Photo Stream feature hints found in iOS 4.3

iOS Possible confirmation of a Photo Stream service in iOS 5 has come after users spotted hidden references to the service inside the current version, iOS 4.3. We wrote about it a while ago here, but now a 9to5Mac reader has come across it while using a third-party app to browse his iPhone 4 photo albums.

The expectation is that Photo Stream will work for your photos in Photos.app the same way Playlists work for music in iTunes, allowing you to send albums of photos to friends. Its background appearance in iOS 4.3 may indicate that it was pulled at the last moment and will instead be part of the major iOS 5 upgrade, which is rumored to be out this fall.

Hopefully, Photo Stream will indeed make it into iOS 5. Sharing your photo albums via a revamped MobileMe with your friends and family, all in an easy-to-use Apple fashion, would be a great feature.

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Isolder

I think photo streaming could be nice, but what I really want to hear is that we will have full photo album editing on our devices. That should be the big photo related announcement. Followed by the ability to view images on the iPad without optimization or downsizing.

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Peter_T

Yes! if iMovie and Garage Band are there then surely iPhoto is next? The iPad is perfect for photo manipulation, but re-importing everything to iPhoto is a drag.

April 05 2011 at 11:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply