Is photo stream wifi only?

If so, am I wrong for thinking its a big hassle for nothing?
1. take photos with iphone
2. get home and enable wifi on iphone
3. turn on Mac at home
4. Launch iphoto on Mac
5. Wait for photos to appear in Photo Stream
What am I missing?
Thanks

Apparently it is because I was having trouble getting photos from my iPhone onto my MBP. Read your post, enabled my home WIFI on the iPhone and they are now transferring using Photo Stream.

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That's possible if he didn't connect to a WiFi hotspot after taking them. I don't think the "Personal" Photo Stream uploads over Cellular, unless they changed it since the last time I used it.
If that's the case, then the photos likely didn't upload to Photo Stream and are stuck on the phone.
And you're not going to be able to get them back, either.

I have deleted my photos but have icloud. when i log into icloud it doesnt give me an option to view these photos at all. my photo stream is only showing photos from another iphone in the house. i am unsure if i do a restore from back up if this will work

I have deleted my photos but have icloud. when i log into icloud it doesnt give me an option to view these photos at all. my photo stream is only showing photos from another iphone in the house. i am unsure if i do a restore from back up if this will work. i really dont want to lose these photos but i am very unsure of what to do to resolve. can anyone please help?
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If you had Photo Stream enabled with your iCloud account settings on the iPhone, photos in the Camera Roll should have been transferred to your photo steam automatically when the iPhone was connected to an available wi-fi network.
Your photo stream is not available when logging in with your iCloud account with a browser on a computer.
Why were the photos in the Camera Roll deleted?
Photos/videos in the camera roll are included with your iPhones backup. If your iPhone's backup has not been updated since the photos were deleted from the camera roll, you can try restoring your iPhone from the backup.

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Can anyone tell me how to correct an issue I'm having between our iMac/iPhoto and Photo Stream... I scanned in about 500 photos of the family history and nammed each file with a descriptive text. However, when I import the photos to the Photo Stream, I only see "Scan 893.jpg" even though iPhoto clearly shows "Bill's Birthday". I've loaded and re-loaded, still only get a Scan Number in Photo Stream. In iPhoto I don't even notice a scan # unless I hover the curser over the Info box where "Bill's Birthday" is clearly displayed, an after a few seconds the "Scan 893.jpg" shows up.
When I started this little project to share with the family, I actually notice the scan numbers coming in only, I had been putting details in the Description sections. I played around with the File Name/Title and got it to come through the Photo Stream and Apple TV, so I thought I had it resolved... but now none of my family can see the descriptions. When I look at my own copy of the Photo Stream through iPhoto, I only see Scan Numbers also.
Thanks!

Photo Stream only uses the file name, not the title. The title only exist in iPhoto. To get the title to be used in Photo Stream once must export the file out of iPhoto via the File ➙ Export ➙ File Export menu with the option File Name - User Title option. Then import the new photos and add them to the Photo Stream.
Send a feature request to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html.
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Thanks, I signed out of iCloud and then back in, on both of my Windows 7 PCs -- desktop and laptop -- and it had no effect. I'm totally confused. Here are my four iCloud devices along with the number of photos each displays for My Photo Stream (I only have one Apple ID):
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How do I get Photo Stream to only import photos from my phone and not push photos to my phone.

Hi
Just purchased an Imac (first time mac user) and imported all my photos from my PC. I have been using photo stream on my phone and ipad and like it. The problem is, as far as I can tell, that I have added thousands of photos to the Imac and it now consider those to be new additions. It is sharing those photos to my phone and Ipad and filling both up very quickly. Is there a way that I can only stream photos from the phone to Iphoto on my imac and not from the imac to the phone? I realize that in 30 days, this should correct itself, but for the time being it is a huge hassle. Im sure there is some setting in iphoto that will alleviate my problem

If you have a mac....
launch iPhoto
click the word "iPhoto" beside the apple, and select "preferences / photo stream"
what synces, is listed here
uncheck what you desire, and simply close iPhoto. It will save the changes
Also......
Click the apple / system prefences / iCloud - if you wish to stop "photo stream" completely, you can uncheck it here.
Photo Stream FAQ - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486.

