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Deleting photos in your Photostream
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Let the photo stream be activated, go into photo stream on your iPhone, press the little button with the arrow in the upper right corner, select the photos you want to move to your camera roll, press save, disable photo stream. Ta-daa!
The only available option at this point is to log in to www.icloud.com, go to your user, select "Advanced" and wipe out your entire PhotoStream photos.
Hope it helps..
Hope it helps..
Whenever I feel down in the day, a response in this thread always cheers me up!!
Have you looked at any of this thread at all? Obviously not, as you would have seen that you are now the 400th person to say that here.
AND, it's still not the answer!!!
No it doesn't help. If you don't understand why I said that, go read the thread, on any given page and you'll see why.
Hope it helps..
It's time for you to let go. The OP asked how to delete some photos off Photo Stream. The only way to do that right now is to remove all of them and put the ones you want back. It's not that hard to understand and being smug and argumentative doesn't help the OP. If the thread has turned into something else then folks should stay on topic.
Sorry, it's not a question of not being able to understand - we understand fully - or being smug. It's a question of being 100% fed up with people who have clearly not read any of the thread, jumping in and posting the same thing over and over again.
We all know about resetting PS - apart from anything else it's been mentioned 403 times in this thread! - but it is not the answer to the original question.
The answer is that there is no way to do it at the moment - simple as that.
We all know about resetting PS - apart from anything else it's been mentioned 403 times in this thread! - but it is not the answer to the original question.
The answer is that there is no way to do it at the moment - simple as that.
You totally missed the point. Well done. I'm not being argumentative. Just fed up of coming to this thread when I see new posts thinking someone actually has a way of deleting the odd photo and it's someone who has not read any of the thread saying the same thing as about 30 other people have already said like its groundhog day. It's a valid gripe.
lol - definitely. But I'm still confused on why folks think they cannot delete the odd photo.
This is why the thread is 10 pages long. Or you could answer my question. The OP wanted to delete some photos out of his photo stream. Hopefully he has done so at this point. What's the issue?
Now I know you have missed the point. It's a common issue. Many people want to be able to delete the odd photo from the stream and are hoping someone posting a suggestion in the thread will enable this. That's why people posting the same suggestion to wipe the whole photo stream is frustrating as we know this already but it doesn't fulfill what was asked.
Because you can't? The only way of deleting this or that specific photo from the photo stream is to sync everything to the computer, reset the photo stream and then manually adding the previous photos that you didn't want to delete to photo stream.
Not really a great way of doing it, is it?
Because you can't? The only way of deleting this or that specific photo from the photo stream is to sync everything to the computer, reset the photo stream and then manually adding the previous photos that you didn't want to delete to photo stream.
Not really a great way of doing it, is it?
Ah, someone finally calmly mentions the elephant.
I was beginning to think I was being too subtle.Folks in this thread are getting caught up in how you do it. There's a big difference between "can't" and "terrible workaround".
Sorry to restate this, but the OP wanted to "delete" / "get rid" / "remove" / "un-Photo Stream" / "bury in a shallow grave" a particular photo. It is disingenuous to say you can't. Heck, I'm OK with "I rebuilt or recreated my Photo Stream without the picture of my foot". The net result is the picture is gone which is what the OP asked for.
I use Photo Stream for the screensaver on an ATV2. The first day I uploaded my most recent 650 photos to see the magic. I quickly realized that many of them aren't interesting screen saver photos (screen captures, blurry, etc.). So I "deleted" about 150 of them (a multi-step process which is currently all we have).
Since I'm not an ISP with unlimited bandwidth, before uploading the pics I downsized them and removed all metadata except the EXIF orientation tag.
If instead of defending yourself had you spent the time to read the thread you would have no doubt what the heck we all meant.Ah, someone finally calmly mentions the elephant.
And, no, deleting all PS photos and then trying to get a subset of them back onto PS is not "deleting the odd photo." That is still deleting them all, not to mention any place they have been downloaded, and then recreating it.
