battery died. Now I would like to know if it is possible to change the ownership of this photo stream to me so I can add more people to it from my phone. Or do I just habe to set up a new one?
Thanks

No, the owner cannot be changed.

HT201077 Someone sent me a link to a shared photo Stream but when I click on the icon it does not lead me to the pictures.

Someone sent me an email to look at their shared photo stream....pictures of my new grandson and when I clicked on their link in the email nothing happened...very fustrated....I upgraded to Mountain Lion 10.8.2 and made sure that I have the correct Iphoto....any ideas.

I just tried the link and it is just fine. If the GateKeeper pops up then open Security & Privacy preferences, click on the General tab, set the last radio button to Anywhere.

HT201077 How do I get my shared photo streams from my ipad to my iPhone?

How do I get my photo streams from my ipad to sync to my iphone?

Your iPhone must also be signed into the same iCloud account as the iPad. Then look in Settings/iCloud/Photo Stream and ensure both My Photo Stream and Shared Photo Streams are turned on.

HT201077 How do I change the layout of a shared photo stream website?

Running Mtn Lion, with iPhoto 11, I've created multiple shared photo streams, but when we view them on the website the photos appear in a collage layout. I'd like to change that to either a slide show or to a list where each photo is by itself.

You can't change the collage layout. It's just an indication of what's in the collections of photos. When you click on a photo it will come up full sized and you can scroll thru them with the arrow keys on your keyboard or the cursor.
OT

HT201077 I am having trouble deleting individual photos from my iPad on shared photo streaming.

I am having trouble deleting individual photos on Shared Photo Streaming on my iPad 2. There is not a trash can or delete option. If I choose edit on the first page, and I try to delete, the next step is to cancel photo sharing, which I don't want to do.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Youre trying to delete photos from someone else's shared photostream. You can only delete photos that belong to you.

HT201077 Can't join shared photo stream

I have Windows 7 and I got an e-mail with a link to join a shared photo stream.
I've asked the person if he can just e-mail me the pictures, but he says he doesn't know how, so it looks like I have to deal with all this stuff. So...
I created an apple ID. I installed iCloud Control Panel 2.1. I checked the box in iCloud CP next to Photo Stream (and also both boxes in the Photo Stream options). I signed in to iCloud with my Apple ID. I've closed things and restarted my computer and tried eveything else I can think of, but still when I click on the "Join this Photo Stream" link in the e-mail I just get taken to the page that tells me how to set things up.
So what am I doing wrong? Do I need to have iTunes or some specific photo viewer installed or something too? I don't see anywhere that it says I do, but I can't get it working the way it is.

I was never able to resolve this problem and like abridge1, there was no shared photo streams in Windows Explorer, just My Photo Stream.
I've since uninstalled iCloud Control Panel, so I can't test the theory out, but I wonder if the problem was that the invitiation to join the photo stream was sent before I had created an Apple ID and/or installed iCloud Control Panel. Maybe if the invitation was sent again it would have worked.
Instead I asked the person who made the photo stream to recreate it but this time check the box that gives you a URL so that anyone can access the pictures without any special software. Much easier.

HT201077 iPad (below iPad2)...invite to an IOS 6 Shared Photo Stream.

iPad (not IOS 6 compatible)
Received an invite for IOS 6 Shared Photo Stream.
iPad is setup for iCould and Photo Stream.
Cannot see shared Photo Stream.
Same problem in Windows Based PC and Mac
No problem in iPhone
What is the secret?

The iPhoto for iOS forum is here
https://discussions.apple.com/community/app_store/iphoto_for_ios
Regards
TD

HT201077 Shared Photo Stream Limit reported incorrectly

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