humanengr
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Q: how to stop iOS Photos from storing photos?

When I use the iOS Camera, it duplicates that photo in the Photos app. How do I stop that? (It unnecessarily uses  memory.)

 

In Settings, all "Photos & Camera" settings are off as is "iCloud:Photos".

iPad Air, iOS 9.3

Posted on Aug 17, 2016 12:49 PM

by Demo,Solvedanswer
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A:

After reading throught this thread now, I will repeat my original statement.

IF you mean that you see the photos in thumbnail view while using the Camera app, they are not duplicated at all. You are just seeing them in the camera app but they are stored in the photos app

The photos are not duplicated unless you imported them to your computer and then synced them back using iTunes as sberman suggested early on.

Posted on Aug 18, 2016 2:55 AM

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  • by humanengr,

    humanengr humanengr Aug 17, 2016 4:57 PM in response to Diana.McCall
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    Aug 17, 2016 4:57 PM in response to Diana.McCall

    Why would one think to search for an 'iPad manual' when apps that need a manual have that built in?

     

    btw, not a noob.

  • by LACAllen,

    LACAllen LACAllen Aug 17, 2016 11:21 PM in response to humanengr
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    Aug 17, 2016 11:21 PM in response to humanengr

    Couple of observations for you...

     

    1st 2 hits on Google...

     

    Screen Shot 2016-08-18 at 2.16.47 AM.png

     

    And... Apple's various Photo apps that are used to organize your photos do not rely solely on filename. They use pieces of the EXIF data in addition to the filename. Duplicate filenames should not be an issue.

  • by humanengr,

    humanengr humanengr Aug 17, 2016 11:53 PM in response to LACAllen
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    Aug 17, 2016 11:53 PM in response to LACAllen

    The point is that a user (noob or otherwise) wouldn't think to look for an "iPad user guide" when the issue at hand concerns an app, just as one wouldn't search for a "Mac user guide" if one wanted to know about a Mac app. Aside from that, who would expect that a simple, minimal feature Camera program (from a company ostensibly appreciated for user-friendly design) would need a manual?

     

    I remember using Apple's Image Capture, which named files as "IMG_xxxx". That doesn't seem to use EXIF.

  • by sberman,

    sberman sberman Aug 18, 2016 12:14 AM in response to humanengr
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    Aug 18, 2016 12:14 AM in response to humanengr

    humanengr wrote:

     

    The point is that a user (noob or otherwise) wouldn't think to look for an "iPad user guide" when the issue at hand concerns an app, just as one wouldn't search for a "Mac user guide" if one wanted to know about a Mac app.

    One of the beauties of Apple products is the solid integration of hardware and software. It shouldn't take very long even for a noob to realize a product's writeup very likely contains pertinent, helpful information about Apple's embedded software.

     

    And, by the way, look at the other very apparent spot housing the iPad User Guide (Safari Bookmarks):

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  • by humanengr,

    humanengr humanengr Aug 18, 2016 12:32 AM in response to sberman
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    Aug 18, 2016 12:32 AM in response to sberman

    So well integrated that Apple uses different places for iOS 'help' than 3rd-party apps do. And a user is to supposed to go through a thought process of appreciating "solid integration of hardware and software" (an insider's view) in order to realize that help for an app would be under something labeled as hardware?

     

    I never would have thought to look in a browser's bookmarks. Oh, and I just looked there and that shows Favorites, History, Bookmarks Menu and a bunch of my bookmarks; no iPad User Guide; don't remember ever noticing it there. Could I have erased years ago? Maybe, but for something so important why would it be erasable?

  • by Demo,Solvedanswer

    Demo Demo Aug 18, 2016 2:55 AM in response to humanengr
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    Aug 18, 2016 2:55 AM in response to humanengr

    After reading throught this thread now, I will repeat my original statement.

    IF you mean that you see the photos in thumbnail view while using the Camera app, they are not duplicated at all. You are just seeing them in the camera app but they are stored in the photos app

    The photos are not duplicated unless you imported them to your computer and then synced them back using iTunes as sberman suggested early on.

  • by humanengr,

    humanengr humanengr Aug 18, 2016 6:33 AM in response to Demo
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    Aug 18, 2016 6:33 AM in response to Demo

    Thx Demo, I do see now that Camera displays photos stored in Photos. I've never synced photos via iTunes.

     

    i hadn't had reason to explore Photos since its introduction in iOS 8 and so didn't know about its relationship to Camera. And so now, R'ing TFM, I see p. 82 discusses 'remaining days' until automatic permanent removal and how to effect permanent deletion prior to that. So I'll use that latter feature in the future to free up memory after uploading to Dropbox. Maybe I missed it, but I don't see any mention in the manual that photos deleted from within the Camera app remain in Photos until permanent deletion there.

     

    So maybe what happened here was a coincidental automatic permanent delete by Photos?? Or maybe some delayed memory management. (I've seen other oddities wrt memory mgmt.) As the situation has resolved, no need to ponder further.

     

    So thx all for the reference to the 'iPad' manual.

  • by Diana.McCall,

    Diana.McCall Diana.McCall Aug 18, 2016 7:01 AM in response to humanengr
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    Aug 18, 2016 7:01 AM in response to humanengr

    Regarding your observation that deleted photos don't delete, when you delete photos they are moved to the Recently Delete album, sort of a trash for photos. Your second delete operation emptied the trash. It would have worked the same if you'd done both deletes in Photos. There's nothing magic about Camera.

  • by humanengr,

    humanengr humanengr Aug 18, 2016 7:21 AM in response to Diana.McCall
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    Aug 18, 2016 7:21 AM in response to Diana.McCall

    Right -- and good phrasing re "sort of trash for photos". As I said though, I had no reason to explore Photos.

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