“I’ve been asked a lot lately by clients, friends, and my mailman how to reset the images stored in iCloud’s Photo Stream,” Melissa Holt reports for The Mac Observer.
“Turns out that it’s actually pretty easy to do, but there are a lot of convoluted steps involved,” Holt reports. “However, if it’s the only way you can get rid of those pictures from the office Halloween party, you might want to take the time to do it, anyway.”
Holt reports, “As you may know, you can’t remove images from your Photo Stream one by one. You either clear out the whole stream, or your pictures will stay in there until they get bumped out by newer files. So how do you wipe it clean?”
Complete instructions in the full article here.
man, that’s pretty clunky for Apple.
It is like that for a reason. So that people cannot delete a picture here and a picture there and then later on say, “hey what happened to that picture I took……apples iCloud is randomly deleting my pictures….look it’s on my iPhone and not on iCloud”.
Duh… Easy solution to that. It’s called logging.
Easy if you know what logging is.
should be set-up similar to a playlist in iTunes..where you can select which pics to be iClouded instead of a general “last 12 months” etc.
The reason is simplicity. It’s something the user is not supposed to worry about or need to manage. You just pull what you want out of the stream and forget about it. Of course many are worried and want to manage it.
rumor has it that apple will also offer a. new gallery like the mobile me gallery … more options for ambitious users and pros. next summer.
Apple REALLY needs to change photo stream.
Delete a pic from phone that was uploaded to photo stream? Have the dialog box ask, delete from this device? Or from entire stream.
For a company with such attention to detail it seems odd for them to let something like this slide on through.
“Turns out that it’s actually pretty easy to do, but there are a lot of convoluted steps involved” so in other words, it any easy.
Convoluted: highly complex or intricate.
Stop hedging or trying to sound interesting.
I like FTBs idea.
Problem is syncing photos can get messy. My main photo library is on my desktop mac. But I also have them on my laptop. Last weekend went through the faces recognition for members of my family. Then I remembered that the library I was using is on my laptop. So the original library is probably not updated.
Photo stream works well for getting photos on. But then what you do with them afterwards is also important.
Photo stream would be so great except for this function so I turned it off on everything my iPads my iPhones my MacBooks my Mac Pros—-I was so excited about photo stream but because I can’t edit it I can’t use it. Dictated this while driving. God I love the new dictating feature —it’s so sensitive and accurate
I was happy to see the ability to add albums in the photos app. But when you add photos to an album, they stay in the camera roll. Why can’t they make it where I can organize my photos OUT OF my camera roll into albums. If I try to delete the photo from camera roll after moving it to an album it says that the photo is in use in an album and gives me two options “CANCEL” or “DELETE FROM EVERYWHERE”. Frustrating.
Photostream at the moment is kind of caught between two ideas. It’s obviously not meant to be a permanent archive and just a way to make everything available to all your devices, which you then move to albums as you see fit. This is great, you don’t do anything it just happens. On the other hand though to a limited extent it’s being targeted for showing things to others, via slideshows on Apple Tv, etc. The problem with the latter is that there are obviously some things you might reasonably not want to be visible. Risqué content is one example, but on a more general basis if you’ve taken multiple shots of the same thing, you might want them for editing later, but you don’t want them all showing up on your Apple TV as it would look rubbish and be boring.
I think it would make sense to have a hide option like you have in iPhoto. That way, all your content gets synced and is available to do with what you want, but you still have some control over what is visible on a more passive basis to Apple TV, etc.
God damn i was almost expecting to see a step that said “open the registry …”
Almost had me thinking i was back on windows.
Im still on 10.7.1
Lol.
I read part of it and gave up. Too much of a hassle.
Why are people defending photo stream. Great idea bad implementation. You should have the option of loading or not to the cloud and delete select photos from the steam.
Why do people never read instructions?
from iPhoto Help:
>If you prefer to choose which photos from your iPhoto library are added to your Photo Stream, *you can turn off automatic uploading and add photos to Photo Stream manually*.
(Which is the way I have mine set up.)
Doh!
Simplicity (and reading for comprehension) isn’t everyone’s strong suite.
Got that right, Cubeman!
Seems both simple and obvious that whereas Photo Stream is for synchronizing editable images across one’s devices, ‘Your Photostream’ in Flickr (e.g.) is about actual sharing with other people of images (where, by contrast, levels of privacy as well as removal and addition are essential).