It's probably because it's so easy to just point and tap a button, or maybe it's the influence of social media, but the truth is that most people have thousands of photos stored on their phone. Apple has been supporting these large photo collections for almost a decade with their My Photo Stream service, which was introduced by Steve Jobs back in 2011. It was a free service that automatically uploaded up to 1,000 photos from the last 30 days.
Unfortunately, this service has now been discontinued and will no longer exist starting from July 26th.
From Daily Mail UK:
Apple will permanently delete an entire photo album from your iPhone next month, but thankfully there's an easy way to save the contents from being lost forever.
The tech giant has announced it's retiring My Photo Stream, an album that automatically stores your snaps from the last 30 days.
As part of the shutdown, My Photo Stream stopped uploading snaps on June 26 and everything in it will be lost when the album gets deleted on July 26.
If you're an iPhone user, you're urged to go on My Photo Stream – which is accessible through the Photos app – and save the contents to your device.
My Photo Stream has offered free storage for over a decade and an alternative to iCloud Photos, which just got more expensive in the UK and other countries.
Gotta be honest, this is kind of rip off.
It's quite frustrating to see this change without clear communication from Apple (no notification pop up), and to top it off, they have increased the cost of iCloud Photos.
What the heck Apple?!