HT201317 I can't find my original photo stream pictures, only the more recent ones.

I can't find my original phot stream pictures, only the more recent ones. How do I recover them?

That's because photo stream photos only remain in iCloud for 30 days, even though your last 1000 photos will remain on your devices until deleted.
If you still have the older photos on your phone, you can stream them to your PC by adding them to a shared photo stream and inviting yourself as a subscriber (see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864). Or, if they are still in your camera roll on your phone you can import them using your usb cable as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083.
If they aren't on your phone any more but were in the camera roll when it was last backed up, restoring the backup should recover them.

Shared iCloud Photo Streams - "read only" ?

I am looking for a setting in iPhoto or iCloud so that the people that I have invited only have the right to view my shared album but not to add or delete photos.
This kind of setting is possible with the shared calendars and it would be in my opinion useful for the shared photo stream as well. Is there a setting that I missed? Am I the only one looking for this feature?

You set that option in each shared photo stream individually, when you create the Shared Photo Stream.
You cannot change it for existing streams - only delete the stream and recreate it without the option "Subscribers can post". The screenshot is for Shared Photo Streams in iPhoto on the Mac, but the corresponding Shared Albums created on iOS devices have a similar option, when you create them.

2 photo stream but only 1 icloud account.

Hi,
I've 2 photo streams on my iphone but I've only ever signed in with 1 apple ID. How do I go about deleting the one that's not in use? Thanks.
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Yup. I've got a camera roll and 2 photo streams. 1 updates, the other just doesn't seem to. Not sure what i did to end up with the 2 accounts. Tired switching off photo stream on iCloud but only 1 disappears.

My photo streaming has only streamed 24 picture?

My photo streaming on my apple tv just streamed 24 pictures, is that all it does? If not how do I get it to stream more?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
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I have over 1400 pictures in my Flikr photo stream - seems only 500 cycle thru

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Hi CSURAM47!
Here is an article with the contact details for Flickr so that you can continue to troubleshoot this issue:
Apple TV: Third-party content provider information
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4799
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities!
Cheers,
Braden

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I have an imac and a macbook pro. I'm logged into the same icloud account on each, and shared photo streams is on. On my macbook only one of the photo streams that I have shared with others shows up under the "My Photos" section. All of the streams I am subscribed to from others are there. All streams are vsiible on my ios devices (if that is even relevant.)
I only have shared photo streams enabled, (I don't use the My Photo Stream, as I don't want all of my pictures from my iphone on my computers).
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I have two user accounts set up on both macs. One for me, one for my wife. Our iPhoto drive is stored on an external hard drive so that we can both access it and when we are logged in have our own photo streams. (we have different icloud accounts). It does show under "Web" in the left column two photo streams, but only the top one is actually clickable.

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TS3989 Only some of the photos I have taken on my iPhone appear in the photo stream on my iPad even thou they were taken at the same time. Why is this and how can I import the other photos from my iPhone to my iPad?

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My photo stream is not working correctly. only importing some..help?

my photo stream is only importing some of my photos...settings all seem to be correct..any advise?

I'd advise you to provide details so we do not have to make wild guesses
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Aperture 3.2.3 displays only 1000 pictures in photo stream

I updated the software to 3.2.2 then to 3.2.3 and performed repair of the database but Aperture continues to display only 1000 pictures in photostream

That's not quite true: on the Mac or PC, Photo Stream is supposed to store every image ever uploaded to the Photo Stream. At least on my Mac, Aperture creates a dedicated Photo Stream project for each month and downloads the pictures from the Photo Stream to the respective project.
Exactly - that is the confusion: These projects are part of the Aperture Library imported from the Photo Stream, and only are created if you activate auto import. They are not part of the Photo Stream.
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