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I tend to take pics on my iphone, then if I want to show them to people, use my ipad as its a bigger screen.
The now defunct Apple Photostream did that painlessly. It just synced photos between the 2 devices when on the same wifi network. No 3rd party involved. You lost resolution, but 99% of the time, not an issue.
I assume the plug was pulled as Apple figured out they could sell more iCloud storage that way.
Is there a replacement (free or one-time purchase) App that does the same thing? I don't want to rent cloud storage and I'm only looking to share info between the 2 devices, so I don't want to be storing the pictures remotely.
Thanks!
Do you have a NAS at home. These normally have a photo sharing facility and cloud functions.
If you're not talking about showing hundreds of photos you could AirDrop selected ones to your iPad and delete after viewing.
Or you could mirror your iPhone to your TV if it's 'smart' enough.
Don't have a NAS, don't have a telly. Airdrop would work for selected items, but be tedious for general browsing
Pees me off that they discontinued something that "just worked" for no obvious performative reason.
‘My photo stream’ - ‘the last 1000 pictures synced across your devices’ has been deprecated.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201317
it is no loss. One of the few Apple products that hasn’t worked remotely like it should have.
I see that my shared photo albums still work. Maybe that’s an option? Create a shared album drop stuff in it. Check it syncs across devices
you can wirelessly sync between photos between iPhone and Mac when you are on the same WiFi network. This does need prior wired linking.
Not iPhone to iPad though
if it is cloud-based cross-machine visibility of photos you want and ‘free’ then…
cut down your photos to fit into the puny free iCloud storage and use ‘iCloud photos’.
google photos
flickr
spending money?
Easiest will still be iCloud Photos with some extra storage
prime photos - unlimited for Prime subscribers
NAS. Synology photos is neat and syncs all files from photos (video included) to your NAS
Tom’s guide had something on this. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-my-photo-stream-shutdown
You can get 2gb of Dropbox for free.
Photos
Any you take will appear on your iPad.
I've never even heard of Photostream, and I bet you're one of only a handful of people on the planet still using it - everyone else just uses iCloud Photos.Pees me off that they discontinued something that “just worked” for no obvious performative reason.
Looking at PGP's link, it clearly worked through iCloud, so required bandwidth/server time. And like all apps, requires constant development to keep it working & secure. Both of which cost money, although if you are not au fait with computers it's fair that you might not realise that. But actually a very valid reason for dropping it, if virtually no-one uses it.
IMO the service they've replaced it with (paid iCloud storage) is [I]extremely[/I] fairly priced. 99p/month would probably be enough to seamlessly solve all your problems!
I was never impressed with Photostream it didn't seem reliable, I was never quite sure what was syncing and why. iCloud works. Yes it's 99p a month and generally I don't like software on subscription but come on, 99p a month?