When iOS says: “Turning off Photo Stream will delete all Photo Stream photos”, it is LYING 🔥 E.g. any photos in your Camera Roll will NOT be deleted. I know this because I just did turn off “My Photo Stream” in iCloud preferences in iOS. (yes, after backing up all my photos to my laptop) and clicked the scary “Delete” button on the resulting dialog (with aforementioned message). Not a single photo was deleted. Not one. The only thing deleted was the seemingly superfluous “Photo Stream” album in the lists of albums. All photos still in the Camera Roll. Liar, liar, UI pants on fire 🔥 This alert wording is scare-UI designed to make you afraid of turning off iCloud “My Photo Stream” syncing (ships on by default), because of course, taking photos/videos which get synced to your iCloud is the fastest way to fill up your “free” iCloud storage, and thus make your iOS device prompt you to pay to upgrade your iCloud account. That filling up your iCloud storage also prompts another scare-UI: “Not Enough Storage This iPod touch cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available. You can manage your storage in Settings. [Close] [Upgrade Storage] ” to again, pay to upgrade your iCloud account. This feels fairly sinister, such fear-based UI design seemingly incentivized by an attempt to turn every iOS user into a paying iCloud subscriber. Screenshots to follow.

When iOS says: “Turning off Photo Stream will delete all Photo Stream photos”, it is LYING 🔥

E.g. any photos in your Camera Roll will NOT be deleted.

I know this because I just did turn off “My Photo Stream” in iCloud preferences in iOS. (yes, after backing up all my photos to my laptop) and clicked the scary “Delete” button on the resulting dialog (with aforementioned message).

Not a single photo was deleted. Not one. The only thing deleted was the seemingly superfluous “Photo Stream” album in the lists of albums. All photos still in the Camera Roll.

Liar, liar, UI pants on fire 🔥

This alert wording is scare-UI designed to make you afraid of turning off iCloud “My Photo Stream” syncing (ships on by default), because of course, taking photos/videos which get synced to your iCloud is the fastest way to fill up your “free” iCloud storage, and thus make your iOS device prompt you to pay to upgrade your iCloud account.

That filling up your iCloud storage also prompts another scare-UI:

“Not Enough Storage

This iPod touch cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available.
You can manage your storage in Settings.
[Close]
[Upgrade Storage]
”

to again, pay to upgrade your iCloud account.

This feels fairly sinister, such fear-based UI design seemingly incentivized by an attempt to turn every iOS user into a paying iCloud subscriber.

Screenshots to follow.