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iCloud: photo stream works

  • Oct 08, 2025
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The photo stream is part of iCloud and provides for the synchronization of your pictures between your iOS devices. Take, for example, a picture on your iPhone, so this will be uploaded to your iCloud and appear on all your Apple devices where photo stream is enabled, as soon as these are connected via WLAN with the Internet.

iCloud to enable photo stream under iOS

  1. Open the "settings"App and select the category "photos & camera".
  2. Here you can activate the Option "My photo stream". Thus, the function is turned on on your iOS device.
  3. In addition, you can also enable the "iCloud photo library". Thus your images will not be transmitted to other devices, but also online in the Cloud, backed up.
  4. Connect your iOS device with a Wi-Fi access, so that the photo stream can be used.
iPhone: photo stream enable

iCloud: this is the photo stream works in practice

In order to use the photo stream, you must open the "photos"App. Each photo stream has a Limit of the maximum age of the image of 30 days, the number of 1,000 images, as well as the storage Maximum of the iCloud. The images do not exceed in your Stream one of these conditions, you will be deleted from the photo stream.
  • Open the "photos"App on your iOS. Here you will find a new Album with the name "My photo stream". All the images stored in your photo stream currently are.
  • A picture is only in the photo stream, but not on the device, you can save the image locally. Select the photo you want to easy.
  • The Stream not already existing images from your mobile device, you can unfortunately add, this can only be done on a Mac or PC. Only newly shot or a saved images end up in the photo stream.
  • You also have the possibility to create photo streams and share them with your friends. As such a photo stream set up, you will learn in our separate practice tip.
  • You can delete individual images from photo stream, the photos only on the device on which the action is carried out. On all other devices, the images are still visible.
  • Disable photo stream in the settings, deleted all photo streams. You activate the function again at a later date, will create a completely new photo stream.
Photo stream on the iPhone
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