Photo Stream

With iCloud, when you take a photo on one device, it automatically appears on all your other devices. And with Shared Photo Streams, you can easily choose which of your photos you want to share and who you want to share them with.

Take or import a photo.

See it on all your devices.

My Photo Stream

Your photos everywhere. In a flash.

Take a photo on an iOS device. Or import a photo from your digital camera to your computer. iCloud automatically pushes a copy of that photo over any available Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection to the Photos app on your iOS devices, iPhoto or Aperture on your Mac, and the Pictures Library on your PC. You can even view your Photo Stream album on your Apple TV. So you can show off your shots to friends and family from whichever device you’re using at the time.

1,000 of your latest photos. With you all the time.

iCloud manages your Photo Stream efficiently so you don’t run out of storage space on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. If you have Photo Stream enabled on your iOS device, every single photo you take appears in a special Photo Stream album that holds your last 1,000 photos. You can delete any photos you don’t want from the Photo Stream.1 To touch up a photo or keep a favourite shot permanently, simply save it to your Camera Roll. iCloud stores new photos for 30 days, so you have plenty of time to connect your iOS device to Wi-Fi and make sure you always have your most recent shots handy.

1,000 photos on your devices

New photos appear on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch in a rolling collection of your last 1,000 photos.

All your photos on your Mac or PC

Your computer automatically keeps all the photos that come through your Photo Stream.

Save your best shots

If you take a photo you really love and want to make sure it stays on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, you can save it from your Photo Stream to your Camera Roll.

Master photo library. On your Mac or PC.

Keeping a complete set of your photos on your Mac is as simple as turning on Photo Stream in iPhoto or Aperture. Every new photo you take appears in a Photo Stream album just as it does on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. But since your Mac has more storage than your iOS device, it automatically imports every picture from your Photo Stream into your photo library so you can edit, delete and share the ones you want. Want to get the photos you’ve taken on your point-and-shoot or DSLR camera into your Photo Stream to view on all your other devices? The photos you import to your library from a camera or SD card are automatically uploaded to your Photo Stream. If you have a PC, you can auto-import and upload pictures too. Just turn on Photo Stream, grab a camera and start shooting.

Shared Photo Streams

Share select photos with a select audience.

With Shared Photo Streams, you can share just the photos you want with just the people you choose. Select photos directly from the Photos app in iOS6, iPhoto or Aperture on a Mac, or even a Windows PC. Enter email addresses of the people you’d like to share with (or add new photos to a Shared Photo Stream you’ve already created).

Thank you for sharing.

If the people you’re sharing with are using iCloud on an iOS6 device or a Mac running Mountain Lion, they’ll get a notification to view your pictures in the Photos app or iPhoto. If not, they can view your photos on the web. Your friends and family can comment on your photos, which could spark some compliments on your sassy new haircut. Share a little or share a lot: Shared Photo Streams don't count against your iCloud storage, and they work over Wi-Fi and cellular networks.

Make your photos a big deal with Apple TV.

With Photo Stream and Apple TV, you can view your recent photos and Shared Photo Streams on your HDTV for some truly entertaining reality television.2 And the Photo Streams your friends and family share with you appear on your Apple TV automatically, so you can check out their latest pictures, view comments and even Like photos with a click of your Apple TV remote.

Stream photos to Apple TV

Apple TV lets you stream your recent photos and Shared Photo Streams on your HDTV.

  1. Photo Stream photos downloaded to an iOS device with iOS 5.0.1 or earlier must be deleted manually after updating to iOS 5.1 or later.
  2. Photo Stream is compatible with the second-generation Apple TV or later. Shared Photo Streams require Apple TV Software version 5.1.

Some features may not be available in all countries or all areas. Click here to see the complete list.

iCloud requires iOS 5 or later on iPhone 3GS or later, iPod touch (3rd generation or later) or iPad; a Mac computer with OS X Lion or later; or a PC with Windows Vista or Windows 7 (Outlook 2007 or 2010 or an up-to-date browser is required for accessing email, contacts and calendars). Some features require iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion. Some features require a Wi-Fi connection. Some features are not available in all countries. Access to some services is limited to 10 devices.