Delete single photos in photostream

Thanks for the link to resetting the Photo Stream!

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We need to be able to delete single photos from PS.

AAPL: Please fix this!

I use my photo stream as a simple way to have my taken photos on my iDevices synced with the Mac. So if you have taken a bad picture just open iPhoto or Aperture and delete it on the project which it appears. Of course that on the Photo Stream Album it is still there but if you use only the Projects then you can select which photos you want.

As to those who use the Photo Stream as an Apple Tv screensaver, i don't know if it is possible but if you can use an Album for such thing you should be able to use Projects as well, so use them and no more unwanted photos appear.

Another way to work this around is to create your own Photo Stream. Create a Smart Album with all the Projects resultant from the Photo Stream synchronization and there you can choose which photos appear as well.

Hope this helps.

One step forward, two steps back.

Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow.

Apparently this feature is coming with iOS 5.1 (scroll down to the section on 5.1):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history#iOS_5.x:_fifth_major_OS_release

Simply by using the term "fanboy", which has become the rallying cry for the uneducated, you have singled yourself out as one whose opinion is of no value.

You are suffering from a blind hatred because it's cool.

Fanboy is a 90's term and does not describe anyone using an Apple product.

You don't get to be the most valuable company on the planet ever simply by having a few fanboys in your corner.

Grow up man, you sound like a moron.

@mccobbell I'm impressed by your complete lack of a sense of humor. It's astonishing, really.

ALSO (more on topic), this is a strange oversight on Apple's part. I mean, what were they thinking?

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Bet your a right laugh in the boozer :-)

Do you know if you turn PS off, change you socks, visit your granny then turn it back on again it will delete the offending image. I will be gutted if they fix this in the next update because it's the only time my granny gets to see me ....

Yea, thats a big problem with the photostream. Single picture upload or delete will be a hit. BTW for time being, just turn off the photostrem on your iDevices, But if you really want selected pictures on iCloud specially to see them on apple tv, Just go to iPhoto on your Mac Make a dedicated folder named as iCloud, put all the selected pictures in that folder & share it on photostream. Only thats how you can keep the pictures you want on iCloud. You can se all the pictures on idevices too but after seeing them turn off photostream again if you don't wanna mess up your iCloud album. Note: once the pictures are on iCloud, you still can't manage it one by one. Again to delete the photostream pictures, you need to login icloud.com & proceed the procedure as Keki36 mentioned

keki36

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.

Thanks.

You are right. Photostream is useless to me without being able to delete certain photos that I do not want all over everywhere. I have discovered I just can't use it. The person who suggested turning on Airplane Mode made a good suggestion. But, this is the one issue that this Apple person of 28 years will stop thinking Apple rules the world with only wonderful things!

Select each photo you want to keep from photo stream(select it) and move it to Camera Roll, doing this one by one. After you have selected the ones that you wanted and have moved them to Camera Roll, then go to Settings, turn off Photo Stream. Then you will see Photo Stream entirely gone, and you will have saved the ones you wanted in Camera Roll. I do not save the pictures to icloud, so I don't know how this will effect the outcome after you back up to the cloud again....the cloud is named properly....mighty hazy on that subject....will try to master that in the future.

Thank you for coming back with this solution. It is a good one. I do use iCloud... but I will work on that also. (smile) Have a good weekend.

Here is the answer you all want about Photostream. If you have it selected on, your pictures will go to the cloud for thirty days, and will remain on your phone in Photostream and also will be in Camera Roll. If you turn Photostream off, select the bright red Delete Photos at the bottom of the screen. Leave Photostream off. When you go back to your photo albums, Photostream is gone and so are your pictures. But if you select Photostream back on again, the pictures arrive back on your phone. So this is what you do if you want to keep several of your Photostream pictures for good and get rid of the rest.

1. Select the Photostream album.

2. Tap on the picture you like and want to keep.

3. Hit the lower left swirl arrow and it will give you a choice of what you want to do. Save it to Camera Roll, or wherever you want it to go. Do this to each picturre each you want to keep. Now you have a permanent picture on your phone in Camera Roll, but you can easily delete pictures from Camera Roll at any time, with no cloud involvement.

4. Turn off the Photostream option and select Delete Photos.

5. Now go to your computer, login to icloud.com Now, look up in the upper right hand corner and click on your username.

6. Select Advanced. Choose to reset contents of Photostream, which will delete ALL photos in your Photostream holding account, and resets it to zero, the maximum I believe to be 1000. They are gone.

7. Just to make sure, go back to your iphone and reselect Photostream on.

8. Now go to photos, and you will Photostream on with just a puffy cloud, no photos. They are gone for good, but you have the ones you wanted safely in your Camera Roll.

Not a perfect method, but the best I can see on how to handle this feature on your iipads and iphones.

Not sure if this helps anyone, but i recently discovered a bit of a work around untill Apple releases iOS 5.1. I have an app called Camera+, that has a feature called, lightbox. It is a sort of "holding room" for photos taken with Camera+. Anyway, the photos don't go into Photostream unless they are added to your Camera Roll, and they aren't added to you Camera roll untill you manually chose for them to be in the Lightbox. So you could take a bunch of photos, fix them, enhance them or not. They will collect in your Lightbox. Then when you are done - you can easily go through and tap the photos you want to save to your camera roll. Then only those will be synced to photostream.

I agree, nothing shoud be this complicated.