Apple to axe popular photo feature after 12 years in favour of iCloud
A decades-old Apple function called My Photo Stream — which allows photo s to be accessed across a user’s devices — is being axed next month, the tech giant announced on Friday. It was released in 2011 with iCloud, which has now made most aspects of the feature redundant, except for the fact that My Photo Stream has always been completely free. Apple users can only accumulate 5GB of iCloud storage before a paid subscription is required, but it has still become the preferred storage option for various reasons. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> High-quality file formats have always been compressed by My Photo Stream, video and new formats like Live photos are incompatible with it, and for photos which are taken on “burst mode”, only “favourite” photos are imported. It has also only ever been a temporary remote storage solution. My Photo Stream appears like a digital photo album, and keeps 1000 of the user’s most recent photos on the iCloud server fo...