31-05-2023 03:25 via apple.slashdot.org

Apple's Original Cloud Photo Sync Service Shuts Down This Summer

My Photo Stream, the free cloud-based photo syncing feature Apple launched in 2011, is shutting down on July 26th, according to an Apple Support page spotted by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The Verge reports: The end of My Photo Stream won't come as too much of a surprise. Although it was free, it came with a long list of restrictions on the amount of photos you could upload, and these were only saved on Apple's servers for 30 days. Photos saved in the cloud then had to be manually saved locally if
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