Delete single photos in photostream

Took a photo of my d**k to tease my wife and wupti, it was on the iPad, my sons iPod, Apple tv!! Tried frantically to delete this photo but no chance. Ended up resetting photostream!

Apple, you have to enable deleting single photos from photo stream 😊

This is the biggest PITA. Apple for such a big win to have such a huge flaw - it's a miss - and that is something i am frankly not used to from Apple...

Please fix soon - or i may have to sell a share or two...😠

Apple, please fix this soon. I'm trying to snap photos of engagment rings to send to my family for help and it's getting old switching Wifi on and off (so they don't PhotoStream sync). I've already messed up twice and I don't want my girlfriend accidentally picking up my iPad and seeing a ring on there.

Thanks

Being able to delete photos seems like a no-brainer. Otherwise, I'm not fully understanding why this is so great.

Apple, please implement this. And if not, please tell us why

Thanks

Apple isnt stupid, they are about money. The problem will be "fixed" in an update and people will cheer for Apple being so smart to do something they could've done from the beginning. Its a way to get the most buck out of this new system. Yes its free but if you can delete pictures you can free up space, and if you can't you will need more iCloud space and THAT is where the money is. Apple isn't dumb for not adding this, they are just business smart... your interest will come in down the line.

Couple points to make:

1). Apple never does anything wrong. For instance if the antenna does not work when you hold your phone hand, that is not a problem to be fixed - you should simply levitate the phone with telekinesis. If you do not have telekinesis, you should and evolve to have it. Similarly, not putting a delete photo from stream feature when 99% people who actually USE the product want it... well 99% of people are just being ignorant.

2). Do you know how much effort that would be to add the delete individual photo feature?!! It would take tons of money and tons of time, like almost 50 bucks and 15minutes. This clearly is not in anyones best interest to invest such a huge amount of time fixing something that a small portion of users (almost all) want.

3). If you don't want a blurry photo to propogate unto all your devices - then don't take blurry pictures, ever!

4). If you are having fun and take a pic that accidentally gets uploaded - that is your fault for having a life and trying to have fun. In fact, the products are not meant to be either fun or functional - merely cool. See the commercials for reference. More to the point. Having fun and taking picture you later want to delete may mean you are not putting sufficient effort into tryign to be cool by owning an Apple product and may be a violation of Apple EULA

5). Apple products "just work ... well, sortof... depends on what your definition of work is"

GoldenHorn wrote:

Yes its free but if you can delete pictures you can free up space, and if you can't you will need more iCloud space and THAT is where the money is. Apple isn't dumb for not adding this, they are just business smart... your interest will come in down the line.

Sorry, but you are way off there. Photostream space is not part of your iCloud allocation at all. Whatever you use on PS is extra and free.

Apple please fix this. I would really like to delete photos I don't want to be in the Photo Stream.

Yes Apple!! Please fix this ASAP it really ***** the way it is now...

What is a good example of "something" you've taken a picture of that you don't want to share with the world? ;-)

Not sure if this solution has already been posted, but as of "now" (Nov. 27th, 2011), you can go into iPhoto and select Preferences-->Photostream and uncheck a box that says, "Automatic Upload" (Send all new photos to Photostream). However, in an attempt to delete a single photo, I turned off Photostream on my Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and delete the Photostream photos from these devices, but when I enable it again it downloads them all again. This is ridiculous. Overall, iCloud is impractial as a file management system across the boards. Amazon is much better as it actually allows users to manage their files.

I found this thread because I wanted to delete a single photo too. I'm sorry to hear that its not (yet) possible.

As soon as I thought a bit about the problem I realised it was more complicated than I first thought. So I thought I'd share my thinking if it helps explain maybe why PS can't delete photos. I don't have any inside info and I could be totally wrong.

The whole point of photostream is to create a seamless transfer of images between devices as quickly as possible with no user input needed.

Once you've established that goal you prioritise the speed of upload and no user intervention.To realise the goal of almost instant transfer up to the cloud and then back to other devices as soon as a photo is taken, the iDevice which took the image trys to start synching the photo immediately to the cloud if Wifi is on and connected. It doesn't wait for permission or kick up a dialogue box and you wouldn't want it to. That seamless, no user input necessary synching is what makes the service so nice most of the time.

But given those 2 priorities how do you stop a photo from uploading to the cloud? I don't see how you can do it without violating the original priorities. It's a tradeoff between contradictory needs.

A prioity of the cloud part of iCloud is that it's a synching system and there isn't a file repository that anyone can actually visit and manipulate, its not dropbox or a "locker" where you can just take a peek into your folder in the cloud. If that's what you want, then iCloud is not designed to meet your needs. You need to go elsewhere. Those services have different priorities, they don't try to immediately synch up a series of devices.

iCloud is about seamless invisible (to the user) synching between devices. It's not a user adressable storage area in the sky. And that means there's no way to go into iCloud itself to delete the photo.

So now you have your (unwanted) photo in the cloud and iCloud's immediate task is to synch it to all permitted devices ASAP again without user intervention. So the photo is downloaded immediately to any permitted devices which are connected to a wifi network. There's no evident way that I can think of to interrupt that process given the design goals of no user input needed for seamless synching.

Another question I thought about is which device "owns" the right to delete the photo? Only the device which took the photo? That would make a complicated scenario as iCloud held images from various devices where the image might be needeed or used by others.

Should any user of any device be able to remove images in the PS? How would that work?

Can someone's 3 year old child just delete a bunch of family prized photos by accident?

Can someone at work delete key photos that someone sharing with them still needs?

Can someone delete a photo on one device that's being viewed on another device?

I know that synching is a very complicated challenge for coders so just maybe it's not that easy to code and develop a set of heuristics to handle all the potential complications. Maybe at the risk of delaying all of iOS 5, they moved solving the problem into either an update or version 6. Nobody ever produces perfect software, these kinds of decisions have to be made all the time by engineers and admin at Apple or Google or Twitter or Amazon, etc in order to actually get a product out.

Message was edited by: All Day Breakfast. Tried to be clearer at what I was saying

Dear All Day Breakfast:

Google search Amazon Cloud Drive and see if the service that Amazon provides is more sensible and intuitive than iCloud.

Reread what I wrote and tell me if the design goals of Amazon Cloud Drive are the same as iCloud. If you'd rather use Amazon Cloud Drive you can, It's a different service. That doesn't make it more or less sensible or intuitiive than iCloud.