How does Photo Beaming Work?

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Fanfoot March 08, 2012

How does Photo Beaming Work?

Apple mentioned this only briefly during the iPhoto demo. It sounds like you can 'beam' a photo from one device to another somehow. Do they have to be on the same network? Do you have to be on Wi-Fi? Will they create an ad-hoc network if they aren't? Do you need iPhoto or is this an iOS 5.1 feature? Anybody know?

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lirand 2012-03-09 19:10:31

Answers here: www.tuaw.com/2012/03/09/iphoto-beaming-under-the-h...

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lirand 2012-03-08 04:33:30

I'd love to get an answer for that.

What I will find really useful, is to be able to beam photos from my Mac to my iPad or iPhone, but I don't think you can do it (seems like iPhone to iPad only).

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Fanfoot 2012-03-08 20:41:15

Its possible this will be an as yet unannounced feature in Mountain Lion (they didn't announce it since iOS hadn't been updated yet and they didn't want to reveal the feature early). We'll have to see.

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falleninsea 2012-03-08 09:55:47

I'm sure the apple answer to your problem is Photo Stream. you take a picture on any iOS device it will show on your MAC. i have not taken any photos with my Camera though and tried to add them to Photo Stream on in iPhoto or Aperture. I wonder if you can.

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lirand 2012-03-08 10:00:44

Yeah you can. Photos I take with my camera go into PhotoStream (when it works).
Anyway, I would rather use something I can more easily control and configure (i.e. "send just these photos to my Mac - right now" and not "send all of the photos I've taken any time to the cloud - once you feel like it")

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Musikon 2012-03-08 12:05:36

Based on just a test, both devices have to have iPhoto, and have it open to beam. It seems to be over Wi-Fi because when I turned it off on one device, it couldn't find the other device to beam to. I could see how this would be useful when a friend took a great photo and you want to have the same photo on your device. It could also be used to send multiple photos, when there are too many to email. If you're both on the same Wi-Fi and willing to spend $5 for the iPhoto app, of course.

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