Erase Photos on I cloud before 30 days,urgent, please help, missus will kill me

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Erase Photos on I cloud before 30 days,urgent, please help, missus will kill me

Hi, I have big problem and nothing seams to work.

I disabled iCloud on my iOS device, turned off photos backup, turned off anything about iCloud. And it is ok, nothing new is updated. Photos are erased from phone, nothing is backed up and that is all good. But iCloud.com is the problem.

When I go to iCloud.com, there is notification about 30 days and photos are still there. Delete button is "grayed-out" inactive, and when I select photos and press "delete" system just go into "processing" mode and nothing happens. It seams like photos are impossible to delete.

And I have to delete them before that because of "private reasons", aka my misses will see something that she shouldn't.

So, please, how to delete photos from iCloud.com before 30 days expire. Also, is there any kind of Apple support to help me. Deleting the complete account (Apple ID) is not (that would be a worst) option.

iPhone 8 Plus

Posted on May 24, 2020 1:20 AM

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Answer 1

LACAllen

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May 24, 2020 6:03 AM in response to MakicaBG

And I have to delete them before that because of "private reasons", aka my misses will see something that she shouldn't.

This suggests you are sharing an Apple ID with here. Bad choice.

Change your password right now to lock her out. Get her an Apple IUD to never have the issue again.

If these photos are in the recently deleted album, there is an option accelerate this by selecting all and deleting right now. I don't believe there is this option for your scenario.

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tygb

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May 24, 2020 9:44 AM in response to MakicaBG

You should not turn off the boxes for photos application / and the iCloud back if you did , it will be removed from the iPhone but yet not deleted from the server ( thats the reason dimmed trash box icon is shown )

Once again back up the iCloud data https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT203977

And you will see all photos will reappear in icloud.com and iPhone .

And if you don't want to keep photos in icloud.com erase permanently from the iCloud.com , delete them if there are massive photos hold shift key select the first photo and then the last one ( select photos in less numbers and click on delete ) , they will be moved in recently deleted folder .

Again select all photos , click on delete button on Mac keypad , and again click on delete , the photos are immediately erased from the server .

You can also delete the photos permanently from an iPhone https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205856

You are sharing an Apple ID and password with your friend , whatever iCloud activities are done on your phone are visible to her change your Apple ID and password see these https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202667

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201355

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