Apple announced on July 26 that it will shut down the free photo storage service “My Photo Stream,” which provided users with the ability to store photos on the service.

According to an official statement, Apple said that all photos held by “My Photo Stream” users will be synced with the “iCloud” service by June 26 and will be available for one month, during which the user can download them. His devices.

And Apple called on users to rely on the iCloud photo storage service as a replacement for its service, which is set to shut down forever.

Apple explained the steps to follow to download photos from “My Photo Stream” on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices, that is, enter the Photos application and click on the Albums option, then enter the My Photo Stream folder. Then select all the images that the user wants to download to his device and press Save Image.

For Mac computers, the user has to open the Photos app, then choose My Photo Stream, and from there the user has to choose all the photos he wants to save, and drag and drop them all into Library storage. folder.

Apple emphasized the need to enable iCloud Photo service on iPhones running iOS 8.3 or later, iPad tablets running iPadOS 8.3 or later, and Mac computers running macOS X Yosemite or later.

After enabling iCloud Photos, Apple will allow you to easily browse your photos on iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple TV as well as the iCloud website, and you will also have the ability to sync photos to Windows computers via iCloud for Windows. .