Shared Photo Stream Phone Storage

Hi,
If I or a family member share a photo or video to a shared photo stream, is that going to take away storage space on my phone?

I think the iCloud Photo Sharing Photos and Videos are only downloaded and kept on the device until it is near full. Then the shared photos and videos get marked for deletion until the shared photo stream is looked at again.
If the user wants to permanently keep the photos or videos on their device, they will have to save them to their camera roll.

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Available internal storage zero after problem happened with iCloud shared photo stream

after I tired to upload large amount of photos to iCloud shared photo stream(2gb), which is larger than the available internal storage (only 300 mb left ). and then my iPhone stop me from uploading , said that my phone got no sufficient storage available . so, I cancel the upload, but my available internal storage is still zero. I don't know what to do, and I delete the whole (empty) album, which I targeted to upload photo to it. but even after I delete the album, my available internal storage is still zero. it suppose to return my free space(return to 300mb of free space). can any one help me with this ??
i tried to delete apps to free up the space. i tried to delete a few apps and I manage to get back 200 my of free space but after a short while, the available free space go back to zero again...d my phone to be zero available internal storage.
thanks any reply reply reply in advance.

Same problem here.

TS3989 I had photos on my camera roll on my old phone, bought a new one and selected those photos to be a shared photo stream but when I sent it to my wife and opened it on my new phone it says there are no photos shared - these photos are more than 30 da

Just bought a new iPhone 5 and wanted to send pics from my camera roll on my iphone 4 as a shared photo stream to my new phone and my wife's phone.
I selected the pictures and created the photo stream and it showed up on my new phone and she was able to accept invite, but when opened the stream contained 0 photos and a message that says "No Shared Photos"
These pictures were admitedly older than 30 days. Is that the rule that pictures from your camera roll older than 30 days cannot be shared as photo stream?
I apprecaite all guidance on this issue. For those answering - yes everything else photostream wise is connected and working so there's no issue with setup - my question simply is can a user upload photos older than 30 days from the camera roll to a shared photostream?
Thank you

Welcome to the Apple Community.
30 days is only applicable to My photostream and even then it applies from the time they were added not mwhen they were taken (unless it's the same time)
I'd be inclined to restart your wife's phone and see if that helps, otherwise you might try turning photostream off and on again on her phone.
Note: disabling photostream and re-enabling it will result in any photos that are currently in the photostream album on your device, that are older than 30 days old, not being added back.

How do shared photo streams affect iCloud storage? Do they last forever or are the still subject to the 1000 photo/30 day rule?

How do shared photo streams affect iCloud storage? Do they last forever or are the still subject to the 1000 photo/30 day rule?

Stay forever and don't count towards your iCloud storage use.

Do pictures on my shared photo stream count towards storage on my iPhone?

Do pictures on my shared photo stream count towards storage on my iPhone?

Did you ever learn the answer?

Shared Photo Stream Taking Up Storage

In our family we do a shared photo stream every month. It's a great idea and I love being able to see the pictures, video, comments, etc. from all of my family members. It doesn't take up any room on iCloud which is very nice, however it does take up room on the users iPhone. I was wondering if there is a way to unsubscribe or delete the shared album without actually deleting it? I still want access to the shared albums (on the web or something), without having them be completely deleted for everyone else. If not, the albums themselves don't actually take up that much room on my iPhone, so it's okay.

Go to Settings > iCloud > Photos and make sure the options are turned off. If they are on, turn them off.

Shared photo stream storage

Hello all,
Quick question. I see that in the description of photo sharing on apples site they say the following.
All your photos on your Mac or PC
Your computer automatically keeps all the photos that come through your Photo Stream.
I am wondering if someone can confirm that this applies to shared photo streams as well. I.e. will all the photos that others share with me be kept on my computer for good?
Thank you for the help

no shared photo streams do not work the same as PhotoStream -- see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
LN

Why is my shared photo stream taking up space on my iPhone when I have turned off photo sharing?

