As an iPhone user, you may be often confused to use My Photo Stream, iCloud Photo Library and Camera Roll on your iPhone. Like this, sometimes, when you deleted a photo from Photo Stream, but photo on both Camera Roll and Photo Stream are gone. Or like this, when you share photos by Photo Stream, but other devices cannot get the sharing. There are many puzzles to use the three services. In this article, we will discuss the relationship and differences among Camera Roll, My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Library to remove your confusions.
What is Camera Roll?
Camera Roll is a straightforward app that consists of photos you take with your camera and pictures you save from text messages, Emails or websites. You can directly deleted and add photos on Camera Roll. When you turn off both iCloud Photo Library and My Photo Stream, you could find it in 'Albums' of Photo app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
What is iCloud Photo Library?
As its claim on iPhone says that iCloud Photo Library automatically uploads and stores your entire library in iCloud with internet connection, so that you can access photos and videos with original and high-resolution quality from all your devices. But it doesn't upload photos and videos you copy to your device from iTunes. You can get free 5GB space in iCloud to sync photos and videos and you can only store photos and videos on iCloud Photo Library for 30 days. One thing you should know that iCloud will not duplicate your videos and photos in iCloud Photo Library.
What do you need to use iCloud Photo Library?
- Step 2: Choose Update & Security Windows Update and check for updates. Step 3: Install the updates on your Windows PC if there are new updates available. How to update Photos App: Go to Microsoft Store, search for Microsoft Photos, and check for updates. Install the latest version of Photos App on your Windows 10 PC if there are new updates.
- The first page in the Google Photos app is called the library and is always sorted on date, recent-up. But you can change the view under the 3 dots right-up. In a normal browser it is and then you should log-in with your Google-account also to see the same pictures, but much larger.
iCloud Photo Library is available with iOS 8.3 and later, Yosemite 10.10.3 and later, and tvOS 9.2. You can also access your entire photo library from the Photos app on iCloud.com. Another you cannot miss is Apple ID and enough iCloud storage.
How to turn on iCloud Photo Library?
Press and hold the Option key while you open Photos. In the dialog that appears, click Create New. Give your new library a name, then click OK. Using iCloud Photo Library on your iPhone. To start with, let’s set up iCloud Photo Library on your iOS device. Here is how you do that: Go to Settings. Tap on your name at the top. Underneath the iCloud storage indicator, you’ll see a list of apps using iCloud. Click on Photos (it should be the top option).
- ➤ For iOS users,
Go to 'Settings' > 'iCloud' > 'Photos', then turn on 'iCloud Photo Library'. - ➤ For Mac users,
Open 'System Preferences' > 'iCloud' > 'Photos' > 'Options', then select 'iCloud Photo Library'. - ➤ For Apple TV users,
Go to 'Settings' > 'Accounts' > 'iCloud' > 'iCloud Photo Library'.
How to use iCloud Photo Library to upload and download photos and videos?
➤ Upload photos to iCloud Photo Library
On your iOS device, tap 'Settings' > 'iCloud' > 'Photos' to back up photos to iCloud Photo Library. On your Mac, click 'photos' > 'Preferences' > 'iCloud' to upload photos and videos to iCloud. Hit 'Download and Keep Originals' to download original photos and videos over Wi-Fi.
➤ Download photos from iCloud Photo Library
You can download view and download photos and videos from iCloud to your computer. See this how to download iCloud photos for permanent backup.
What is My Photo Stream?
My Photo Stream comes to be a little difficult to understand, but bear with it patiently.
What does My Photo Stream do?
My Photo Stream is the cloud service you need to enable manually, which is provided by Apple which works on your iOS device, Windows computer or Mac. It can be used to transfer photos from iPhone to computer, or from Mac to iPad or iPod touch. The photos you take on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch will upload to My Photo Stream after you connect to Wi-Fi and pull out of Camera app. You could also add JPEG, TIFF, PNG, and most RAW photos to My Photo Stream on computer for sharing. My Photo Stream will keep your photos for 30 days or recent 1000 photos, which will not use your iCloud storage. So you are recommended to back up iPhone photos just in case. The photos stored on PC/Mac get full resolution and shows in device-optimized resolution on iOS devices.
What devices you can use My Photo Stream?
➤ iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 7 or later
➤ Mac with OS X Lion v10.7.5 and iPhoto 9.2.2, Aperture 3.2.3, or Photos for OS X 1.0 or later
➤ Apple TV (2nd generation and later) with Apple TV Software Update 5. Super meat boy 5th anniversary ost. 0 or later Sothink swf decompiler 7.
➤ PC with Windows 7 or later and iCloud for Windows
➤ iCloud set up on all of your devices
How to turn on My Photo Stream?
