bennac
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Q: Deleting photos from iPhone but not iCloud

I know this question has been asked and answered before, but my situation seems slightly different.

 

I ran out of space on my iPhone, so I uploaded all of my photos from my iPhone to an iPhoto library, and then deleted many of the photos from my iPhone. I am now uploading all photos from the iPhoto library to iCloud Photos. Once that's done, I want to start syncing my iPhone to iCloud Photos (which contains all of the old photos from iPhoto) so that new photos I take show up in iCloud, but I don't want it to delete the old photos that are currently in iCloud but were deleted from my phone. Is that possible?

iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1.2

Posted on Jul 2, 2015 3:54 PM

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  • by dominofive,

    dominofive dominofive Aug 17, 2016 1:19 PM in response to ReggieMoto
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    Aug 17, 2016 1:19 PM in response to ReggieMoto

    Larry and his pal might be correct, it may well be marketed about a syncing service across all devices. But this often isnt possible anyway given the varying size of storage on devices and the cloud.  The iCloud tends to be the largest free storage for most people and as such should be the hub of a persons data. If that's not the purpose of the iCloud then it should be.

     

    There is no reason why you shouldn't be able to specify which item is synced to which device. It's a basic feature and it's bizarre that Apple haven't implemented it yet

     

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  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Aug 17, 2016 3:12 PM in response to dominofive
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    Aug 17, 2016 3:12 PM in response to dominofive

    dominofive wrote:

     

    There is no reason why you shouldn't be able to specify which item is synced to which device. It's a basic feature and it's bizarre that Apple haven't implemented it yet

    Yes there is, Apple don't provide it. But you can turn iCloud Library on or off for each device.

  • by 1Bigwhiskey,

    1Bigwhiskey 1Bigwhiskey Sep 21, 2016 5:46 PM in response to Csound1
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    Sep 21, 2016 5:46 PM in response to Csound1

    A work-around. 

    Email selected photo in iphone to yourself.  Open email and save photo to icloud.  Delete photo from iphone and delete email.  Photo appears on icloud and disappears from iphone.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Sep 21, 2016 5:49 PM in response to 1Bigwhiskey
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    Sep 21, 2016 5:49 PM in response to 1Bigwhiskey

    You can just turn iCloud off and upload them manually, probably easier, and just as inconvenient in use.

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