Q: Delete single photos in photostream

Photostream uselessness is absolutely hilarious! Honestly, the developers thought that people would want every image acquired over a 30 day period to be synced across every device someone ownes without the ability to select, edit, or otherwise manage the images?!?!? Who would want that? I've now got endless crappy photos mixed up with a few great ones and I can't seperate the two! It took me almost two minutes of playing with the program to realize its obvious shortcomings...I would hope the writers of the software caught on as well and that leaves Apple pushing a product that their own developers know isn't ready to be pushed! And this "go use a beta version" solution is equally hilarious. What sort of obvious issues that are potentially even more damaging or infuriating are present there? Way easier to just turn the **** thing off and e-mail pics to myself.

"Photostream uselessness is absolutely hilarious! Honestly, the developers thought that people would want every image acquired over a 30 day period to be synced across every device someone ownes without the ability to select, edit, or otherwise manage the images?!?!? Who would want that? I've now got endless crappy photos mixed up with a few great ones and I can't seperate the two! It took me almost two minutes of playing with the program to realize its obvious shortcomings...I would hope the writers of the software caught on as well and that leaves Apple pushing a product that their own developers know isn't ready to be pushed! And this "go use a beta version" solution is equally hilarious. What sort of obvious issues that are potentially even more damaging or infuriating are present there? Way easier to just turn the **** thing off and e-mail pics to myself."

Am I glad they're adding selective delete from Photo Stream?  Of course I am.

Are there relatively effective workarounds to avoid the problems/annoyances you're having?  Yes, but you might actually have to spend time reading the thread to find them.  Just about everything that bothers you already has a solution, whether it's elegant or not.  Here's a hint....  start by turning off iPhoto automatic import and export to/from Photo Stream on your OS X devices.

By "work-around" do you mean like e-mailing them to yourself? Every solution to the problem I've read seems a lot more irritating than that, especially given the iphoto functionality. And then you're not limited by the 30day arbitrary window. And yeah, turning off the program is exactly what I did...if you had spent the time reading my post you'd know that. Did you have an actual point James or should I comtinue speculating as to why my criticisms of a teribly written program caused you such butt-hurt?

The basic fact are:

At present photo stream does not allow individual photos to be deleted from the stream.

Apple are likely to add this to the next point update as it is already in beta.

Until then, if you need this feature and can't use the beta, disable photostream on your devices.

You don't have to use it, no one is forcing it on anyone. I'm happy with it at the moment knowing any photos will go in the stream and appear on my iPad, Mac iPhoto and my iPhone. My solution, try not to take any photos of my Willie with my iPhone, and always lock my phone and iPad. Keep a seperate 8mp SLR for taking photos of my Willie (I know I have to sync it the old fashioned way, but at least my private photos are safe!)

"You don't have to use it, no one is forcing it on anyone."

I'd argue that not letting you remove it from the sidebar is a form of forcing it on you.

I'm pretty much over it though...disabled it will stay.

wberkeleyk wrote:

 

I'd argue that not letting you remove it from the sidebar is a form of forcing it on you.

What sidebar?  On Finder?

I believe I have a working, if not elegant, solution:

- Turn off PhotoStream on all your devices and delete from iCloud

- Turn it all back on

- Open in iPhoto the "Last 12 Months" (this also contains your PS photos)

- Delete the photos that you don't want

- Drag the ones you do want back to PS

Thank you all for your passionate pleas to Apple for a 'delete' button. And how about this: the option to allow PS to apply to a photo, or not? This could be a variation of 'Share' (i.e. share with Facebook, Twitter, etc. or your own devices).

And yes, I miss "Save as", too. (but that's another thread...)

Yeah, it totally S****, and its useless, but isn't there a fix coming with the new OS?

Can't believe there is such a fundamental oversight!! Just copied a private picture to the upload folder on my pc and now can't get rid!!! iCloud account subsequently deleted from IPad and IPhones. Samsung starting to look good!

Lived 46 years without iCloud.  Turned it off.  Never miss it.  More annoying that I get these email alerts! ;-)

No need to delete iCloud, just switch off Photostream on all your devices.

Hiya, I tried this first but the photo was superglued there every time I turned photo stream back on. Not sure if you have tried this? I understand it goes after 30 days anyway.

Parts of iCloud are very useful in terms of notes, contacts and appointments sync so will miss it!

Well don't turn it (Photostream) back on then!  Use all the other parts of iCloud without it.  Simple.

Don't think we'll solve it here but oTher people in family have access to IPad so if they decide to turn it back...but ultimately we are debating a workaround for an ill-conceived feature...who needs it so they

can't delete a photo!!!

OK, I take your point.  It's likely that this functionality - deleting photos - will be in a future version of iCloud.