Clearly there is a need to delete individual PS photos and I suspect that option will be added. There is already a growing outcry for it. Actually there needs to be options too rather than "everything except video." As a developer I take a lot of screenshots and my PS is more than half-filled with just screenshots. I would like an option to not send PNGs to the PS, for instance. Perhaps there even needs to be a setting for the camera that, if turned on, will ask after each shot if you want it uploaded to PS. And, getting a little over optimistic with this, but it would be nice to be able to toggle it on and off without resetting anything. Or even a PS "snooze" that would turn it off for x number of minutes.
Michael
Did read thread. Too many people shouting, "You can't". That's not true. The OP wanted to remove a couple of photos from his Photo Stream. You can, just not the way people want to do. Also, you don't need to delete photos from where they've been downloaded.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486
Oh well, I've said my piece. The answer is out there for those that need it.
I also want the ability to remove a single photo(s) without using the current method.
no it is true. You cannot delete just a couple, you have to delete them all. Doing that then re-adding is no just deleting a couple. The OP doesn't just want to delete a couple once, but whenever needed, go read the OP again to see.
And this is like the first hit on a google search of "delete photo stream photos."
I can imagine how many people will read the "solution" that is not a solution and go away scratching their heads. lol
Michael
The answer is out there, which is you CAN'T delete a couple of photos from Photo Stream. (There are methods to delete a couple photos from Photo Stream by NOT using Photo Stream, but that's not what the OP wants and that's not what users want. Not everyone has the time to take gazillion steps just to remove 10 photos from Photo Stream.) I think you are definitely missing the point of this thread.
The solution is out there for those who are looking to delete the ENTIRE album on Photo Stream.
So until Apple decides to put more features into Photo Stream, it is pretty useless to me right now.
Stop being daft. You get the exact same result in the end, the only difference is the only possible way is a lot more tedious than the, let's say, only logical way.
You can't go to photo stream and delete this and that photo like you can in a normal album, but you can alter your photo stream into looking like you have. Which is what OP wanted - a way of removing only certain pictures from his photo stream. And he can use this method whenever needed...
I'm not being daft, it's just not a practical solution to do it anytime you want to delete the odd photo or 2 on an ad hoc basis, which is what the OP and many others in this thread are after.
No one has said it's a practical solution, quite the contrary actually. But it does exactly what the OP is asking for - removes selected pictures from the photo stream.
And, just because you used the expression "ad hoc basis"; this is an ad hoc solution if anything
then don't allow embarrassing pics taken
Pics? maybe you shouldn't be doing what you're doing when the pic is taken?
I love it - but I did want to delete - only because I'm not sure how it works and I'm trying to free up space on my ipad2.
I moved the pics from my PC to my photos... to delete them from it.
I assume since they're still on the ipad they'll appear again? maybe not.
If I see them on ipad in "stream" they're not really taking space on the ipad right?
also - how do I get it to transfer the video clips too?
I'd like it to transfer all - so I can delete them off the ipad the next day knowing I have them on the Pc.
YES as someone said above a "sync" dir would be better, anywhere we toss or save into the sync dir would appear on pc.
What I want to know is - HOW TO DELETE MASS AMOUNTS OR ALL photos in a album or dir on ipad? I have a burst photo ap that takes like 20 pics a second to get the right one. (of kids or fast action) and out of the 100 I might shoot I want to keep 3-4. So far I have to tap each to delete. Seems really stupid!
I'd like to select groups, all or at least delete all in dir.
Pics? maybe you shouldn't be doing what you're doing when the pic is taken?
I love it - but I did want to delete - only because I'm not sure how it works and I'm trying to free up space on my ipad2.
I moved the pics from my PC to my photos... to delete them from it.
I assume since they're still on the ipad they'll appear again? maybe not.
If I see them on ipad in "stream" they're not really taking space on the ipad right?
also - how do I get it to transfer the video clips too?
I'd like it to transfer all - so I can delete them off the ipad the next day knowing I have them on the Pc.
YES as someone said above a "sync" dir would be better, anywhere we toss or save into the sync dir would appear on pc.
What I want to know is - HOW TO DELETE MASS AMOUNTS OR ALL photos in a album or dir on ipad? I have a burst photo ap that takes like 20 pics a second to get the right one. (of kids or fast action) and out of the 100 I might shoot I want to keep 3-4. So far I have to tap each to delete. Seems really stupid!
I'd like to select groups, all or at least delete all in dir.