Liz
writes: So I turned on Photo Stream on my iPhone and it’s filling up
with pictures, but I read that the photos in my Photo Stream get deleted
after 30 days. What’s the best way to save them before they get
deleted?
Hi Liz! Yes, you’re right: the pictures in your Photo Stream will be
deleted from your iCloud account after 30 days, while your iPhone, iPad,
or iPod Touch will only keep the latest 1,000 Photo Stream snapshots.
The good news, though, is that saving your Photo Stream images forever is easy—and in some cases, it even happens automatically.
So, here’s the first thing to keep in mind: whenever you take a photo
with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, your snapshot is saved not only
to your Photo Stream but also to the Camera Roll—and the pictures in
your Camera Roll never get delated, or at least not until you tap the
“Delete” button. In other words, if you take a picture on your iPhone,
it’ll stay on your iPhone until you manually delete it.
OK, but what if you’re sharing Photo Stream with your significant other and you want to save the snapshots that he took on his iPhone? Here’s how:
- Open the Photos app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, then tap Photo Stream.
- See the little square with the arrow in the top-right corner of the
screen? Tap it, then start tapping the photos you’d like to save on your
device.
- When you’re finished selecting photos, tap the Save button to save
them to your Camera Roll, or tap Add To to save them to a new or
existing photo album.
Just enable Photo Stream in iPhoto to automatically save all your Photo Stream images to your Mac.
And one more thing: if you’re using Photo Stream with iPhoto on your
Mac or the iCloud control panel for Windows, all your Photo Stream
pictures will be saved automatically—and permanently—to your system’s
hard drive.
For iPhoto, you’ll need to turn on Photo Stream sharing by clicking
the iPhone menu at the top of the screen; then, select Preferences,
click the Photo Stream tab, and check the boxes next to “Enable Photo
Stream” and “Automatic Import.”
(Note: I don’t recommend checking the “Automatic Upload” box, since
that entails uploading to Photo Stream each and every new photo you
import into iPhoto—meaning you could tie up your broadband connection
for hours the next time you import, say, a couple hundred
high-resolution pictures from your digital camera.)
For Windows users, just download, install, and launch the
free iCloud control panel,
check the box next to Photo Stream, then select the directory into
which you’d like your Photo Stream images to be automatically
downloaded.
Original Post: http://heresthethingblog.com/2011/11/28/save-photo-stream-snapshots-theyre/
Angela
writes: Once in awhile I’ll come across a picture on the Internet that
I’d like to copy and paste into my iPhone’s photo album. I know how to
copy & paste text, but what about photos (or can you)?
You just snapped the perfect family photo on your iPhone—well, almost perfect, save for that stranger lurking in the background.