I have an iPhone 5c with iOS 8.3. It's only an 8GB iPhone, so I only have about 5.2GB of space to use. So I have to be very picky about what stays and what goes on my iPhone. Photos is one of those things that don't stay on my phone long. I have deleted all of my pictures out of my albums (both camera roll and recently deleted) and there can be no photos found in my library. In settings, I turned off all photo sharing capabilities, so I shouldn't be getting shared photos from family members on my phone and stuff. So why does my storage say that shared photo stream is taking up 54.6MB? I would like it to say 0MB. Am I missing something? I've included a couple screenshots to help clarify things. Thanks for your help!

This is what I mean. I'm seeing the 3.9 KB usage for Photo Stream under General>UIsage>Photos and Camera, nothing to do with the storage on iCloud and I have Photo Stream and everything to do with iCloud and photo sharing off. However, I may have had Photo Stream on before for a few weeks before I turned it off long ago. Could that data/used space just be a few photos that were once in Photo Stream before I turned it off if I've had it on before?

I am unable to transfer photos from my camera roll to a shared photo stream.

I have be able to get 297 pics over to a shared photo stream, but it is very temperamental. Ever since I started trying to transfer over photos, my iphone 5 has been ating up. Apps close on there own. I have reset and restarted my phone many many times. I am running out of storage on my phone and I am under the impression that I can keep photos in a shared photostream forever and then delete them on my phone to make more room. Is this true? I have backed up all my photos to my pc, but I like to have them on my phone too. Anyone know how to fix the problem with tranferring photos from camera roll to shared photo stream? Thanks!

Amybeth
Photostream photos are kept in Photostream for 30 days.. it's not really a long term storgae media. It's a temporary storage on your way to a computer storage solution.
http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/photo-stream.html
Cheers

Max # of pictures in a shared photo stream - Data usage?

Is there a limited number of pictures you can put into a shared photo stream. I know with the regular its 1k, is that the limit for the shared ones as well. Or can I create a photo stream with my entire photo library and have it all backed up on icloud.
Seperately how much data does shared photo streams use. Is it essentially downloading/uploading every photo to each device even over cellular connections. Its not a huge deal, but I'd rather not use up my data because a friend dropped 500 pictures of their dog into a shared stream. (But I do like dogs) Also does it take up space on your phone or is it all just held at the cloud level and you are essentially downloading it each time you look at it?

According to Apple's documentation, there's no limit (I still find that hard to accept, but they have said so). You mention using is as a backup - NEVER rely on icloud for backing up photos, ALWAYS sync then to a computer for safekeeping and storage, as you would save photos from a camera. Too many users have lost photos performing restores from an icloud backup.
Apple's docs indicate that shared photo streams do not count towards your icloud storage limit (also hard to believe, but there you go). Friends cannot add photos to your stream, they can only make comments.
icloud stores the photos and downloads them individually when you tap on a thumbnail pic. Note that you have no control over the sorted appearance of the photos.
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/09/20/ios-6-shared-photo-streams/
http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/#photostream

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 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.

Shared photo streams in iPhoto and Apple TV

Why is this proving so difficult for Apple to get right?
All I want to do is create private albums that I can share with family and have them sync back to my Mac so that all I need to do is organise my photos ONCE (i.e. on iPhone or iPad) and see these albums in iPhoto where they are also backed up locally.
I've created a shared photo stream album, shared it with my wife... she can see it on her phone... great.
I look in my iPhoto and there is no sign whatsoever that I've ever created a shared album. Just the main photo stream mess as usual.
Also, I go to my Apple TV and the same thing, just the same "every photo ever" mess.
I've recently taken to using Vimeo because this provides exactly what I need for home video. Create edited video in iMovie for iPad or Mac, then upload it to Vimeo, and share it only with family. I can then view them back on Mac, Apple TV, iPad etc.

