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I need to delete a ton of photos and videos on my iPad 7th gen. How do I do this yet keep them on my other two ipad

Need to permantly delete a ton of photos and pictures from my 7th gen iPad yet keep all of them on my other two iPads

iPad, iPadOS 13

Posted on Aug 22, 2020 3:45 PM

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Posted on Aug 22, 2020 4:19 PM

If you use iCloud Photo to sync photos across your devices, when you delete a photo on one device, it will delete on all devices.


If you don't care if photos from your other devices come over to the iPad, you can go to Settings > Your Name, iCloud, iTunes & App Store > iCloud and turn off iCloud Photos on the iPad ONLY. This will not impact your other devices which have photos on them. Then on the iPad you can delete what you want without deleting from anything else.

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Aug 22, 2020 4:19 PM in response to thaddeus259

If you use iCloud Photo to sync photos across your devices, when you delete a photo on one device, it will delete on all devices.


If you don't care if photos from your other devices come over to the iPad, you can go to Settings > Your Name, iCloud, iTunes & App Store > iCloud and turn off iCloud Photos on the iPad ONLY. This will not impact your other devices which have photos on them. Then on the iPad you can delete what you want without deleting from anything else.

I need to delete a ton of photos and videos on my iPad 7th gen. How do I do this yet keep them on my other two ipad

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