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through the magic of
Photo Stream,
the antidote to the endless of problem of “I've snapped a picture,
now what?”
You need not fret about storage space using Photo Stream either. The last 1,000 pictures you've
taken over up to 30 days are held in a special Photo Stream album for 30 days — enough time,
Apple figures, for all your devices to connect and grab those images, because a Wi-Fi connection is
your only requirement. All the pictures you've taken remain on your PC or Mac, because those ma-
chines have more capacious storage. You can always manually move images from the Photo Stream
album into other albums on your iPad mini or other iOS devices and computers.
Photos taken on the iPad mini aren't whisked away into Photo Stream until you leave the Camera
app. In that way, you get a chance to delete pictures that you'd rather not have turn up everywhere.
But once you leave the Camera app, all the photos there are saved in My Photo Stream (found in the
list of Albums in the Photos app). The Camera Roll also includes pictures that arrived as e-mail at-
tachments and eventually landed in there because you saved them. Screen captures taken on the iPad
are there as well.
You can save pictures in the My Photo Stream album to any other album on the tablet.
1.
Choose the images you have in mind,
2.
Tap the Action icon in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
3.
Tap Save to Camera Roll.
If you delete pictures from My Photo Stream, they're removed also from the stream on your other
devices. But the pictures safely remain in Camera Roll in your iPad or whatever device you used to
shoot them.
If (for some reason) the pictures you snap on the iPad mini are not being uploaded, go
to Settings, scroll down and tap Photos & Camera, and make sure Photo Stream is turned on.
Sharing Photo Streams
The Photo Streams feature is a generally terrific and hassle-free way for you to make sure the pic-
tures you've shot end up on your devices. But Apple, in its infinite wisdom, recognizes that you
might also want to share your best images with friends and family and have those pictures automat-
ically appear on those people's devices.
An impressive — and aptly named — solution called Shared Photo Streams arrived on the iPad,
iPod touch, and iPhone with iOS 6 (and a bit earlier on Macs running OS X Mountain Lion). It was
modified in iOS 7 and is now referred to as iCloud Sharing, or just
Shared Streams.
The feature en-