- ➤ For iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users,
Go to 'Settings' > 'iCloud' > 'Photos' > turn on 'My Photo Stream'. - ➤ For Mac users,
From the Apple menu, choose 'System Preferences' > 'iCloud' > 'Photos' > 'Options' > checkmark 'My Photo Stream'. - ➤ For Windows PC users,
Open iCloud for Windows on your computer > click 'Photos' > 'Options' > select 'My Photo Stream' > click 'Done' > 'Apply' to enable My Photo Stream on Windows computer.
Where to find My Photo Stream photos?
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- ➤ For iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users,
Tap 'Photos' > 'Albums' > 'My Photo Stream' for iOS 8 and later
Tap 'Photo Stream' > 'My Photo Stream' for iOS 8 and later - ➤ For Mac users,
Go to 'Photos' > 'Albums' > 'My Photo Stream' for Photos 1.0 or later
Open 'iPhoto' > 'iCloud' > 'My Photo Stream' for iPhoto 9.5 or Aperture 3.5
Open 'iPhoto' > 'My Photo Stream' or 'Photo Stream' for iPhoto 9.4 or earlier or in Aperture 3.4
What are the differences among Camera Roll, iCloud Photo Library and My Photo Stream?
iCloud Photo Library and My Photo Stream is the two items that many users may misunderstand, so here we give an easy comparison firstly with these two items.
| Website | My Photo Stream | iCloud Photo Library |
|---|---|---|
| What device to access iCloud photos | Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Windows PC, Apple TV (4th generation) | Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Windows PC, Apple TV (4th generation), Apple Watch, iCloud.com |
| What file types upload to iCloud | JPEG, TIFF, PNG, HEIF, RAW*, HEVC, GIF, MP4 | JPEG, TIFF, PNG |
| How does your photos store on iCloud | 1. Doesn't count against your iCloud storage. 2. Uploads your last 30 days and up to 1000 photos. 3. Downloads to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch in a smaller device-optimized resolution. On your Mac or PC, your photos download in full-resolution. 4. Edits you make won't update across your devices. | 1. Uses your iCloud storage. 2. As long as you have enough space in iCloud, you can store as many photos and videos as you like. 3. Stored in the original format at full-resolution. 4. You can turn on Optimize Storage and save space on your device. 5. Edits are stored in iCloud and stay up to date on your Apple devices. |
What is the difference of syncing photos?
When you sync photos, you may notice the difference beween iCloud Photo Library and My Photo Stream as below:
If you turn on iCloud Photo Library, Camera Roll photos will be replaced with 'All Photos' in Photos app. Meanwhile, all photos in My Photo Stream are also added into 'All Photos' and My Photo Stream album will disappear. That means, iCloud Photo Library backs up all photos in 'All Photos' album.
If you turn on both iCloud Photo Library and My Photo Stream on your devices, the new added photos to your library or taken with your iOS devices can be showed in the My Photo Stream album on other devices that turn off iCloud Photo Library. New photos from iOS device without iCloud Photo Library will not added into iCloud Photo Library.
One point you should pay attention to is that, you need to get iCloud Photo Library or My Photo Stream on or off on your multiple devices. You cannot enable iCloud Photo Library on one device, but enable My Photo Stream on other device, which will get both of them fail to contact with each other.
What is the difference of deleting photos?
If you want to delete a photo from My Photo Stream and Camera Roll, the difference you should remember is as following:
When you delete a photo from My Photo Stream on your device, it will automatically delete on other devices with your iCloud account, but Camera Roll photo is still safe to be intact. Alternatively, if you want to delete a photo from Camera Roll, the photo only disappears in your Camera Roll, and My Photo Stream photo is safe.
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What is the difference of recovering photos?
When you use these three helpers to sync photos, you also will find they work differently to recover deleted photos from iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
How to recover deleted from Camera Roll
Mitsubishi ppc server. If your devices run on iOS, you can try this way to find back your deleted photos.
Tap 'Photos' on your iPhone, go to 'Albums' > 'Recently Deleted' > find the photos you want to recover, hit 'Select' to choose the photos, tap 'Recover' on the right bottom side to get back the deleted photo to Camera Roll.
Note: this way will be only available within 30 days after you delete the photos.
How to retrieve deleted photos from iCloud Photo Library
As mentioned above, iCloud Photos Library stores all photos from Camera Roll and My Photo Stream, so here we only share the way to retrieve photos from iCloud.
Restore iPhone/iPad/iPod touch from the latest iCloud backup
Step 1On your iPhone go to 'Settings' > 'general' > 'Reset' > 'Erase All Content and Settings' to make your iPhone to factory resetting as a new one.
Step 2After your iPhone reboots, there are three options, 'Set Up as New iPhone', 'Restore from iCloud Backup' and 'Restore from iTunes Backup', choose 'Restore from iCloud Backup'.
