Delete single photos in photostream

Hey i've got a solution for this and it worked with me

To Reset your Photo Stream, follow these instructions:

1. From a computer browser, go to www.icloud.com and sign in.
2. Click on your name on the iCloud home page (this is the page that shows all the app icons). If you do not see your name, click the cloud icon in the top left of the page.
3. Click Advanced.
4. Here you will see the Reset Photo Stream button. Clicking this button will remove all your Photo Stream photos from iCloud. Once removed, they cannot be recovered, but you can re-upload any photos you'd like to restore to your Photo Stream from a Mac or PC.

Plz answer if you tried this.

Good points well made.

One more annoying consequence of this feature is that iPhone screen shots also get sent to Photostream. I assume iPad screenshots do too.

It was great to see Safari page of my wifes surprise weekend break displayed for her on the iPad.

I wasn't even aware that I'd mistakingly screenshot it.

Not much of a surprise for her now, but it was a huge one for me.

Photostream sounded great, but sadly it's now OFF.

There are two things here. 1) Using the stream as a tool to wirelessly place photos on certain devices as an alternative to teathering devices together. 2) Using the stream as an album that you would view for entertainment or to showcase your photos.

It seems to me that for now, as it currently exists, the Photostream is more useful in the former use case than in the second. I personally just think of the stream as a way to look at all of the recent photos I have taken on all of my devices, good pictures or bad pictures. It's just a temporary album of the most recent (30 days/ 1000 pics) pictures I have taken that is flowing by (like a stream) and I can view this stream and pull out of it any pictures that I want to add to my library. .... A pretty awesome feature, if you ask me.

I have pretty good habits of immediatly deleting bad pictures right after I have taken them. It would be nice if you could have a preference to set the amount of time you have between taking a shot and when it gets sent to the cloud. Fifteen minutes would be fine for me. Maybe some people would want it to be shorter or longer. I have done some experimenting and I have found that if I IMMEDIATELY delete the photo ( within 10 seconds) it will not end up in the Photostream. If I wait about 30 or 40 seconds, it is too late, it's in the stream. Not really enough time.

There is definatly some great potential for Photostream. I think its pretty cool as it exists. My advice would be to just think of it as a photo dispersion tool and not as a album to use to showcase your photos - not yet at least.

-Eli

Apple will either give people the ability to delete single photos from the stream or this great feature will fast become a lame one. Also if a photos is edited or cropped on any device the changes should be aplied to the photo in the stream. A choice should be given to save a new copy or edit original. This is a no brainer. I'm sure Apple will do it. Everyone should get 20 gigs for free too. Seriously they must realize people do not want 50 bills a month for all this minutiae and conectivity garbage, especially after already paying for a phone biil with a data plan and an expensive phone.

Get it right Apple.

This is a must.

I dont care what the current limitations are.

They must add these changes.

Having the stream be availabe on Facebook would be nice too, once these changes are applied. If Apple and FB could play nice together of course.

it looks as though photoStream was just pushed out before any reaonsable management tools had been integrated into it ... once those tools have been added, i agree that it will be a very useful feature ...

i haven't tried it yet, but it looks like maybe the "airplane mode" method is the best way to manage photoStream for now -- but that's still pretty clunky ... i'll probably wait until an offical fix has been issued ...

i just hope i don't end up waiting as long as i've waited for an option to add 'forward delete' and/or arrow keys to the ipad virtual keyboard 🙂 ...

seriously though, in addition to the usability issues (and in spite of the benefit-of-doubt that i gave at the beginning of this reply), i do worry a little bit that this is a situation where apparent oversights were left unresolved in an attempt to prep users for "the new way of using computers and devices" --> easing users into the idea that it should be considered natural and reasonable to allow their information to be scattered automatically/instantly to the four corners of the earth and back with no option for user pre-confirmation and with no good way for the user to effectively manage it after-the-fact ...

I'm probably missing something glaringly obvious, but this thought occurred to me: yes, it's inconvenient not to be able to selectively edit your photos on the photostream to remove unwanted content. However, as I understand it, this photostream doohickey only works over wifi. So, if away from your normal location and you are taking photos just make sure wifi is off or you're out of wifi range (very easy here in the UK - not tripping over public wifi signals every 2 minutes). You can then edit / remove any unwated images before you next enable wifi.

This is not a perfect solution by any means. It wouldn't fix the issues like surprise weekends away screenshots showing up since chances are you're on your own home network when you do this. Nor would it stop that photo of a semi-naked <<insert celebrity here>> being synced to all your iOS and Mac OS devices if done when connected. And you really don't want to be taking photos of your illicit liason! In this litigious age I wonder how long it'll be before someone tries suing Apple after a divorce is caused / a child is shocked by inappropriate content on the photstream.

