Urgent warning to iPhone users their precious memories may have just vanished

29 July 2023 , 06:04

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Millions of us like to take pictures on our phone, share them on our socials and then put them on saving software (Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Apple users are being warned to save precious photographs on iPhones before the tech giant axes its popular My Photo Stream service.

Any images uploaded to the system before this week will stick around for a further month, after which time the multimedia will vanish from the tool.

iPhone users are reminded to save copies of all photos on the service if they haven't kept the originals.

The pictures will not be removed from the original devices which took the image.

So, Apple fans should be safe as long as they’ve not deleted them but people who use the Photo Stream tool to move pictures between devices, could have potentially lost precious memories.

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My Photo Stream, launched in 2011, was a forerunner to the iCloud Photo Library, allowing users to upload photos and videos taken on one device to be downloaded on another without using their iCloud storage allowance. It automatically stored the most recent 1,000 photos taken in the last 30 days.

But recently Apple emailed its users to inform of the move, which it states is natural progression to focus on the iCloud Photos software instead. Users, though, have to pay for storage with iCloud.

The tech giant wrote: "My Photo Stream is scheduled to be shut down on 26 July 2023. As part of this transition, new photo uploads to My Photo Stream from your devices will stop one month before, on 26 June 2023. Any photos uploaded to the service before that date will remain in iCloud for 30 days from the date of upload and will be available to any of your devices where My Photo Stream is currently enabled. By 26 July 2023, there will be no photos remaining in My Photo Stream and the service will be shut down."

It's encouraged customers to check whether they user iCloud, and this can be done using the following instructions;

• On your iPhone or iPad, go to Settings > your name > iCloud. Make sure it says “On” next to Photos on each of your devices.

• On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings, click your name, then click iCloud. Make sure it says “On” next to Photos on each of your devices.

Bradley Jolly