How to use the Apple Photo streaming feature on different devices

The Apple icloud is the best cloud feature in smartphones today, it can not only achieve automatic iOS device automatic system backup (after the backup function, the device connected to the power and WiFi environment automatically back up), but also has a very convenient photo streaming features, allowing you to share photos across multiple platforms, devices, can also be easily shared with friends. Let's look at how you can use the photo streaming feature in a variety of different devices.

Photo Streaming feature Introduction

First, to use the photo streaming feature, you have to have an Apple ID, and basically all iphone users will sign up for one. In addition, photo streaming is part of the icloud feature, so the first choice is to turn this feature on in the icloud option. To remind you that "my photo Stream" can store the last 30 days, more than 1000 photos, the capacity is not the icloud space you buy, that is, whether you are a free 5GB user or extra cloud space, when the photo stream filled with 1000 photos, Can only get new photos by deleting the previous content.

In addition to storing photos taken from this account, photo streaming can also be shared with friends through the "Share photos Stream" feature, which can be supported by different versions of the client. When sharing a photo stream, you first need to create a category, add a name, contacts, and photos, and choose whether to share a public network, and if so, the photos will produce a link that anyone can view through a Web browser, like an online photo album. Each shared photo album can add hundreds of photos and also support the comment feature.

Mac System

In the Mac system, the icloud function has been integrated, so in the system preferences can be found in the relevant directory, open the login, opened the photo streaming function. If you want to see the photo stream, you need to use iphoto.

icloud Control Panel

In the iphoto application, you can go to the Preferences menu and see the Photo Stream project, you can choose to automatically import and upload features, so that the Mac computer photos will appear on your iphone or ipad. At this point, back to the iphoto application interface, you can see the photo Stream column, can be arranged according to the rules of events, places, etc., can also easily add photo streaming sharing content. In addition, pictures in the iphoto image stream will remain at their original resolution, while iOS devices will shrink appropriately.

iphoto Photo streaming feature settings

iOS devices

The photo streaming feature on iOS is also easy to find and can be found in the Setup-icloud-photo project to open the "my photo streaming" and "photo sharing" feature. Of course, you also need to first log on to the Apple ID on the iOS device before you can use it. When opened, your iphone, ipad photos will appear in the "My Photo Stream" project, the Mac that logs on to the same Apple ID, the Windows computer can also receive the photo stream content, no more cumbersome transmission.

Windows system

To use the photo streaming feature on a Windows computer, you first need to download the icloud Control Panel software that installs the Windows version. When the installation is complete, log on to the Apple ID, which is basically the same as the Mac version. However, because there is no iphoto software on windows, a "photo streaming" System folder is generated, which is visible in the root directory of the resource manager. Once the iOS device or Mac computer has new photo streaming content, the folder is automatically updated (in a networked environment) and is also very convenient.

Windows version icloud Control Panel

Photo Stream folder is in the root directory of the resource Manager

In addition, the icloud Control Panel also brings the "Add to photo streaming" sharing feature for the Windows system's right key, just right click on the picture file to see it, but instead of adding the file to my photo stream, create a shared album. The pictures in my Photos folder support copying and deleting, but adding pictures to albums does not seem to sync to other terminals.

can display my photo stream and shared photo content