To be honest, when I first read about photostream I don't remember reading that it would also upload any images you download from the internet / save from an email or screenshots of your iOS device. Personally I don't class those as 'photographs' and I'm sure it was marketed as "photostream stores your last 1000 or 30 days of photographs". It didn't say "images". To me a photograph is something I deliberately take with the camera. But maybe I'm being picky.

Mainly because I get a decent data plan I tend to have my wifi off on my phone most of the time, only enabling it to use the Apple TV Remote so it's not a big issue here.

But, there's the temporary solution anyway - keep wifi off unless you need it. OK, we now have Find My Friends insisting wifi be on to improve accuracy which muddies the waters a bit more, but wifi off will still help ease the photostream issues.

After scanning the posts again before submitting this, I suppose this is similar to the "airplane mode" suggested but with the added benefit of still being able to receive calls if required.

I agree this is an issue. The best solution in my point of view....don't sync to Photostream until I ask you to. Even if they give me the ability to delete individual photots from photo stream it would be a ton of extra work, because I'd have to delete them all from camera roll and photostream. I'd rather just have a button "Send to photostream" in the camera roll that I could click when I'm ready to upload.

Turning photostream on and off is an uneccessary pain to achieve this.

I suggest everyone who wants the ability to selectively delete images from Photo Stream will tell the folks about it, who can actually change something:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html

I just did.

Yes, it worked, thank you. If you read the "help" part of iCloud, when you are in iCloud, it tells you what to do.

I understand now.

I thought Photostream was a feature. Turns out it's a gimmick.

It works pretty well as a gimmick.

My opinions - really for Apple to read rather than to help anyone here.

Photostream is unusable without the ability to remove photos from it. Clutter and privacy being the most obvious reasons why.

Apple, please sor this out soon. You should be able to delete from any device and doing so removes them from all devices.

For example, I just did a small photo-shoot - 200 shots to get 10 good ones. All 200 have been uploaded to the stream (from Aperture), cluttering it with crap.

The 10 I kept I made some adjustments to. These adjustments dont automatically show in the stream, making it even worse.

While I'm at it, there doesn't seem to be a way to stop the upload either. 2 hours later I'm still having all my Internet bandwidth hogged by PhotoStreamAgent. The REALLY annoying this is the fact that it's still uploading versions to the stream that I've deleted in the original folder in Aperture.

All in all, the only thing it's good for is to get snaps taken on the phone to your computer quickly, but that has its privacy problems. So, the bottom line is that it's useless in my opinion.

The more people who like this post, the more attention it will get and maybe Apple will take notice.

Greetings,

You can't - PhotoStream is only a holding place for your flicks, after 30 days they go away, and you can only have 1000 flicks in the Stream, at one time.

They are still in your Camera Roll, and iPhoto. PhotoStream is for moving your photos across all of your iOS devices, and computers, if you want to. It also gives you 30 days to keep the ones you want to keep, ignore the ones you don't want, and then nuke the whole PhotoStream.

It's handy as your flicks are on all your devices, for you to do with what you want. I use it a lot, with my phone, and along with EyeFi for my DSLR's. I take a lot of flicks, and this is another nice feature for the iPhone.

Cheers,

M.

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Hello,

Let's just talk about AppleTV for a moment. PhotoStream is there on AppleTV so you can show your family and friends your photos while sitting in your living room. However, you don't want to show them junk photos. I understand your point about it being just a holding area, but AppleTV is a little different. AppleTV is not a personal device like an iPhone or your MacBook. It is an entertainment device that allows you to share content with family and friends. They need to give you the ability to delete photos from the PhotoStream or I'll never use my AppleTV to show people PhotoStream photos.

Thanks.

-Brett

But you don't have to use Photostream, you can easily pick the ones you want and make an album out of them then show the photos in the album. You don't have to show them solely from Photostream. In fact, prior to ios 5, the only way you could show them directly on AppleTV was from an album or event. I suppose the other alternative is to use airplay and just show the ones you want. Or copy them all to the camera roll then delete there and show them from the camera roll rather than photostream.

I will admit it's taking me some time to figure out how to handle photos now that photostream is a possibility. I do like the fact that I don't have to do a tethered sync, etc. in order to get my photos between devices for quick reiview and display. Otherwise, I still end updoing the same as I've always done once they're in iPhoto - editing and deleting then filing in an album or event.

Clearly, you can't use Photostream as the sole display source for all the reasons everyone has noted. But it has its uses once I get my head wrapped around it!

peace, Scott

Yes, I never said I wasn't going to use AppleTV for my photos. I know how to create albums on my Mac and stream them to Apple TV. I also know how to use AirPlay. I've owned the first and second generation Apple TV. I've been using AppleTV for over 3 years now. I simply said that I would not use PhotoStream to share my photos on AppleTV until they allow me to remove some of the unwanted photos. That's it. That's the only point I was making.

Thanks,

Brett