Lesson 7. Using iCloud with Your Photos

In this lesson, you learn how to take advantage of iCloud’s Photo Stream to automatically have all of your photos on multiple devices and to share photos.

Understanding Photo Stream

If you have more than one device with which you take, store, edit, or view photos, you’ll probably find that Photo Stream is one of iCloud’s most useful features. Photo Stream stores your photos in the cloud so that you can access them on any device. The great news is that this happens automatically; you don’t have to worry about syncing your photos among your devices because Photo Stream handles this for you.

Each of your devices can add photos to your Photo Stream (sender) and download photos from the Photo Stream (receiver). ...

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