Step 3Enter your Apple ID and sing in your iCloud account, choose the latest iCloud backup which consists of the photos you deleted from the backup list, then hit 'Restore' to recover your deleted photos.
The whole process of restoring will take some time, you need to keep your iOS deives full of battery.
The above way enables you to recover all iPhone backup data from iCloud.
How to restore photos pictues from Photo Stream?
Also, similar to the above two items, you could also recover photos from Photo Stream in this post.
The above long description is from the differences between Camera Roll, My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Library, hope you can get a clear understanding about them now.
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July 04, 2018 17:00 / Updated by Iris Walker to iOS, Photo
With the upgrade to Photos, many Mac users have been left with a duplicate iPhoto library on their Macs. Here’s how to delete iPhoto library and clear out some clutter.
iPhoto used to be the standard photo editor and photo management system on Macs, at least for the average computer user. Like it or not, however, that all changed when Apple first introduced the software, nearly a year ago. If your Mac came from Apple with Photos already installed, you don’t need to worry about old iPhoto libraries.
A Mac that was upgraded to a new version of OS X that added the Photos app, however, can end up with what look like duplicates of their photo libraries. The first time you start up Photos after upgrading, your Mac will copy over your photo library into the new software (if you explicitly set up more than one old iPhoto library, you’ll have to copy them over yourself). It doesn’t go back and delete the old one, though.
Here’s where things get a little bit confusing: you don’t actually have two copies of your photos. Thanks to the way OS X (the software that powers your Mac, like Windows powers a PC) works, your pictures aren’t actually stored in those libraries. Instead, they’re stored somewhere else on your hard drive, and each library has what Apple calls a “hard link” to the pictures. As a result, each library can access the photos, but store separate information about them. You can delete either library safely; only if you were to delete both libraries would you lose access to your pictures.
While having a second copy of your photo library doesn’t take up that much extra space on your computer, it can still be confusing – first of all, each library reports that it’s a certain size, which can make it difficult to figure out how much room is left on your Mac. Additionally, if you need to back things up, it can be hard to figure out where your files are.
Still with us? Let’s recap:
- if you upgrade your Mac from iPhoto to Photos, you’ll get a second photo library
- if you had multiple iPhoto libraries (you would know if you did), you’ll need to copy them into Photos manually
- the libraries each link to a single copy of your photos, rather than storing each photo twice
- it can appear that your libraries are taking up more space than they are, thanks to the way hard links work
- you can safely delete either photo library – only if you delete both of them will you lose access to your photos
How to delete iPhoto library on your Mac
Now that you understand why you might want to delete an old iPhoto library, and why you don’t necessarily have to, let’s talk about how to actually do it.
Before you do anything like this on your Mac – that is, delete something potentially important – you should back up your software with something like Time Machine.
Read: How to Backup Your Mac with Time Machine
That way, if you accidentally delete something important, or something else goes wrong, you can always roll things back to how they were when you started. This is really easy, and there’s nothing to be concerned about; it’s just good practice to back things up (and keep them backed up) before you muck about in your computer.
First, you’ll need to open a Finder window: you can do this by clicking on the Finder icon (it looks like a square face) on the dock, or by clicking on your Mac’s desktop background and hitting ⌘+N (Command + N) on your keyboard.
Next, look at the left-hand column in the new window. You’ll see a list of locations around your Mac; find the one that says Pictures and click on it. You’ll be taken to that directory, which contains libraries for Apple’s image-related apps (Photos, iPhoto, Photo Booth, etc).
In the list of files on the right, scroll down and look for your iPhoto library – it’ll be a little iPhoto icon, and the name will read, unsurprisingly, iPhoto Library. Don’t worry about accidentally deleting your Photo Booth or Photos libraries; you’ll be able to see which one is which.
To actually delete the library, you can do one of three things:
- Click on the iPhoto Library listing, and without letting go of your mouse or trackpad button, drag it until it’s over top the Trash icon on your dock. Once you’re on top of the Trash, let go.
- You can select (click on) the iPhoto Library, then right-click on your mouse or Trackpad (Apple will call this Secondary Click in your Mouse or Trackpad settings). A new menu will pop up; find the entry that says Move to Trash and click on it.
- Finally, you can also delete your iPhoto Library by clicking on it and hitting ⌘+Delete (Command + Delete) on your keyboard.
Read: How to uninstall apps on Mac OS X
Now that you’ve gotten rid of your iPhoto library, it makes sense to completely uninstall iPhoto – that way you won’t accidentally create a new iPhoto Library and have to repeat all these steps. It’s as simple as opening up your Applications folder, and deleting iPhoto (using one of the three steps we just discussed). For a more in-depth look at how to uninstall apps on your Mac, be sure to check out our guide above!
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