Apple has announced the future closure of its My Photo Stream service on July 26, and with this it has encouraged its users to switch to iCloud Photos. If you still use Mi Photo Stream, a service launched in 2011, your files will remain available in the cloud for 30 days from July 26.
My Photo Stream was the precursor to iCloud Photos, with free use, but it only covered a maximum of 1.000 images and video clips. They kept your files in sync across every Apple device you owned and across the web. It is inevitable that with the arrival of better services, they want to close one that is in disuse, especially since a thousand photos is an easy limit to meet.
Apple is shutting down its old free photo and video storage service
Apple has not given any reason for the shutdown of the service. But it is inevitable to think that iCloud Photos is, clearly because it is the newest and most complete option for photo and video backups. Not only for this, but because Apple monetizes it with certain advanced storage fees.
Although the photos and videos will not be deleted from the devices, will be removed from the cloud 30 days after July 26. That is they will be removed from the cloud on August 25th and sync will be turned off.
What Apple is doing here is phasing out the cloud storage and sync service. for your last 1.000 photos and videos. The original files, which in most cases will be on an iPhone, if they were captured with the iPhone's camera, won't go anywhere. Apple is pushing its own iCloud service, because once you get over 5GB of files, you'll have to start paying for storage.
Other similar services that offer paid cloud storage are Google Photos and Dropbox. But since they are not fully integrated into the Apple ecosystem, the brand is not going to say that you can use them. From here we highly recommend have a synchronized storage system like a NAS, to be able to access the photos and videos and always have them local, and away from ransomware attacks focused on cloud service websites.
Source: TechRadar