http://www.appletvhacks.net/2012/09/24/apple-tv-software-update-5-1-ios-6-releas ed-for-apple-tv-2-and-apple-tv-3/
Apple has just updated the second and third-generation Apple TV software to version 5.1 (build 10A406e). The biggest changes include support for Shared Photo Streams, the ability to switch between iTunes accounts and to send audio content from Apple TV to AirPlay-enabled speakers and devices.
If you still think like updating to 5.1, here are the direct download links:
AppleTV2,1_5.1_10A406e_Restore.ipsw
AppleTV3,1_5.1_10A406e_Restore.ipsw
And here is the full list of new features in Apple TV 5.1:
Shared Photo Streams — Accept invitations for Shared Photo Streams, browse photos and comments, and receive notifications of new content.
AirPlay — Send audio content from Apple TV to AirPlay-enabled speakers and devices (including AirPort Express and other Apple TVs). Also includes the ability to require an onscreen code to use AirPlay with your Apple TV.
iTunes account switching — Save multiple iTunes accounts and switch quickly between them.
Trailers — Search movie trailers. In the United States, see show times for local theaters.
Screen savers — New Cascade, Shrinking Tiles, and Sliding Panels screen savers.
Main menu— Reorder icons on the second page by holding down the select button on the remote.
Subtitles — SDH support for the deaf and hard-of-hearing as well as improvements to viewing and selecting subtitles.
Network configuration — Support for setting up advanced network options using configuration profiles.
Stability and performance — Includes general performance and stability improvements.

Shared Photo Streams not appearing in iPhoto.

I have a few Photo Streams that were recently shared with me. I can access them fine on my iPhone. When I am on my MacBook Air however, these Photo Stream folders are no where to be found.
I followed this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3989 and more specifically double checked these instructions:
I don't see any photos or shared photo streams in the Photo Stream view of iPhoto or Aperture.
Check the following:
From your Mac, choose System Preferences > iCloud, and make sure the Photo Stream checkbox is enabled.
Open iPhoto or Aperture, choose Preferences > Photo Stream.
If you are using iPhoto 9.4 or later, or Aperture 3.4 or later, make sure that both the My Photo Stream and Shared Photo Streams checkboxes are selected. If you'd like all new photos that you've uploaded to your iPhoto or Aperture library to be uploaded to My Photo Stream, make sure that the Automatic Upload checkbox is selected as well.
If you are using iPhoto 9.2.2 through 9.3.2, or Aperture 3.2.3 through 3.3.2, make sure that Enable Photo Stream and Automatic Import are selected.
Make sure your Mac has an an active Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection.
Everything was set up as suggested above.
My Macbook is on iPhoto 9.2.3, with OS 10.7.5
My iPhone is on 6.1.3
Additionally, when i view photos from a shared photo stream folder on my phone and then select to save one of the photos to my Camera roll, the photo is still not syncing to my Photo stream on the Mac.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Larry,
Having a similar issue as the one described by kmacd... I'm trying to set up Shared Photo Streams between my MacBook Pro (Late 2009 13") and my iPhone 4, to essentially use them as streaming albums. Both devices are set up with iCloud with the same account, and both have all settings enabled for Shared Photo Streams, as I can create and modify streams in both. The problem is that when I create a new stream on one, it never shows up on the other! I never receive an invite, which I assume I wouldn't since it's all the same account. Just not sure why the Shared Streams don't sync over multiple devices when the normal My Photo Stream works perfectly fine. Any thoughts?? Thanks!
Hardware/Software Specs:
MacBook Pro 5,5 (Late 2009 13")
OS X Mavericks 10.9.1
iPhoto v9.5.1 (902.17)
Aperture 3.5.1
iPhone 4iOS 7.0.4
Note: I am currently in the process of downloading iPhoto 2.0 for iOS to see if there's any way to access the streams through that. Figured it's worth a shot!!

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