Comments on: iOS 5: Photo Stream, warts and all

By: Will cook

Will cook — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:41:58 +0000

I miss Mobile Me as well, particularly iDisk and iWeb. Photo stream is of no use to me. I want to have complete control over what photos I upload to iPhoto, edit, and only then distribute to other devices. It is annoying to have all those unedited photos sitting around.

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:23:57 +0000

You have to be very careful of this feature. I turned on our Apple Tv last week and the screen saver photos were rather shocking. Guess my husband was a bit bored on his last business trip and was looking at some pretty interesting stuff online… Good thing I was alone – we had just had a kids birthday party at our house and used the Apple TV for music. Would have been slightly embarrassing!

By: Ronda

Ronda — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:55:02 +0000

Rookie here. Just recently began using Apple products and I’m trying to get my photo’s from my PC to my ipad2. According to the FAQ, I can drag them into the Upload folder, which I have done, but nothing is in my iCloud. Help!

By: yyy

yyy — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:28:28 +0000

Yes! I’ve been wondering the same thing. I’m surprised there aren’t more discussions about this issue. As far as I can tell, there is no way to get my videos in the camera roll onto my computer without using a wire (or using a 3rd party tool). Seems odd…

By: i

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:42:16 +0000

Does anyone know if iPhoto has to be open for photo stream to work?

By: Mrjdobbs

Mrjdobbs — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:21:16 +0000

Ive been trying to get photo stream working on my iPad 2 and it just won’t. Works great on my phone and pc. Any ideas? All settings are te same as my phone.

By: Jim Burer

Jim Burer — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:38:45 +0000

I’ve been wondering the same thing. I’m beginning to lean towards a wireless importing app like PhotoSync, but was hoping for a more integrated solution.

Did you ever find a solution?

By: Cycledoc, Washington

Cycledoc, Washington — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:13:54 +0000

Photostream also deletes the originals if you turn the thing off. It’s not worth the time and effort, particularly if you are near your computer.

Much too complicated.

By: Cubicle Concepts LLC

Cubicle Concepts LLC — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:09:00 +0000

I agree 100%. MobileMe Gallery Rocks, I have been using it since day 1, and challenge anyone to find a better or cleaner interface. It just steams me that I can no longer upload my new iPhone 4s awesome 8 megapixel pictures, and 1080p videos directly to the Gallery. I too would pay 99 per year just to have Gallery back! I wrote my comments to apple on their iCloud feedback section, I suggest all that miss Gallery, iDisk or iWeb do the same. If they don’t hear you, it will be lost for good, and it is a top notch product, just majorly UNDER-ADVERTIZED.

By: aldo

aldo — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:08:49 +0000

My Photostream isn’t working with ANY photos I’ve taken using the iPhone camera. If I take a screenshot or download some wallpaper using an app into my camera folder, then it syncs and I can see it in iPhoto. If I take a photo with the camera it simply doesn’t sync. Ever. At all. I’ve tried about 20 or 30 photos. The phone and macbook pro are connected to wi-fi (I’m at home), iPhoto is updated to 9.2 (iPhoto ’11), The OS is 10.7.2, the phone has been updated to iOS 5 and everything else works in iCloud: Calendar, Find my mac/iphone, Contacts, mail etc. It’s driving me crazy and I’ve been at least a day searching the web and trawling through forums but no answer. I can’t go to an Apple store because I’m living ans working in China at the moment and it’s an 8 hour round trip to Beijing on the plane (or 58 hours on the bus). If anyone has any advice please help.