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iCloud: How to Disable Automatic Upload to Photo Stream

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If you configured Photo Stream for iCloud on your Mac or Windows PC the way we showed you how, you might want to tweak something – automatic upload. This feature takes any picture that you add to iPhoto or Aperture and automatically sends it to iCloud. This will help you sync your photos between two or more Macs. However, if you don’t want to upload that huge collection of RAW files or have all those pictures you just imported from your camera into iPhoto/Aperture to clogging your Photo Stream album on your iOS devices, then you can turn it off in one of two ways.

Turn Off Automatic Upload

Whether you use iPhoto or Aperture, this works the same way. Open the application’s Preferences by choosing the application name from the OS X menu bar and click on Preferences. Choose Photo Stream from the six tabs and uncheck the bottom box like below.

Turn Off Automatic Upload in iPhone or Aperture Preferences

Now, photos you take with your iOS device will still be automatically imported into your photo software, but any pictures you add to the software from a camera or some other source won’t clog your iCloud storage.

Photo Stream

Shut Down Photo Stream

A more drastic alternative would be to just turn off Photo Stream by disabling it in your Settings app. Maybe you have no interest in using Photo Stream to sync photos from your iOS device either. This will save you some space.

On the Mac, go to Settings. Then click on iCloud and uncheck Photo Stream. You will again see a warning like the one below. If you still want to turn it off, choose Turn off Photo Stream.

Photo Stream is Turned Off in the iCloud Settings Page

 

3 Comments

3 Comments

  1. Jr1

    10/19/2011 at 6:12 am

    iCloud Photo Stream service.  Apple now gives their iOS customers 5 Gigabytes (GB) of free online storage with their iCloud service, but in addition to that, they allow iCloud users to keep the last 1000 pictures they have taken online within a dynamic photo stream. The best part is that your 1000 image Photo Stream does not count towards your 5GB free disk space.All of the images taken with your phone are are synced and stored on your home computer, while only the most recent 1000 images will remain in sync with all of your other iOS devices.

    • Jr1

      10/19/2011 at 6:14 am

      Photo Stream does not count towards 5GB free

  2. kikky

    02/20/2012 at 9:25 am

    thank u, u saved my asss

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