Temporarily Disable Photo Stream

I would like to bring to Apple's attention my need to temporarily disable Photo Stream om my mobile devices. I have used Photo Stream for a while and found it to be useful but a little unreliable and inconsistent, requiring resetting now and again. I've put up with this but the final straw was when I was using mobile broadband via WiFi while traveling internationally (I need to keep my own SIM in my phone but roaming data rates are very expensive so bought a local SIM and used it in a Mobile WiFi device) and taking lots of photos, and found my data cap exceeded very quickly due to Photo Stream activity. However, there is no temporary disable feature as switching it off deletes the folder on my phone and prevents later syncing of photos taken while Photo Stream is off. Even if I didn't want to sync all those holiday pics and switch it back on once I've finished traveling, more data will be wasted reloading photos already installed in the cloud, and it would make more sense for them not to be deleted from the phone in the first place! Or have I missed something?

Because there is no "temporarily" turning Photo Stream off.

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  • [svn:osmf:] 14817: Temporarily disable http streaming related tests to have integration build back online .

    Revision: 14817
    Revision: 14817
    Author:   [email protected]
    Date:     2010-03-17 10:29:27 -0700 (Wed, 17 Mar 2010)
    Log Message:
    Temporarily disable http streaming related tests to have integration build back online.
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    Author:   [email protected]
    Date:     2010-03-17 10:29:27 -0700 (Wed, 17 Mar 2010)
    Log Message:
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