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Q: deleted photos from camera roll also get delete in MY PHOTO STREAM?

Hi, my question is that, if I delete a photo in Camera Roll will be deleted from MY PHOTO STREAM too?

iPhone 6, iOS 9.2.1

Posted on Mar 2, 2016 7:52 AM

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Q: deleted photos from camera roll also get delete in MY PHOTO STREAM?

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  • by gail from maine,

    gail from maine gail from maine Mar 2, 2016 7:57 AM in response to XtremlyBlesseD__
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    Mar 2, 2016 7:57 AM in response to XtremlyBlesseD__

    No it will not be deleted. Camera Roll and Photo Stream are two separate sources for photos. Your Camera Roll is, in essence, your iPhone's Photo Library. Photo Stream is a temporary storage of photos that have been taken by any device that is signed into the same iCloud account. Photo Stream keeps the last 30 days or 1000 photos, whichever comes first.

     

    You may notice more than that limit of photos on an individual device, but if you were to turn off Photo Stream and then turn it back on, you would not see anything over 30 days old, or any more than 1000 photos, because that is all that would be kept in iCloud.

     

    Cheers,

     

    GB

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    XtremlyBlesseD__ XtremlyBlesseD__ Mar 2, 2016 8:23 AM in response to gail from maine
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    Mar 2, 2016 8:23 AM in response to gail from maine

    Thanks for a supporting reply, but what I noticed while deleting pictures from Camera Roll. The phone itself pop ups a message saying "This photo will also be deleted from Photo Stream on all your devices". & when I proceed further, the picture is deleted already. IMG_0157.PNG 

    Please find the Attachment so that you get it clearly.

    Thanks

  • by gail from maine,

    gail from maine gail from maine Mar 2, 2016 8:24 AM in response to XtremlyBlesseD__
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    Mar 2, 2016 8:24 AM in response to XtremlyBlesseD__

    I just checked this on my iPhone 5s running iOS 9 and it does appear that it will delete it from both places now. I selected a photo from the Camera Roll, and the message stated: "This photo will also be deleted from the Photo Stream on all your devices". So, it appears that it now will delete it from both places.

     

    This must be a new feature with iOS 9, so sorry about the misinformation.

     

    You can delete it from the Photo Stream, and it will not delete it from the Camera Roll, but it appears that now if the photo resides in both places, and you delete it from the Camera Roll, it also deletes it from the Photo Stream.

     

    Cheers,

     

    GB

  • by XtremlyBlesseD__,

    XtremlyBlesseD__ XtremlyBlesseD__ Mar 2, 2016 8:36 AM in response to gail from maine
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    Mar 2, 2016 8:36 AM in response to gail from maine

    Thanks as you Understand better,

    why i'm so curious here is I'm a good fan of this feature. I downloaded iCloud For Windows & signed in enabled Photo Stream so what I got here it still has some photo which I deleted through my iPhone 6's camera roll & Photo Stream as well.

     

    Please suggest something.

    Thanks

  • by gail from maine,

    gail from maine gail from maine Mar 2, 2016 5:20 PM in response to XtremlyBlesseD__
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    Mar 2, 2016 5:20 PM in response to XtremlyBlesseD__

    Sorry - I don't understand what your question is?

     

    Cheers,

     

    GB

  • by XtremlyBlesseD__,

    XtremlyBlesseD__ XtremlyBlesseD__ Mar 3, 2016 5:52 AM in response to gail from maine
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    Mar 3, 2016 5:52 AM in response to gail from maine

    Hi again, I wanted to tell you that i'm a great fan of Photo stream feature, so i have it installed on my laptop too. as we both seen earlier that how the picture get deleted from the Photo Stream if the main version of the picture is deleted from the Camera Roll.

     

    So the Problem in my case is that, if I delete a Picture from my iPhone's Camera roll it gets deleted from the Photo Stream in my iPhone too but from the Windows under iCloud Photos, sometime it gets delete & sometime it's not.

     

    Hope you understand this time.

    Thanks 

  • by gail from maine,

    gail from maine gail from maine Mar 3, 2016 6:26 AM in response to XtremlyBlesseD__
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    Mar 3, 2016 6:26 AM in response to XtremlyBlesseD__

    Well, not sure what the settings on a Windows photo app are, so can't help you there. In my Mac Photos app, I have an option to automatically import all Phtoto Stream photos, so they go to my Mac's Photos Library right away. I can delete them from the Photo Stream, but since they are already imported, they stay in the Mac's Photo Library.

     

    Remember - Photo Stream is a temporary streaming process designed to share photos between devices and computers. It is not intended as an archive. So, you need to look into your Windows processes to see if there is a way to automatically import Photo Stream photos.

     

    Best of luck,

     

    GB